[Webinar]: 3D Bioprinting Complex Tissue Models for Drug Screening

For the fourth installment of our webinar series, we welcomed a member of our Discovery Ecosystem: Dr. Stephanie Willerth, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Victoria. The Willerth lab focuses on innovative strategies for engineering neural tissue.

This talk covered recent work from the Willerth lab on developing 3D tissue models using microfluidic 3D bioprinting. It also discussed how these bioprinted constructs containing multiple cell types could be an important tool in drug screening. 

Missed our previous webinars? Watch the recordings here for May, June & July.

 

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Presenter - Stephanie Willerth, PHD

Professor and Canada Research Chair, Biomedical Engineering, University of Victoria

Dr. Willerth, a Full Professor in Biomedical Engineering, holds a Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Victoria where she has dual appointments in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Division of Medical Sciences. She also holds an appointment with the School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of British Columbia. She serves as the Acting Director of the Centre for Biomedical Research and the Biomedical Engineering undergraduate program at the University of Victoria. She is an active member of the steering committee of the B.C. Regenerative Medicine Initiative and the Stem Cell Network. She also serves as a staff scientist at Creative Destruction Lab. She is the co-founder of the start-up Axolotl Biosciences.

Learn more about the Willerth lab here.

Erin Bedford, Head of the Discovery Ecosystem & Product Manager, Aspect Biosystems

Moderator - Erin Bedford, PhD

Head of the Discovery Ecosystem & Product Manager

As Head of the Discovery Ecosystem & Product Manager at Aspect Biosystems, Erin oversees the technical and application support for researchers using our RX1™ bioprinting platform. Erin received her PhD in nanotechnology engineering from the University of Waterloo and the Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) in Paris.