The tissue engineering group of the Biosanitary Research Institute ibs.GRANADA and the UGR brings together European experts in artificial skin for major burns

The city has hosted basic researchers, surgeons and clean room technicians from Finland, Switzerland, France, Germany and Spain involved in the creation and use of artificial skin as an advanced therapy medicine

Granada has been the venue chosen for the meeting of experts and those responsible for the research and application of artificial skin created by tissue engineering to large burns. The meeting, organized by the Tissue Engineering Group of the University of Granada and the Biosanitary Research Institute ibs.GRANADA was held in the first days of June in the Carmen de la Victoria of the University of Granada and has had the collaboration and participation of the RADYTTA (Andalusian Design Network and Translation of Advanced Therapies).

Basic researchers, surgeons and clean room technicians from Finland, Switzerland, France, Germany and Spain involved in the creation and use of artificial skin as an advanced therapy medication for large burns lacking truly effective alternative therapies participated in the meeting. The experts, who constitute the ESEN Group (European Skin Engineering Network), prepared a first consensus document, called Granada Document, which will set the standard in this field in the coming years and which, in the words of Professor Miguel Alaminos, professor of Histology at the University of Granada and the ibs.GRANADA Biosanitary Research Institute “is based on the development and experience of the artificial skin developed in Granada by the Tissue Engineering Group and successfully applied in the reference center for major burns in Andalusia.” The document will be published shortly through specialized scientific media.