Biofabrication of 3D soft tissue models with a tis sue-printing technology and a biosynthetic nano cellulose Cellink
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| Coordinator | Advanced Polymer Technology Aktiebolag - Advanced Polymer Technology AB |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 2 291 192 |
| Project duration | October 2013 - March 2016 |
| Status | Completed |
Purpose and goal
The outcome of this collaborative project is a marketable package consisting of a bioprinter, Nanocellulose injectable scaffold/CELLINK and software to control motion of bioprinter. This package is offered to academic institutions, R&D departments at Hospitals and to the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industry. It offers unique possibilities to reproducible biofabricate exact copies of 3D human soft tissues such as cartilage and skin. New products developed in this project have tremendous potential for growth and as such attract investors to secure long term successful future.
Results and expected effects
The result of this project is complete package consisted of products and services available for laboratories, universities and academia. In addition the cooperation with medium and large cosmetic companies has started to replace animal studies for cosmetics with human skin models produced in the controlled conditions and giving better data for the benefits of consumers and producers of the cosmetics.
Approach and implementation
Project has started with creation of requirements specification for the future products. Based on the detailed requirements we planned the project phases and the milestones for the work-packages deliveries. We have described detailed content of the work packages and developed delivery plan. During the milestones review all 4 partners have possibility to get insight in to each other´s work and align with the plan. All 4 partners have been working autonomously, however the overall alignment through the review gates and milestones secured alignment with overall projects goals.