From left: U of T Engineering researchers Professor Axel Guenther (MIE), Navid Hakimi (MIE PhD candidate) and Richard Cheng (IBBME PhD candidate) have created the first ‘skin printer’ that forms tissues in situ for application to wounds. (Credit: Liz Do)TIAM researchers have developed a handheld skin printer that enables the in situ formation of planar biomaterials and tissues.
Their research, led by Navid Hakimi (MIE PhD candidate) under the supervision of Professor Axel Guenther (MIE, IBBME), and in collaboration with Dr. Marc Jeschke, director of the Ross-Tilley Burn Centre at Sunnybrook Hospital, was recently published in the Journal Lab on a Chip.
The team believes it to be the first device that forms tissue in situ, depositing and setting in place in two minutes or less.
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