Our #HorizonEU project is developing smart hydrogels and genetic tools to do the reverse, transform bacteria from implant infections into healing partners to help regenerate tissue.

Her presentation was part of the session “Advanced Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering for Effective Implant Infection Treatment” chairs by our partners Andrea Cochis, from the Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, and Giovanna Gomez D'ayala from IPCB-CNR. 🇪🇺

She explained how she and her team at CNR-IPCB are “developing hydrogels containing bioactive solid signals to enhance bone regeneration. These hydrogels will be further enriched with genetic carriers that will turn biofilm-associated bacteria into a bio-factory for tissue regeneration.” 🦴🔄

Mariangela is a research fellow at Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche’s Institute of Biological Systems, where she and her team are developing these complex liposomes to delivery genetic material to bacteria (implant infections) to transform them into bio-factories for tissue regeneration! 🇪🇺

The proposition team is Joaquim Miguel Oliveira (3B’s, @uminho.bsky.social , Portugal) and Luigi Ambrosio (CNR-IPCB, Naples, Italy)

The opposition team is @IulianAntoniac (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania) and Marc Bohner (RMS Foundation, Switzerland)

The motion is “This house believes that the widely accepted definition of biomaterial needs to evolve to better encompass the increasing development and application of biologically responsive systems.”