Bioprinting of Human Skin In Vivo

While tissue engineering has had initial successes in building a number of tissues clinically, challenges still exist in developing complex tissue systems. One of the challenges that hamper rapid clinical translation is inefficient method of cell and biomaterials delivery. Living tissues maintain inherent multi-cellular heterogeneous structures, and rebuilding of such complex structures requires subtle arrangements of different cell types and extracellular matrices at their specific anatomical target sites. Biofabrication using an inkjet printing technology has been proposed as a tool to address this endeavor. In this session a novel and versatile method of building human tissue structures using the bioprinting technology will be discussed. Development strategies that facilitate a rapid clinical translation will also be discussed.