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