Projects

The digital printing of artificial tissues for medical, pharmaceutical or biotechnological applications is one of the central challenges of modern bio-hybrid manufacturing processes, which are becoming increasingly important economically. By standardizing materials, processes and quality control methods, the performance and reproducibility of existing processes can be improved and the quality of the products optimized. The aim of the DoD-BioPrint research project is to increase the comparability of different 3D-bioprinting systems and thus to improve the overall reproducibility of 3D-bioprinting processes. Based on a uniform and intensively characterized reference bioink, important technical characteristics and the performance of different drop-on-demand printing systems are experimentally investigated by means of standardized processes and a standardized design of experiments. An interlaboratory test will generate a data basis for subsequent standardization activities. First proposals for the standardization of the methodology will be developed in the project. Furthermore, an autonomous optical measuring module for the standardized measurement and evaluation of the printing results will be developed and made available for the interlaboratory test.