Support Dr. Moghimi for 3D printed bone graft

I am Nafiseh Moghimi, a Material Scientist and Biomedical Engineer who obtained my Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo, Canada. I am currently in Los Angeles and working as a Post-Doctoral researcher in a collaborative project between Canada and US. I devoted my academic life to developing new materials for sensors and biomedical devices in different areas, especially for cancer detection and treatment. I have been accomplished in writing many scientific articles and book chapters and have been involved in innovating new medical devices to treat breast cancer.

My recent project in cancer went on the top 3 News

Now I plan to work on new technology to develop regenerative bone medicine using 3D bioprinted tissue and scaffolds. This project brings opportunities for a variety of patients with cancer and injuries who need bone or tissue transplants.

This project has been planned for two years with the help of a small company working on accessibility for many years, and the budget needed is $120,000 for two years. I raise the money for the first year of the research and results are very promising so far. I am raising money for the second year of the project and I need to raise $15,000 now.

What is this project about?

The project is to be explained as “growing bone and tissue according to individual’s size & needs from their own body cells” and integrated with the surgical team to use them in implant surgeries.

Over 3 million Canadians suffer from bone disease resulting from trauma, tumor removal and cancer. Standard autologous bone grafting has been associated with donor site morbidity and/or limited quantity. Over the years, tissue engineering strategies have emerged as an alternative to replace, repair, and restore diseased tissues and improve patients' quality of life. I plan to develop an implantable scaffold for bone regeneration with healing enhancement by local drug delivery and sustained drug release. 3D printing can be used for patient-specific therapy, as it allows for fabricating custom-made implants and medical devices. In parallel with personalized medicine, which refers to patient-specific medication based on patients' genetic profiles, 3D printing can be used for personalized treatment. 3D constructs with living cells, growth factors and other biomaterials are envisioned to replace damaged or diseased tissues. They can also be used as a disease or toxicity model to study the interaction between different cell types or for drug screening.

This project can help people with:

Benefits of this method of treatment:

• Faster recovery, less hospital stay

• No need to import implantable bone and organs from another country such as the USA or Europe

• Biocompatibility with patient’s body

• Local medication delivery

Why should you support it?

• Growing elderly population in Canada

• Very limited donors

• Increasing population at risk of bone cancer

• Approximately 3.9 million (13.6%) Canadians aged 20 years and older live with diagnosed osteoarthritis, and 219,000 (8.7 per 1,000 persons per year) were newly diagnosed in 2016–2017.

What would this money be used for?

• Essential equipment and test material such as cells, culture media and materials, 3D printing material …

• Test costs which need to be done by other laboratories

• Hire a Ph.D. or Postdoc Student to develop material and prototype the device

• The Go-funding cut-off is considered.

Available on request

• Resume

• More details about the project

• Reference letter

What you get as my donor

• Lots of my gratitude

• Acknowledgement

• Tax receipt

• Project update upon request

If you donate a significant amount:

I'd be happy to arrange a virtual tour of the lab and send more academics detail of the project if you are in the same bio-med field