We are happy to host Ksenia Menshikh and Alessandro Calogero Scalia, doctoral students at the University of Eastern Piedmont “Amedeo Avogadro” in Italy, at the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy in the Group for Biomedical Engineering.
Ksenia is engaged as an ESR at the project „Precision medicine for musculoskeletal regeneration, prosthetics, and active ageing – PREMUROSA” (GA no. 860462; https://premurosa.eu/) and works under the supervision of Prof. Lia Rimondini. Within the project, they established collaboration with Ivana Banićević, ESR at FTM and her supervisor Prof. Bojana Obradović so that joint research is planned during mutual secondments. During her stay in Belgrade, Ksenia had comprehensive training on setting up and opeartion of perfusion bioreactors for 3D in vitro cell models and transferred her knowledge and method for multicellular spheroid cultures. “So far, very fruitful and pleasurable experience! Charmed by Belgrade and the hospitality of my colleagues in the lab.”- says Ksenia.
Saradnja između različitih laboratorija i istraživačkih grupa doprinosi uzajamnom napretku i pomera granice razvoja biomaterijala ka tržištu i finalnoj primeni kod pacijenata, a to je upravo čemu stremimo u okviru ExcellMater projekta.
Alessandro is visiting FTM within the ExcellMater project with the goal to evaluate his samples based on gellan gum and different fillers intended for cartilage tissue engineering, in physiologically relevant conditions in a bioreactor with dynamic compression. About his stay, Alessandro says that he faced different challenges. Working with biomimetic bioreactors turned out to be more demanding than he expected, but he learned a lot about characterization of biomaterials under physiologically relevant conditions.
Collaboration between different laboratories and research groups contributes to mutual advancements and pushes boundaries for bringing novel biomaterials to the market and patients as final users, which is exactly what we are striving for in the ExcellMater project.
Alessandro is testing the biomimetic biorector with dynamic compression
Ksenia (in front) and Ivana (behind) are preparing a cell culture in the Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering
Alessandro and Dr. Jovana Zvicer discussing preliminary results of biomaterial characterization in the dynamic compression bioreactor
Ksenia setting up a perfusion bioreactor
