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EDITORIAL

A Foreword from the Editor

Editor-in-Chief: Chee Kai CHUA

Executive Director, Singapore Centre for 3D Printing
Professor, Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering Cluster
School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering
Nanyang Technological University

http://dx.doi.org/10.18063/IJB.2016.01.011.

Welcome to the year of 2016! hosted the first and second IBC in the past two years.
Since last July when the first issue of International This year, IBC will change its name to “Bioprinting
Journal of Bioprinting (IJB) was successfully launched, and 3D Printing in the Life Sciences”, to reflect an
five new international editorial board members have increased coverage of scope, such as biomedical en-
joined us, including Dr. Aleksandr Ovsiankikov gineering and tissue engineering. The new conference
(Vienna University of Technology, Austria), Dr. Gi- will be held in Singapore on 21–22 July, 2016. For
ovanni Vozzi (University of Pisa, Italy), Dr. Boris N. details and registration, please go to the website
Chickkov (Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Germany), shown in brackets (http://selectbiosciences.com/con-
Dr. Peter Dubruel (Universiteit Gent, Belgium) and Dr. ferences/index.aspx?conf=BIO3D). We welcome all to
Ali Khademhosseini (Harvard Medical School, USA). come to Singapore to join our discussions on bio-
The total number of board members has increased to printing and 3D printing in the life sciences.
24 (see Figure 1) in half a year, but I hope that this Last but not least, I am pleased to present the
great team will continue to grow to 30 or more within second issue of IJB. This second issue includes one
this year. perspective, two reviews, six original research articles
and one project report. In the first article, An et al.
discussed the early forms of 4D bioprinting and pro-
[1]
posed a definition to unify distinct approaches .
Mehrban et al. reviewed the role of bioprinting in tis-
sue engineering, with a special focus on bioprinting of
[2]
stem cell-laden hydrogels . Sánchez-Salcedo et al.
reviewed and analysed the issue of bacterial adhesion
[3]
in bioprinted 3D scaffolds . In research, Tse et al.
reported a wax-based inkjet printing method which
[4]
could guide cells to grow into complex patterns .
Koudan et al. studied how tissue spheroids patterns
[5]
responded to a nanofibrous substrate . Ng et al. deve-

loped a new hydrogel system for bioprinting a better
Figure 1. Number of editorial board members by coun- skin tissue . Wang et al. reported an interesting bio-
[6]
try/region.
printing method to generate fibrous scaffolds with
[7]
International Bioprinting Congress (IBC) is an annual extremely complex geometries . Boehm et al. repor-
international conference event focusing on the latest ted a bioprinted microneedle system for an easy and
status and development of bioprinting. Singapore has quick detection of fluid samples from histamine-con-

A Foreword from the Editor. © 2016 Chee Kai CHUA. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribu-
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