The MIC hosts THOR project partners
February 1-2, 2024, Paris
What is the link between tissue engineering, self-assembling polymeric fibers and… minirobots?
On the 1st and 2nd of February, THOR partners (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELLA CAMPANIA LUIGI VANVITELLI, and Bioactive Surfaces (BioS)) gathered in Paris, France for the project’s M12 consortium meeting to work on a strategy to tackle major problems in the shortage of organ donors.
In THOR Project EU, researchers from cell biology, tissue engineering, microfluidics and neuroanatomy propose the development of a revolutionary tissue engineering technology, capable of producing any patient-tailored tissues for organ repair or replacement.
Using self-assembling molecules, polymeric fibres and functionalisation we aim to fabricate patient-tailored tissues that will be well vascularised and fully functioning, revolutionising the field of transplantation.
What is THOR’s main use case? The construction of a functional, vascularised piece of hippocampal tissue.