The Tissue Engineering Research group of the ibs.GRANADA distinguished with the Medal of Andalusia 2018
The Tissue Engineering Research group of the University of Granada, led by Professor Antonio Campos and the Cell Production and Tissue Engineering Unit of the Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital in Granada, led by Dr. Salvador Arías Santiago, both belonging to the Biosanitary Research Institute of Granada, have been distinguished with the Medal of Andalusia 2018
UGR researchers have promoted tissue engineering research and teaching in Spain over the last 25 years. Not surprisingly, the group led by Dr. Antonio Campos created the first artificial cornea and a new skin model, an investigation that they patented at the UGR and which is currently being applied to the clinic coordinated by IATA (Andalusian Initiative in Advanced Therapies ). The new skin model uses cells from the patient and a fibrin and agarose biomaterial subjected to a nanostructuring process similar to that developed for corneas.
In June 2016, and for the first time in Spain, the new skin model created at the University of Granada and manufactured under safe conditions by the Cell Production and Tissue Engineering Unit of the Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital was applied. Researchers from the Department of Histology of the University of Granada (UGR), the Cell Production and Tissue Engineering Unit, and the Hospital Plastic Surgery and Major Burns Clinical Management Unit have participated in this scientific advance now recognized by the Junta de Andalucía. Virgen del Rocío University of Seville. Currently, eight patients have already benefited from this innovation, two of them pediatric.
A European research project has recently been awarded, to be coordinated by Professor Miguel Alaminos, for the development of future nanotechnology-based medicalized skin models, based on the patent of researchers from the Department of Histology of the University of Granada, in the one in which researchers from France, Italy and Ireland will participate and which places the University of Granada in the European vanguard of this type of research.