PREVASCIN

Engineering a vascularized and innervated tissue using a building block approach

 Coordinatore UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE 

 Organization address address: DRIENERLOLAAN 5
city: ENSCHEDE
postcode: 7522 NB

contact info
Titolo: Mrs.
Nome: Jacoba
Cognome: Houten-Vos
Email: send email
Telefono: +31 53 489 2444
Fax: +31 53 489 2160

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Netherlands [NL]
 Totale costo 299˙792 €
 EC contributo 299˙792 €
 Programma FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IOF
 Funding Scheme MC-IOF
 Anno di inizio 2014
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2014-08-01   -   2017-01-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE

 Organization address address: DRIENERLOLAAN 5
city: ENSCHEDE
postcode: 7522 NB

contact info
Titolo: Mrs.
Nome: Jacoba
Cognome: Houten-Vos
Email: send email
Telefono: +31 53 489 2444
Fax: +31 53 489 2160

NL (ENSCHEDE) coordinator 299˙792.40

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vascular    engineered    network    local    tissues    neural    cells    engineering    survival    shortage    integration    tissue    components   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The current ageing population is faced with an ever increasing shortage of donor tissue for the repair or replacement of damaged tissues. Tissue engineering is a promising strategy to cope with this shortage. However, even though tissue engineering has been an active field of research for several decades, the number of clinical successes is limited. This is often due to a lack of integration and survival of the engineered tissue after implantation.

PreVascIn proposes that the integration and survival of an engineered tissue can be significantly improved by including both a vascular and a neural network. Adding both a vascular and a neural network to an engineered tissue greatly enhances the complexity of this tissue. The cells forming the different tissue components each require different local environments to develop properly. This means that the local environment of individual structures need to be controlled and that current standard approaches, such as simply seeding cells within a scaffold material, are insufficient. As a better alternative approach, in this project I propose to use the ‘Living Legos’ building block system, combined with the use of matrix elasticity and local growth factor delivery to control formation of the separate tissue components. This provides a strong control of tissue development, potentially allowing for the engineering of the vascularized and innervated tissue from a single cell source, as will be investigated in this project. The development of the modular and self-assembly properties of the proposed approach has great potential to result in a highly flexible system, easily translatable to other applications and engineered tissues.'

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