Ongoing Projects

The following project are undertaken at the University of Otago. For more information, please visit the external webpage here.

  1. Bioinks for Cartilage Tissue Engineering
  2. 3D-bioassembly of clinically relevant orthopaedic replacement grafts
  3. Oxygen Control in 3D-bioprinted osteochondral constructs
  4. Personalised 3D Tissue Models: Reducing Health Inequities in Cartilage Therapies

Selected Publications:

i. Soliman, B. G., Lindberg, G. C. J., Jungst, T., Hooper, G. J., Groll, J., Woodfield, T. B. F., & Lim, K. S. (2020). Stepwise control of crosslinking in a one-pot system for bioprinting of low-density bioinks. Advanced Healthcare Materials, 9, 1901544. doi: 10.1002/adhm.201901544

ii. Lindberg, G. C. J., Longoni, A., Lim, K. S., Rosenberg, A. J., Hooper, G. J., Gawlitta, D., & Woodfield, T. B. F. (2019). Intact vitreous humor as a potential extracellular matrix hydrogel for cartilage tissue engineering applications. Acta Biomaterialia, 85, 117-130. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2018.12.022

iii. Mekhileri, N. V., Lim, K. S., Brown/Lindberg, G. C. J., Mutreja, I., Schon, B. S., Hooper, G. J., & Woodfield, T. B. F. (2018). Automated 3D bioassembly of micro-tissues for biofabrication of hybrid tissue engineered constructs. Biofabrication, 10(2). doi: 10.1088/1758-5090/aa9ef1

iv. Bertlein, S., Brown/Lindberg, G., Lim, K. S., Jungst, T., Boeck, T., Blunk, T., … Hooper, G. J., Woodfield, T. B. F., & Groll, J. (2017). Thiol-ene clickable gelatin: A platform bioink for multiple 3D biofabrication technologies. Advanced Materials, 29(44), 1703404. doi: 10.1002/adma.201703404

v. Brown/Lindberg, G. C. J., Lim, K. S., Farrugia, B. L., Hooper, G. J., & Woodfield, T. B. F. (2017). Covalent incorporation of heparin improves chondrogenesis in photocurable gelatin-methacryloyl hydrogels. Macromolecular Bioscience, 17(12), 1700158. doi: 10.1002/mabi.201700158

vi. Lim, K. S., Schon, B. S., Mekhileri, N. V., Brown/Lindberg, G. C. J., Chia, C. M., Prabakar, S., Hooper, G. J., & Woodfield, T. B. F. (2016). New visible-light photoinitiating system for improved print fidelity in gelatin-based bioinks. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, 2, 1752-1762. doi: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.6b00149