Project description
Building a human mini-heart in the lab
Making our own hearts is just a heartbeat away, literally. Engineers are joining forces with biologists to make biological heart-robots. The EU-funded BioRobot-MiniHeart project is developing a vascularised beating mini-heart. In parallel, the team is creating a self-propulsion swimming bio-robot that is made by assembling human cardiac cells into 3D tissue structures. To do this, they used sacrificial molding and high-resolution 3D bioprinting. The mini-heart and the bio-robot will provide scientists with a more realistic human cardiac model in vitro and an appropriate tool to assess cardiotoxicants' presence in the environment. This innovation is expected to help speed up development of heart disease cures.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybiosensing
- medical and health sciencesmedical biotechnologytissue engineering
- medical and health sciencesmedical biotechnologycells technologiesstem cells
- medical and health sciencesclinical medicinecardiologycardiovascular diseases
- medical and health sciencesbasic medicinephysiology
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.3.1 - The European Innovation Council (EIC) Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-Based
Coordinator
7522 NB Enschede
Netherlands
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Participants (3)
64293 Darmstadt
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
7522 NB Enschede
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
29016 Malaga
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