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Sciperio, Inc. 2003 R&D 100 Award Winner

The BioAssembly Tool (BAT) developed by a design team of mechanical, electrical, and tissue engineers and cell biologists has been selected by the independent judging panel and editors for R&D Magazine as one of the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace over the past year.

Sciperio, Inc., and its partners from Human Architectural Technologies Inc and The University of Arizona have developed a digital printing machine that can be used to create living tissue by design in a layer- by-layer fashion. The BAT uniquely combines the principles of computer- aided design and manufacturing with the materials and concepts of biology, medicine, and tissue engineering to create a truly heterogeneous 3D engineered tissue construct. To do this, the BAT can directly deposit cells, bioactive factors, and supportive scaffolding- selectively and in real time to enable the next wave of discoveries in regenerative medicine, advanced diagnostic therapies, and preventative immunotherapy. The BAT constitutes a significant scientific advance, to wit, the ways and means by which to create three-dimensional heterogeneous tissue engineered constructs of living tissue. BAT does this by combining the latest medical and cell biology discoveries with the latest digital printing know-how.

The full list of winners will be published in the September 2003 issue of R&D Magazine. Winners will be honored at a black tie gala Awards Banquet October 16, 2003 in the Grand Ballroom of Chicago's Navy Pier.

Sciperio, Inc. is an advanced R&D firm specializing in the invention and commercialization of leading technologies in the fields of electrical and chemical engineering, life sciences, lasers, materials science, and biophysics, all accomplished in partnership with private industry and government.