REMIX · Regenerative Medicine Innovation Crossing - Research and Innovation Staff Exchange in Regenerative Medicine

Regenerative Medicine Innovation Crossing - Research and Innovation Staff Exchange inRegenerative Medicine

REMIX Network is becoming a leading open-ended hub at international level on research and young researchers training on use of natural materials to fabricate innovative strategies to induce human tissue regeneration after trauma or specific pathologies, by designing future products based on natural resources and sustainable, low cost and available to a large population. In addition, we define and fabricated 3D in vitro models that can allow the reduction of animal tests and also predictive asses for the evaluation of drugs without having to resort to animal tests or to model diseases and their mechanisms (such as tumor models). Training of students at all levels and young researchers was one of our priority actions, in order to provide them knowledge and experience for a new professional profile in the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. In particular, learning the relevance of a multidisciplinary and multi-cultural working environment, and its impact on their future career. REMIX Network has investigated extensively the potentialities of materials of natural origin for use in the regeneration of human tissues for biomedical and diagnostic purposes and to design protocols that can be picked up and scaled up by the biotechnological industry. The research is performed with a multi-disciplinary approach, welcoming inputs from material engineering, physics, biology, chemistry, medicine, and computational modelling. We choose to research sustainable materials isolated from natural resources (such as silk, collagen and keratin), comprising industrial and food wastes, eventually combined with natural pharmacological molecules with long tradition of use in Asian Traditional Medicine. We intended to explore this wealth of knowledge, testing them rigorously and following the international standards to find out which ones can actually be used in Regenerative Medicine. The REMIX project has organized exchanges of researchers (mainly PhD students and young researchers) between partner universities to conduct joint scientific research and exchanges of practices and experiences aiming at the achievement of the project's objectives and developping a more international profile within their studies.

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