The presentation will discuss recent work on the development of emulsion-templated highly porous polymeric materials as scaffolds for 3D cell culture, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine (see Figure). Features such as the pore size, degree of interconnection, porosity, mechanical properties and surface chemistry can be varied to produce materials tailored for different applications. In particular, the development of degradable materials intended for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications will be discussed. These are produced by light-activated thiol-ene network formation, which, due to the speed of cure, can be adapted to 3D printing (stereolithography) platforms. A selection of recent results from current projects focussed on a range of tissue engineering/regenerative medicine applications, including human pluripotent stem cells, human neural precursor cells, hematopoietic stem cells, osteoblastic cells and endometrial cells, will be presented.

Porous polymer scaffolds for 3D cell culture, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

256th National Meeting (2018)

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