HP-NTU Corp Lab TechTalk: Bio-ink development for 3D bioprinting applications

HP-NTU Digital Manufacturing Corporate Lab is pleased to have Dr Ng Wei Long, Research Assistant Professor with our Corp Lab, to share at the next TechTalk session. He will be sharing on bio-ink development for 3D bioprinting applications. 

About the speaker:
Dr. Ng Wei Long is a Research Assistant Professor at HP-NTU Digital Manufacturing Corporate Lab; his research interests include bio-ink development and fabrication of in-vitro 3D human tissue models. Prior to his current appointment, he worked as a Research Fellow at the Singapore Centre of 3D Printing (SC3DP) and HP-NTU Digital Manufacturing Corporate Lab. Wei Long was awarded the A*STAR Graduate Scholarship (AGS) and received his Ph.D. from School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE), NTU in 2018.

Synopsis:
Three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting is a highly-automated system that facilitates the deposition of biomaterials and cells at pre-defined positions to fabricate complex 3D tissue constructs. The bio-ink used in the bioprinting process can be defined as a printable cell-supporting material and one of the existing challenges in the field of 3D bioprinting is the limited choice of printable bio-inks. In this talk, I will first discuss the limitations of existing bio-inks, highlight the important requirements for bio-inks and present some of my recent works on bio-ink development for 3D bioprinting applications.