Luiza Mirt, Marina Maric and Renato Matosinhos complete secondments at Ti-Com in Olsztyn, Poland, in the framework of RISE EU project EngVIPO
Three of our PhD students: Ms. Luiza Mirt, Ms. Marina Maric and Mr. Renato Matosinhos completed 1-month secondments at Ti-com, an organization based in Olsztyn, Poland, that bridges academic innovation and commercial success through large-animal clinical research. The secondments were carried out in the context of the European project Eng-VIPO – Engineering Vascularized Implants for Personalised Osteochondral Tissue Regeneration: From medical imaging to pre-clinical validation, of which our Institute (PI: Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini) is one of the academic partners.
Together with Dr Dominika Gołubczyk, specialist in ischemic stroke animal models using endovascular techniques at Ti-com, our students investigated how biomaterials, including materials that were developed in our Institute, can be applied ex vivo and studied by MRI and CT techniques, with the aim of future commercialization. The project is ongoing and will continue over the next few years, focusing on the transition from fundamental research to pre-clinical testing and market validation. The project EngVIPO has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-SE-01-01) under the Grant Agreement Number 101183041.
