AMBER and Johnson & Johnson collaborate to establish 3D printing laboratory

AMBER (Dublin, Republic of Ireland) is collaborating with Johnson & Johnson Services to establish a 3D printing laboratory, hoping to transform healthcare delivery via 3D bioprinting. AMBER, the Science Foundation Ireland-funded materials science institute (Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland) is collaborating with Johnson & Johnson Services, Inc. (NJ, USA) to establish a collaborative laboratory focused on 3D bioprinting. Research projects at the new Global Centre of Excellence for 3D bioprinting, due to be operational by the end of 2018, will initially focus on the orthopaedics area. Heather Humphreys, Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Republic of Ireland) commented: “Because...