Project description
Educating tomorrow’s innovators in additive manufacturing for health
Additive manufacturing, including bioprinting, is reshaping medicine. However, its full potential is still unfolding. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the Print4Life project trains early-stage researchers to master this disruptive technology, focusing on sustainable, patient-specific solutions for healthcare. Through hands-on research, industry secondments and interdisciplinary training, participants will explore biodegradable, antibacterial materials (magnesium and zinc alloys, and advanced bioinks) and 3D cell-containing models to address challenges like antimicrobial resistance. Additionally, the project equips researchers with entrepreneurial and regulatory know-how, preparing them for careers in academia, industry and policy. With its strong emphasis on innovation and sustainability, Print4Life builds a new generation of experts ready to advance biomedical science.
Objective
The programme will deliver early-stage researchers with the necessary innovative technical and entrepreneurial training to provide advances in the understanding of the possibilities and limitations of additively manufacturing advanced biomaterials as well as 3-dimensional cell-containing models for advanced biological studies. These researchers will gain the necessary subject-specific, intersectoral knowledge and the wider innovation skills demanded by industry with which to deliver timely and cost-effective solutions to some of Europe’s most imminent healthcare problems. The career options for these researchers are wide-ranging, including academia as well as regulatory affairs, commercial R&D, management and policy, all of which comprise a significant leadership and innovation component. This aim will be achieved by a unique combination of hands-on research in leading research centres, industry secondments and wide-ranging workshops covering technical and transferable skills. Additive manufacturing, including bioprinting, and its possibilities for providing patient-specific solutions to tissue defects as well as new material performances and enhanced models for biological testing has received global attention due to its disruptiveness. This means that we are still learning and it is important to educate for this. It provides immense possibilities for the global economy, and for a sustainable world in particular, allowing for less material use as well as sustainable solutions to healthcare issues and increased resilience at the European level. In this program we will focus on degradable, antibacterial materials and tissues in light of the alarmingly increasing antimicrobial resistance worldwide. Here new materials as well as new test methodologies will be researched, while ensuring that we educate for the future in the disruptive technology that is additive manufacturing.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- engineering and technology mechanical engineering manufacturing engineering additive manufacturing
- engineering and technology industrial biotechnology biomaterials
- medical and health sciences basic medicine pharmacology and pharmacy drug resistance antibiotic resistance
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN - HORIZON TMA MSCA Doctoral Networks
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01
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751 05 Uppsala
Sweden
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