Bioprinting is coming of age : report from the International Conference on Bioprinting and Biofabrication in Bordeaux (3B’09)

Report from the conference

After three years without an international meeting, Fabien Guillemot (INSERM, University of Bordeaux, France) - coordinator of the AMA project "Biomaterials"- and Professor Makoto Nakamura decided to organize the International Conference on Bioprinting and Biofabrication (3B’09) in Bordeaux. This 4th international meeting on bioprinting was endorsed by TERMIS (Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society) and sponsored by the clusters Advanced Materials in Aquitaine and Route des Lasers, INSERM and the Aquitaine Regional Council.

Selected articles from the International Conference on Bioprinting and Biofabrication in Bordeaux (3B’09) have been published in Biofabrication Volume2, Number 1, March 2010. All papers are made freely available for 30 days from the date of online publication.