ACES works with state-of-the-art BioFab3D Facility

Officially opened in 2016, the BioFab3D Facility at Aikenhead Centre for Medical Discovery (ACMD), St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne is a state-of-the-art facility formed through a collaboration with four universities. This showcase and co-working space allows researchers, clinicians, engineers and industry partners to work alongside each other to build biological structures using the most high-tech equipment.

The four universities that share this space are Melbourne University (& St Vincent’s Hospital), Swinburne University of Technology, University of Wollongong and RMIT. The facility is the first robotics and biomedical engineering centre embedded within a hospital.

ACES plays a huge role in the BioFab3D@ACMD space with a number of ACES researchers and associate investigators leading the initiative and working within the space. Many ACES projects have been developed – or partly developed – using the space, such as the BioPen.

The BioFab3D@ACMD’s main capability is in 3D bioprinting and three dimensional cell culture and can perform other functions such as materials testing, and recording electrical activity, growth patterns and biochemistry.

The facility has garnered interest from many political faces and therefore has the potential to become a concept space for future, similar centres. To find out more visit the BioFab3D website.