Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA3D printing, bioprinting, biomaterials
Dr. Roger Narayan is a Distinguished Professor in the Lampe Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University. He is an author of over two hundred publications as well as several book chapters on novel approaches for the processing of biomedical materials. He currently serves as an editorial board member for several academic publications, including as executive editor of Biomaterials Forum (Society for Biomaterials) and associate editor of Applied Physics Reviews (AIP Publishing). Dr. Narayan has also edited several books, including the first and second editions of the textbook Biomedical Materials (Springer), the handbook Materials for Medical Devices (ASM International), the Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering (Elsevier), and the Encyclopedia of Sensors and Biosensors (Elsevier). Dr. Narayan currently leads the Materials Research Society Bio Staging Task Force on 3D/Bioprinting; he has previously served as director of the TMS Functional Materials Division, the ASM International Emerging Technologies Awareness Committee, and the American Ceramic Society Bioceramics Division. As the 2016-7 ASME Swanson Fellow, he worked with America Makes, the national additive manufacturing institute, on several activities to disseminate additive manufacturing technology, including the development of a workforce/education/outreach roadmap for additive manufacturing and the development of a repository containing educational materials related to additive manufacturing. He has served as the director of a Science Saturday outreach program at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences since 2010. Dr. Narayan has received several honors for his research activities, including the University of North Carolina Jefferson-Pilot Fellowship in Academic Medicine, the National Science Faculty Early Career Development Award, and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award. He has been elected as Fellow of AAAS, ASME, ASM International, AIMBE, American Ceramic Society, and the Materials Research Society
Over the past two decades, the inclusion of biological materials such as drugs, cells, growth factors, and peptides as part of the feedstock materials for additive manufacturing has grown. The aim of this special topic is to publish a collection of papers on Novel Materials and Processing for Medical 3D Printing and Bioprinting. The issue will consider improvements to laser induced forward transfer stereolithography, inkjetting, piezoelectric jetting, micro-valve jetting, material, and electrospinning processes for bioprinting. The use of new materials for bioprinting, including but not limited to the materials for the development of artificial tissues and research models, will also be considered.
Application of 3D-printed individualized porous tantalum buttress in shelf acetabuloplasty for developmental dysplasia of the hip
Improved osseointegration and segmental stability of 3D-printed porous tantalum cages with micro-scale structures for spinal fusion
3D bioprinting for tendon–bone interface regeneration
Computational investigation of a 3D-printed osteochondral interface scaffold with comprehensive interfacial mechanical properties