3D bioprinted living retina project awarded $90K by National Eye Institute

The National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded $90,000 to a team from the University of Maryland for its proposal to develop a living model of a human retina with the help of 3D printing.
The winning proposal of the NEI’s 3-D ROC was submitted by a University of Maryland team led by Erin Lavik, ScD, and is being lauded for its “scalability, efficacy, and reproducibility.” In short, the team proposed a method for creating a living retina model which involved printing layers of adult neural progenitor-derived retinal neurons into a retina-like structure.
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