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What if healing could be personalized—using a patient’s own cells?

That question took center stage when Dr. Vincent Li, Chief Operating Officer and Scientific Director of the Angiogenesis Foundation, gave a presentation and moderated a panel at the Symposium for Advanced Wound Care (SAWC Spring 2025) in Grapevine, Texas, on May 2, 2025. He was joined by Dr. John Lantis (Mt. Sinai, NYC) and Dr. Thea Price (Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL) in a session focused on The Future of Wound Healing.

The session spotlighted a cutting-edge advancement in regenerative medicine: using 3D printing and a patient’s own tissue to create customized grafts for wound healing.

Chronic wounds continue to pose serious challenges, particularly for older adults and individuals with diabetes. By tailoring treatments to each patient’s biology, this approach could help accelerate healing—precisely where it’s needed most.

What Was the Talk About?

The session, titled The Future of Wound Healing: Leveraging the Patient’s Own Adipose Tissue through Novel 3D Printing and supported by Tides Medical, explored how emerging technology is reshaping personalized wound care.

Dr. Li described the scientific research and clinical application of adipose-derived micronized tissue and its use as bio-ink in a novel 3D printer, with the printed tissue applied to a variety of wound types. Fat is easily accessible through small-volume liposuction, which can be performed in an outpatient clinic. Once collected, the fat can be processed quickly while the patient is waiting, yielding a bio-ink.

He showed that the micronized tissue contains biologically active cellular and molecular elements that promote healing, and the panelists presented successful cases in which the printed tissue facilitated recovery in challenging chronic wounds.

Why It Matters

This emerging strategy may help reduce complications and improve outcomes for patients with hard-to-treat wounds. Highlights from the session included:

• A bedside 3D printer that creates personalized tissue grafts in under an hour

• Bio-ink made from a patient’s own fat, used to support new tissue growth

• Fibrin-based and low-temperature grafting techniques tailored to different wound types

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Stay tuned as we continue to highlight breakthroughs shaping the future of care.

Best wishes,
- The Angiogenesis Foundation