Distinguished Life Science and Biomedical Engineering Lecture Series
Department of Bioengineering
Watson School
Cordially invite you to attend a seminar given by:
Dr. Seung-Schik Yoo
Associate Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital Editor and Chief
The International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology
“On-Demand 3D Bioprinting”
Friday, December 5th, 2014
3:30 – 4:30 pm
Biomedical Engineering Multimedia Room, BI 2504 (ITC)
Please contact Trisha Glezen at tglezen@binghamton.edu
if interested in meeting with the speaker before or after the seminar.
ABSTRACT: 3-dimensional (3D) bioprinting has emerged as a new disruptive technology that may address the ever
increasing demand over organ transplants by providing on-demand individualized construction of biological tissues
and organs. 3D bioprinting, by strategically positioning individual or group of cells into specific locations in various
bio-scaffold materials and appropriate extracellular matrices, aims to build functional biological constructs that
mimic the organ functions. Several key technical features of the 3D bioprinting techniques are reviewed, along with
potential medical and industrial applications. Several unanswered components to ultimately create printed
biological organs are discussed. Owing to the complicated nature of the human organs, in addition to the legal and
ethical requirements for their safe implantation into the human body, it would take at least several years of research
and development, perhaps even decades, to produce implantable bioprinted organs with full functionality, which
also suggest much rooms remaining for further research. Multifaceted and diverse applications of printed
organs/tissue would definitely mean profound impact on health.
BRIEF BIO: Dr. Yoo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in
Boston. He received his MBA from University of Massachusetts and his PhD in Radiological Sciences from HarvardMIT, Division of Health Science and Technology (HST) Program. Dr. Yoo has received several awards including the
ULTRA Round Table Recognition Award from the Korean Science and Engineering Foundation and CIMIT Innovation
Award from the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology.
His research interests include the continued development and extension of 3D bioprinting technology, and further
innovations in functional neuromodulatory techniques using focused ultrasound (FUS), along with their clinical
translations through collaboration with clinicians and researchers world-wide. With over 90 peer reviewed
publications, Dr. Yoo has made a large contribution to the current literatures in his field.