The focus areas dMESH at SCERG and pMESH at 2BRG operate
synergistically to foster collaborative research at Tagus Park and
Alameda.
Aligned with SCERG mission, dMESH contributes to develop advanced health and food products, fostering the fields of
(i) additive manufacturing and biomaterials, developing new stimuli responsive biomaterials, nanoparticles, scaffolds, and bioinks for the regeneration of bone, cartilage, osteochondral, neural, cardiac, among other tissues as well as wireless strategies for regenerative and cancer therapies;
(ii) modelling and machine learning/artificial intelligence approaches to generate digital twins of novel bioreactors, scaffolds, devices and processes and
(iii) sustainable development of cellular agriculture, including optimization studies on fish tissue formation and bioreactor-based processes, designing novel vegan and edible scaffolds, bioinks, microcarriers, and structured food; and exploiting electrical and physical stimulation to enhance tissue maturation.
Ongoing and past dMESH’s projects are on cell agriculture, bioreactors, vascularization, cancer therapies, and neural and osteochondral regeneration.
Laboratories:
Sustainable Tissue Engineering, Materials and Processes (STEM-P) (PI: Frederico Ferreira)
Bioreactor and Biomaterial Technologies for Stem Cell Manufacturing Lab (PI: Carlos Rodrigues)
Bioelectronics for Cancer Therapies (PI: Paola Alberte)
Biomimetic and Functional Regenerative Biomaterials (PI: João Silva)
dMESH team: