Our goals
- Design of novel bio-inspired self-assembling biomaterials for fabrication of a biomimetic extracellular matrix (ECM)
- Injectable scaffolds with motifs for cell binding for chondrogenesis
- “Smart” materials that warn for possible infection of the biomaterial
- Fabrication of biomaterials resistant to metabolites of “personal” microbiome
- Development of protocols for isolation and characterization of stem cells
- Production of a micro-bioreactor for studies on the effect of metabolites of microbiome on the biomaterials
- In vivo studies in small animals with osteoarthritis by injection of the novel biomaterial