[Graduate School of Science and Technology] SHIBAHARA Haruka wins the Student Award of Outstanding Poster Presentation at the 22nd Asian BioCeramics Symposium (ABC2024)
Jan. 08, 2025
SHIBAHARA Haruka, a first-year Ph.D. student in the Applied Chemistry Program at the Graduate School of Science and Technology, won the Student Award of Outstanding Poster Presentation at the 22nd Asian BioCeramics Symposium (ABC2024).
The Laboratory of Biomaterials (Professor AIZAWA Mamoru) is working on bone regeneration by tissue engineering using hydroxyapatite (HAp), a major inorganic component in living bone. Tissue engineering is a technology that regenerates tissue by combining three elements: cells, growth factors, and scaffold materials. As bone tissue has many blood vessels, and a shortage of blood vessels will cause tissue necrosis, it is required to construct bone tissue that contains blood vessels.
The Laboratory of Biomaterials (Professor AIZAWA Mamoru) is working on bone regeneration by tissue engineering using hydroxyapatite (HAp), a major inorganic component in living bone. Tissue engineering is a technology that regenerates tissue by combining three elements: cells, growth factors, and scaffold materials. As bone tissue has many blood vessels, and a shortage of blood vessels will cause tissue necrosis, it is required to construct bone tissue that contains blood vessels.
In this research, the authors first fabricated HAp ceramics with three-dimensional communicating pores and loaded vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) on them. By seeding and culturing rat bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells on the VEGF-loaded HAp porous ceramics, they succeeded in constructing regenerated cultured bone containing vascular tissue. Furthermore, they have confirmed the bone formation ability in vivo by embedding the constructed cultured bone into a rat skull defect.
This research achievement was recognized, resulting in the receipt of the Student Award of Outstanding Poster Presentation at the 22nd Asian BioCeramics Symposium (2 out of 21 were awarded). The Division of Ceramics in Medicine, Biology and Biomimetics, the Ceramic Society of Japan is a subcommittee focused on the synthesis, evaluation and physical properties of ceramics related to biological materials. The Asian BioCeramics Symposium is an international conference on bioceramics focusing on Asian countries, hosted by the Division of Ceramics in Medicine, Biology and Biomimetics and other organizations. ABC2024 was the 22nd symposium.
This research was also carried out as part of the research at the Meiji University International Institute for Materials with Life Functions.
Name of award: Student Award of Outstanding Poster Presentation
Name of society: The 22nd Asian BioCeramics Symposium (ABC2024)
Venue: Kitakyushu International Conference Center
Date: December 2 to 4, 2024
Presenters: 〇SHIBAHARA Haruka, SUZUKI Kitaru, KAWABATA Shunya, HONDA Michiyo and AIZAWA Mamoru
Presentation: Regeneration of Vascular and Bone Tissue Using Porous Hydroxyapatite Ceramics and Its Biological Evaluation
Related links
- Ceramic Society of Japan (CerSJ)
- Division of Ceramics in Medicine, Biology and Biomimetics, The Ceramic Society of Japan
- The 22nd Asian BioCeramics Symposium (ABC2024)
- Aizawa Lab. -Laboratory of Biomaterials- (Professor AIZAWA Mamoru)
- Meiji University International Institute for Materials with Life Functions