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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Bioprinting: 3D Printing Body Parts
This course explored revolutionary 3D printing technologies which are being used to improve medical treatments. Learners explored real-life cases of 3D printed plastics, gels and metals for personalised prosthetics and implants, and printing live cells and potentially whole organs for transplants.
4 weeks, 2 hours per week
Gordon G. Wallace
Professor of Chemistry
University of Wollongong
Stephen Beirne
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Wollongong
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain the significance of 3D bioprinting to medical applications
- Debate the possible changes and implications that 3D bioprinting will have in the area of healthcare into the future
- Compare and evaluate the application and impact of various multidisciplinary approaches and methods for addressing existing medical problems using 3D bioprinting
- Identify, describe and compare the appropriate materials and printing methods for specific 3D structures – wearable structures to implants
- Discuss the process of designing 3D structures from determining the problem to fabrication
- Report on how 3D bioprinting raises many ethical and regulatory issues
- Reflect on the impact 3D bioprinting will have on how we treat people in the future and what current challenges will be overcome
- Explore and discuss topical and innovative bioactive research
Syllabus
- The multidisciplinary nature of clinical 3D bioprinting
- The advantages and limitations of 3D modelling software for bioprinting
- The 3D printing process (the problem, design, material selection and object fabrication)
- Case studies of biomaterials enhancing lives (e.g. Robohand, Titanium heel, glaucoma implants)
- The nature and variation of materials for prosthetics and structural supports used in 3D bioprinting
- The difference between an implant and a prosthetic
- Innovative bioactive research (e.g. cartilage, biopens, skin regeneration)
- The ethical and regulatory issues involved in new medical treatments and the future of 3D bioprinting
- Communicating with the community on matters of new medical systems
Issued on 23rd February 2017
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