Establish a new collaboration to develop osteo-chondral and chondral grafts using novel biomaterials and perfusion bioreactors
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Manchester
Department Name: Materials
Abstract
Mexico
People |
ORCID iD |
| Sarah Cartmell (Principal Investigator) |
| Description | Dr. L. Araida Hidalgo-Bastida visited Dr. Velasquillo and her team in August 2012 at the INR, Mexico. The visit, over several days, included a tour of the facilities, meetings with managerial and research/technical staff and the delivery of talks about our research interests and the results of our BBSRC grant. We took advantage of Dr. Hidalgo's knowledge of the Mexican culture to establish a meaningful relationship with Mexican tissue engineers. Cultural issues are often a barrier when initiating international associations; moreover, proposal development can be delayed by the lack of a common language. This was not the case in this partnership as we were already familiar to the Mexican culture and the language was not a limitation. We shortened the time between the initial meeting and the submission of the grant proposal by fostering a continuous relationship by telephone and videoconferences. Both groups worked together to prepare an application for the EU Framework FP7 application that was unfortunately unsuccessful. Both groups are still interested in expanding our research interests from bone and cartilage tissue engineering into nerve tissue regeneration. We have commented in the possibilities of conduits in nerve tissue regeneration in the near future and if the cartilage project is successful, this could open the door for a nerve regeneration joint project. Furthermore, we are committed to the maximise the research impact of both groups and we think it would be only logical to develop an international workshop on cartilage regeneration and bioreactors, for which we intend to apply to a BBSRC International workshops grant. This potential collaboration enabled us to use the existent stem cells seeding by perfusion bioreactor platform developed with our current BBSRC funding and translate it into cartilage regeneration technology. The proposed collaboration has built a bridge between UK and Mexican science to help sustain excellence in tissue engineering research. |
| Exploitation Route | N/A |
| Sectors | Healthcare |
| Description | ?Establish a new collaboration to develop osteo-chondral and chondral grafts using novel biomaterials and perfusion bioreactors |
| Organisation | National Rehabilitation Institute |
| Country | Peru |
| Sector | Hospitals |
| PI Contribution | Visit of PDRA Dr Araida Hidalgo to Dr Velasquillo, head of the UITTC, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE REHABILITACION. Dissemination of our UK BBSRC funded research to Mexican researchers |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dr Velasquillo disseminated her research to Dr Araida Hidalgo and translated this information back to the UK |
| Impact | Application to host joint training workshop for international students (unsuccessful in funding) |
| Start Year | 2012 |