"UroPrint" proposes the use of Laser-Induced Forward Transfer (LIFT) to generate bladder tissue for autologous transplantation that would meet the biological, mechanical, and functional properties of human bladder.

This vision is enabled by combining and advancing a number of achievements in the fields of optics and laser technologies, materials, engineering and micro-instrumentation, and experimental surgery. We propose to pursue two equally novel approaches: i) print ex vivo fully autologous bladder tissue employing primary urothelial cells (pUCs) and smooth muscle cells (pSMCs) embedded within a novel xenofree (XF) human-based hydrogel from methacrylated platelet lysate (PLMA); ii) in vivo print autologous pUCs in PLMA.

Website: https://www.uroprint.eu/