3D Bioprinting and Tissue Engineering Team Work

Research Unit Supervisor

	د. رائد فلمبان faraed@kau.edu.sa
Dr. Waleed Rizq Core Group Member	Dr. Walaa Alsani Core Group Member
Eng. Fuad Nadwi Core Group Member

Overview

I3D Bioprinting and Tissue Engineering is an emerging multidisciplinary field that mainly involves all health sciences plus pharmacy, electronic engineering, material and computer sciences. The 3D Bioprinting and Tissue Engineering unit usually incorporate three integral components i.e. cells, architecture, and materials in order to create personalised solutions for essential day-to-day clinical and emergency challenges.
These solutions aim not only to maintain the original human structure but to restore and maintain the function of the tissue and organs. In addition, it holds great potential for improving the health and quality of life for millions of people at risk of clinical problems such as infections, cancer, neurodegenerative disorders and trauma, in Saudi Arabia and worldwide.
The unit will imply the 3D-Bioprinting technology to create complex 3D structures that can also be constructed with living cells to create real living tissue and human parts. The produced tissues and parts are entirely functional and mimic the real human body. These bio-products are beneficial clinically as cellular/tissue replacement therapy, or they could be used in research for the testing of cosmetic, chemical, and pharmaceutical materials. In addition, these products could be used for normal and/or disease modelling and understanding normal/diseased physiological process.