Why is medicine so expensive? It may not be the reason you think. Learn how Dr. Aleksander Skardal and his team use cutting edge 3-D bioprinting to lower the cost of healthcare.

Dr. Skardal is an Assistant Professor at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, with cross-appointments in Biomedical Engineering and Cancer Biology, and is a member of the Tumor Progression and Recurrence Program, Gastrointestinal Disease-Oriented Group, and Brain Tumor Center of Excellence at the Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest Baptist Medical. Dr. Skardal has an interest in using biofabrication/bioprinting and material science technologies to create in vitro model systems of various organs and cancers, which can be used to for modeling pathologies, personalized medicine, and drug and toxicology screening. Additionally, Dr. Skardal has employed his biomaterial and bioprinting expertise in applications of wound regeneration.

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