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Bioprinting breakthroughs

August 13, 2025

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Lorelei Mason

A small team of Otago researchers has a bold ambition: to bioprint harvested human stem cells, enabling orthopaedic surgeons to repair damaged bone joints using a patient’s own cells – and that dream is now within reach.

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Founded in 2008, the Christchurch Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering (CReaTE) group, sits within the University of Otago, Christchurch’s, Department of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Medicine.

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Led by Bioengineering Professor and CReaTE Director Tim Woodfield, the group’s research has gone from strength to strength – developing bioinks for 3D bioprinting functional tissues and selling those bioink kits and their tech to international research groups and biotech companies. Most recently the group was chosen as an international partner in a major European Union (EU) HORIZON-funded consortia project focused on advancing 3D bioprinting and regenerative medicine.

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