3D Bioprinting Solutions began development of the bioprinter for the ISS

On August 04, 2016 the United Rocket and Space Corporation (URSC) (enters into Roskosmos state corporation) signed the agreement with the company "3D Bioprinting Solyushens", the resident of the innovation center "Skolkovo", on cooperation within which it is going to create the unique bioprinter for a magnetic biofabrication of fabrics and organ constructs in the conditions of zero gravity on the International Space Station (ISS).

The document the CEO of URSC Yury Vlasov and the CEO signed "3D Bioprinting Solyushens" Mikhail Bakanov. A scientific part of the project will be supervised by professor, the candidate of medical sciences, the research supervisor of the company "3D Bioprinting of Solyushens" Vladimir Mironov.

Creation of the magnetic bioprinter will allow to print in space the fabric and organ constructs supersensitive to influence of space radiation – sentinel-bodies (for example, a thyroid gland) for biomonitoring of negative effect of space radiation in the conditions of long stay in space and development of preventive counter-measures.

In the long term the technology of three-dimensional magnetic bioprinting can be used for correction of damages of fabrics and bodies of astronauts at long space flights. On Earth such technology can be applied to faster bioprinting of human fabrics and bodies.

It is planned that the bioprinter for sending aboard the International Space Station will be ready by 2018. All works on preparation and carrying out an experiment will be carried out in close cooperation with PJSC RSC Energia and GNTs IMPB RAS.

Yury Vlasov, CEO of URSC:

"Creation of the compact bioprinter for a research of impact of space radiation on fabrics and human organs, and in the long term a printability of bodies during the piloted flights in distant space – one more step by an era of mastering by the person of other planets".

Yusef Hesuani, managing partner "3D Bioprinting Solyushens":

"Bioprinting at the ISS in the conditions of zero gravity opens unique opportunities and allows to use essentially new approaches in fabric engineering and regenerative medicine".