The team led by Prof. Jens Kurreck from TU Berlin won 3rd place in the competition for the “Hamburg Research Prize for Alternatives to Animal Experiments” and received €10,000 in funding.
The winning project “A bioprinted, physiologically relevant liver metastasis model for drug evaluation” describes the development of a human 3D bioprinted liver metastasis model. The technically innovative bioprinting process produces 3D organ models through which liquid flows. Animal components are still required in the cultivation medium, but there is great potential for further development.
The overall prize was shared between three projects, with the main winner being a joint project between Beiersdorf and the Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart, in which a three-dimensional skin model was developed. The second prize went to the working group led by Dr. Moritz Lassé from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, who are planning a systematic recording of published organoid models.
Congratulations to all the prize winners!
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