School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, GreeceLaser bioprinting; 3D mapping of tissues; 2D materials; Regenerative medicine
Prof. Ioanna Zergioti is a Professor at the NTUA, School of Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences since 2003. She studied Physics at the University of Crete and she received the PhD degree at the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas. After her PhD, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Max Planck Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie in Göttingen, on Laser matter interactions studies. Then, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Philips CFT on Laser Stereolithograpy of sol gels for electronics until 2000. Her main research activities are related to the laser printing, patterning, sintering for printed and flexible electronics and sensors applications as well as laser bioprinting for regenerative applications and organ on chip. Since 2019 she is an acting CEO at the spin off PHOSPRINT, aiming to advance the regenerative applications of the bioprinting. She has co-authored more than 200 publications in international refereed journals and conference proceedings, 15 patents. Over the years she has gained experience in leading R&D activities in the frame of EU funded RIA as a principal investigator (in more than 20 projects overall)
The bioprinting technologies are recognized among the most promising future technologies which will revolutionize the health sector. Laser bioprinting technologies including Laser Induced Forward Transfer and 2Photon Polymerization are powerful technologies which can advance the fields of the biomaterials printing and scaffolds construction for tissue engineering. Laser Induced Forward Transfer utilizes pulsed laser to transfer biomaterials in liquid or solid phases from a donor to a receiving substrate in a controlled manner, with high printing speed and high resolution with high cell viability and a wide range of ink viscosities compared to the technologies using nozzles.
Evaluation of mechanical and biological properties of akermanite/poly-ether-etherketone composite fabricated by hightemperature laser powder bed fusion
Hybrid solid mesh structure for electron beam melting customized implant to treat bone cancer
Laser transfer for circulating tumor cell isolation in liquid biopsy
Printed cisplatin on microneedle arrays for transdermal delivery enhances olaparib-induced synthetic lethality in a mouse model of homologous recombination deficiency