Research Center for Materials-Driven Regeneration

With the multidisciplinary approach in MDR, the consortium wants to tackle one of the biggest and costliest challenges of healthcare: the cure of chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, musculoskeletal disorders, and organ diseases such as kidney failure. The MDR Research Center was awarded a 18.8 M€ grant in May 2017 by the ministry of education, culture and science of The Netherlands in the framework of the Gravitation program.

Structure

The interdisciplinary team of researchers within the MDR consortium aims to focus on the research and development of new, intelligent materials that stimulate the regeneration of damaged or diseased tissues and organs. Three research flagships are defined according to hierarchical levels of increasing length scale and structural complexity:

• Flagship 1: Materials, cells and organoids
• Flagship 2: Materials-driven in situ tissue regeneration
• Flagship 3: Regeneration of complex organ functions

Funding

This work is part of the Gravitation research program Materials Driven Regeneration with project number 024.003.013, which is supported by the Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).