• Question: How did you get interested in 3d printing and bones?

    Asked by 987heam32 to Fiona on 7 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Fiona Freeman

      Fiona Freeman answered on 7 Mar 2018:

      I’ve always been interested in bones and how we move. How when you stand on one leg we don’t fall over. Then I learnt more about bones and how complex they are and how they constant change do to use walking around on them. So for my PhD I researched if we could use stem cells (cells found in the marrow in our bone) to regenerate bone in the lab. After my PhD I found out that there was a lab in Dublin using 3D printing to generate implants for bone repair. I had always been interested in 3D printing and this job had both 3D printing and bone repair. I applied for a job and I got it.

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