KeratOPrinter took part in the 35th Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB 2026), held in Antwerp, Belgium, from 7 to 11 September 2026, the year the society marked its 50th anniversary.
On 10 September, project coordinator Prof. Heli Skottman of Tampere University presented the project's latest progress in the EU Cluster Session, which brought together EU-funded bioprinting projects and a representative of the European Commission. Her talk was titled "Towards Clinically Relevant Bioprinted Human Corneas: Progress and Perspectives from the KeratOPrinter Project".
The session, chaired by Bart Spee, Giulia Leonetti and Giovanni Vozzi, covered a wide range of tissues: bioprinted liver constructs for transplantation, a platform for patterning cellular aggregates into macroscale regenerative grafts, in situ 4D bioprinting for colorectal mucosa from the TENTACLE project, and light-guided biofabrication for osteochondral regeneration from the LUMINATE project. The tissues differ, but many of the challenges are shared, from guiding how cells behave to producing constructs that can be handled and implanted. Bringing those projects into one room is what clustering is for.
Prof. Skottman was also invited to give a keynote lecture in the session "In Vitro, In Vivo, and Preclinical Evaluation of Biomaterials", titled "From Stem Cells to Ocular Repair: Biomaterials for Differentiation, 3D Bioprinting and Clinical Translation".
We thank the session chairs, all the speakers and our sister projects for a productive exchange, and look forward to continuing the collaboration.
KeratOPrinter at ESB 2026: EU Cluster Session and keynote in Antwerp
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