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It’s business and materials for starters in this week’s 3D Printing News Briefs, and then on to 3D printing for cultural heritage. Dyndrite has added two new members to its Developer Council, and Carbon introduced a new material, while KAUST is 3D printing peptide-based hydrogel scaffolds for tissue engineering applications. Finally, a 3D storytelling project at the Art Institute of Chicago could also be a good opportunity for institutional accountability and reconciliation with indigenous communities and artists.

A printable hydrogel made of ultrashort peptides could help shape cells into viable tissues

Researchers from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have developed a new method of 3D printing hydrogel scaffolds based on ultrashort peptides.

Researchers have made an advance in bioprinting that has the potential transform tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

The newly developed bioprinting technique has the potential to revolutionize tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

Following a call by President Tony Chan for KAUST PIs to contribute through their research capabilities to alleviate the COVID-19 pandemic, efforts coordinated by Donal Bradley, KAUST vice president for research, and Pierre Magistretti, KAUST dean of the Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering division, mobilized a group of faculty to form the Rapid Research Response Team (R3T). The focus of R3T is to collaborate with and strongly support the Kingdom's healthcare stakeholders to help combat the spread of COVID-19.

Prof. Charlotte Hauser gave a talk during KAUST Research Conference Digital Health 2020 that was entitled "Digital Health: What can we expect from AI in Regenerative Medicine".

The concept of Digital Health (DH) gained traction as a result of a number of complementary advancements in computational sciences, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data analytics, OMICS fields and biomedical technologies with the common aim of improving the health of individuals as well as societal well-being.

Our postdoctoral fellow Dr. Rui Ge attended the 6th Beijing Keyin Molecular Dynamic and GROMACS Seminar, which was held in Beijing on December 8-12, 2019. The seminar was organized by Beijing Keyin Research Center for Natural Sciences and Beijing Keyin Technology Development Center.

Our PhD student Hepi Hari Susapto participated in the 2019 MRS Fall Meeting taking place from December 1-6, 2019 in Boston, MA. At the conference, he presented his work titled "Ultrashort Self-Assembling Peptides for Robotic 3D Cell Bioprinting under Physiological Conditions".

Our PhD student Salwa Alshehri attended to Applied Nanotechnology and Nanoscience International Conference 2019 and presented a paper entitled "Biomimetic ultrashort peptide hydrogel mediated bone regeneration (with human mesenchymal stem cells)".

​Professor Hauser won Best Paper Award in the 9th International Conference On “Advances in Applied Science and Environmental Technology” (ASET’19).

​Professor Hauser and Vice chancellor Professor Habib Ahmad participated in tree planting event in Islamia College, Peshawar, Pakistan​​.

​Professor Hauser was invited to deliver plenary lecture in "International Chemistry Conference" at Bahauddin Zakariya Univesity, Multan, Pakistan on 27 & 28 March 2019.

The Vice Presidency for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research (GSSR) at King Abdulaziz University hosted the scientific collaboration agreement between the Center of Innovation in Personalized Medicine (CIPM) and the 3D Bioprinting and Nanomedicine unit at King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST). The collaboration agreement was signed in the presence of Prof. Yousif Al-Turki, the vice president of GSSR, Prof. Adeel Chaudhary, the director of CIPM, and Prof. Charlotte A.E. Hauser, the head of the 3D Bioprinting and Nanomedicine unit at KAUST, on Wednesday March 20, 2019.

​Our visiting student Yazeed Alroogi received Grand award and two Special awards on Ibdaa 2019. Congratulations Yazeed!

​Professor Hauser was recognized by the National Academy of Inventors for having made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society.​

​Our visiting student Mohammed Alenezi won 1st prize in 10th Annual Research Day Students Poster Competition organized by Alfaisal University

​Our ​PhD student Salwa Alshehri won 2nd Place and People's Choise Award on Science as Art competition held by Materials Research Society (MRS) KAUST student chapter. Congratulations Salwa!

​Professor Charlotte Hauser participated as a panel speaker in the third session of Asbar World Forum (AWF), which took place in Riyadh between 4-6 November 2018 under the theme “The Future Era: Saudi Arabia Tomorrow.”