Growing artificial tissue using a 3D printer

Aleksandr Ovsianikov from TU Wien has been awarded his second ERC grant. He is developing methods for artificially creating biological tissue. It is one of the great hopes of modern medicine: to create tissue artificially in order to heal wounds or perhaps, one day, even to recreate entire organs. Thanks to new materials and modern methods for processing living cells, this goal is increasingly close to becoming a reality. Aleksandr Ovsianikov from the Institute of Materials Science and Technology is developing new technology for creating tissue, which combines the key advantages of existing techniques for the first time. Using a 3D printer, minute structures can be created containing tissue components that are each made up of many cells. Aleksandr Ovsianikov has now been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant for this development - one of the most lucrative research grants in Europe.