News

  1. Home
  2. About
14 June 2022

Third ERC Proof of Concept grant awarded to João Mano

Third ERC Proof of Concept grant awarded to João Mano

João F. Mano, professor at the Department of Chemistry, and vice-director of CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials, was awarded for the third time with a Proof of Concept (PoC) grant from the European Research Council. The ERC-PoC scheme supports activities at the very early stage of turning research outputs into a commercial valuable proposition, able to achieve economic or societal benefits.

Based on technological advances reached from the ERC-Advanced Grant ATLAS, João F. Mano and his team, will receive 150000€ for the development of a new family of commercially exploitable bioinks based on human-derived proteins, derived from blood fractions or placental tissues.

The project, entitled HumanINK - Human based bioinks to engineer physiologically relevant tissues, will be co-supervised by Catarina Custódio, who will also be involved in the validation and commercial exploitation of these products through Metatissue, a spin-off company from University of Aveiro.

Bioprinting techniques, which integrate 3D printing with tissue engineering by utilizing living cells encapsulated in biomaterials as bioinks, are paving the way toward devising many innovating solutions for key biomedical and healthcare challenges and herald new frontiers in medicine, pharmaceutical, and food industries.

HumanINK aims to validate human based-bioinks to produce robust humanized 3D hydrogel environments with unprecedented biofunctionality for specific cell culture that fully recapitulate the native microenvironment of a variety of human tissues and organs.

These bioengineered constructs could find fast applications in the development of disease models, to understand mechanisms of disease, screen drugs or to test other treatments. One expects that the technology will be later translatable into the clinics, to be used in therapies based on regenerative medicine.

Share this Article:

Related Articles

Researchers

Groups

G5 - Biomimetic, Biological and Living Materials

We use cookies for marketing activities and to offer you a better experience. By clicking “Accept Cookies” you agree with our cookie policy. Read about how we use cookies by clicking "Privacy and Cookie Policy".


Privacy and Cookie Policy

Personal data

CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials respects your privacy, ensuring confidentiality of personal data you share with the institution through this way, not collecting any personal information about you without your consent, under the terms required by General Data Protection Regulations (RGPD).

The data collected in forms are intended exclusively for processing user requests and will not be used for any other purpose, always safeguarding their confidentiality, under the terms of the protection conferred by the aforementioned regulation.

The collection and processing of data is the responsibility of CICECO and its storage is properly protected, only authorized CICECO employees can access the information within the scope of their functions, always being clear in the respective collection forms the purposes for which they are intended. The remaining issues to be considered in this matter will be handled by the University of Aveiro in accordance with the regime established by the GDPR.

Cookies policy

Cookies are small files with alphanumeric information that are stored on your computer's hard drive by your browser and are intended to improve the user experience and enhance website navigation.

Collection and use of technical information

The cookies used on CICECO are anonymous, and no information about our users that allows their personal identification is stored in them.

The technical information recorded consists of:

  • iP (Internet Protocol) address of the visitor;
  • the type of internet browser used by the website visitor and the respective operating system used;
  • the date and time of the consultation;
  • the pages visited on the site and the documents downloaded
  • The technical information collected is used for statistical purposes only.

Cookies used

Session cookies

These cookies are used to record user preferences, such as the language in which websites are displayed or to maintain authenticated user sessions, and are automatically deleted when the browser is closed.

Persistent cookies

These cookies store information that is needed between sessions. For example, a persistent cookie is set to record that you have been made aware of the cookie policy so that the message regarding this policy is not shown again the next time you visit the website. This cookie remains on the computer until it reaches its expiry date or is deleted by the user.

Data protection

The present privacy policy covers the Information System of the University of Aveiro (SIUA), governed by the General Data Protection Regulations (RGPD) Regulation (EU) No. 2016/679, of April 27th, 2016.

Data Protection Officer

The University of Aveiro has a Data Protection Officer (DPO), who ensures compliance of the processing of personal data with the legislation in force, and is available through the following email address epd@ua.pt.

Close