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Tissue Science 2019
June 17-18, 2019
London, UK
Advances in Tissue
Engineering and
Biomaterials Science
13th Edition of International Conference on
Journal of Biomedical Sciences
ISSN: 2254-609X Page 18
3D printing and electrospinning:
Applications in drug delivery and tissue
engineering
Dimitrios A. Lamprou
Queen’s University Belfast, UK
3D printing and electrospinning are example of
technologies that have been widely used in other
industries, however are new to Pharmaceutical
Industries and for Tissue Engineering Applications.
Therefore, the use of these techniques in drug delivery
and tissue engineering, including the use of state-
of-the-art characterisation methods (e.g. Bio-AFM,
ToF-SIMS, nanoCT) will discussed in this talk. The
first part will focus on the preparation of drug-loaded
polymeric electrospun nanofibers. The purpose of this
study is to examine any potential effects, chemical and
mechanically, of drug-loaded electrospun nanofiber
scaffolds. Biopolymers that used for biomedical
applications was loaded with either antibacterial
agents or broad-spectrum antibiotics. The electrospun
fibres were characterised through various methods
in order to measure the drug efficacy, antibacterial
properties, and drug-polymer interactions. There are
a number of different applications within medicine
that require materials to be developed with the
optimal characteristics, such as their strength, rate
of degradation, and porosity, as well as their shapes
and sizes. 3D printing process patented in 1986,
however only recently have be utilised in the field of
tissue Engineering using also bioprinters. Therefore,
in the second part, 3D printed systems that have be
formulated using advanced additive technologies
and characterised using advanced characterisation
techniques will be discussed.
Biography
Dimitrios Lamprou (Ph.D., MBA) is Reader in Pharmaceutical
Engineering and MSc Programme Director at the School of
Pharmacy in Queen’s University Belfast (UK; amember of the
Prestigious Russell Group) and Visiting Researcher at Univer-
sity of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK) with experience of teaching
in Higher Education, conducting research (60+ publications,
200+ conference abstracts, 60+ Invited Presentations) and
securing national and international funding (£2M+). His
Group Research Interests focused on five distinct areas:
Biosurface Engineering, Electrospinning, Microfluidics, Nano-
analysis, and Printing of Medicines
Dimitrios A. Lamprou, J Biomedical Sci 2019, Volume 08