Associate Professor Mia Woodruff: Imagine a world with 3D printed body tissue.

Associate Professor Mia Woodruff leads the Biomaterials and Tissue Morphology Group at the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, QUT.

Mia’s exciting vision is of a future where the fabrication of patient-specific replacement tissue and organs is safe, cost-effective and routine. This dream drives her fascinating research to advance the high-tech sciences of tissue engineering and biofabrication.

Biofabrication applies 3D printing techniques using biological materials to create customised living 3D tissues and is poised to revolutionise the regenerative medicine industry. Developing this technology demands highly collaborative, interdisciplinary and teams from many fields including biologists, engineers, clinicians, materials scientists and mathematicians.

By working together, complex challenges can be solved and the 3D printing of anatomically precise replacement body parts, delivered in the operating theatre, can one day become a reality.