The Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS) of the European Commission has recently published the results of the European TriAnkle project on its online portal.
Under the title “Novel ways to repair damaged tendons”, the article, translated into 6 languages, presents an innovative response to a very latent reality in current societies, tendinopathies and osteoarthritis (OA) for which today there are only conservative therapies focused on limiting movement, rest and rehabilitation or surgical reconstruction that involves sutures, autografts, allografts or xenografts.
In this context, the European TriAnkle project proposes developing 3D bioprinted scaffolds based on collagen and gelatin as a therapy for tissue regeneration.
The results of the TriAnkle project have shown that in animal models all the selected and tested prototypes showed an improvement in lesions in parameters such as vascularization and collagen density.
The result is significant since, if a simpler therapy can achieve a similar benefit compared to a complex therapy, it facilitates the clinical transfer of the solution, since simpler therapies carry fewer risks and therefore require shorter development times.
In addition to technical work, TriAnkle has also devoted significant efforts and attention to understanding the patients behind this problem by carrying out social research in the form of literature search and organizing patient workshops with the aim of better describing the problems faced by patients and their needs, taking into account that they play a central role in the required therapies.
If you want to read the complete CORDIS article, click here.
