Plastic Surgeries Clinical Trial
Official title:
VALIDATION OF A GMP-COMPLIANT BIOPRINTING PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING A DERMO-EPIDERMAL AUTOLOGOUS SKIN SUBSTITUTE FOR FURTHER THERAPEUTIC USE
Innovative technologies in the emerging field of regenerative medicine might allow an improvement in the treatment of deep complex wounds leading to faster and better wound healing. Among them, the bioprinting technology, consisting in "printing human cells and biomaterials" to create a "dermo-epidermal substitute" that mimics an alternative of the physiological skin is the most promising alternative. Besides improving skin substitutes properties, bioprinting allows to translate the manufacturing process of tissue-engineered products from manual, operator-dependent processes to a reproducible and automated solution. This paves the way to the manufacturing of therapeutic bioprinted products at the point of care, as close as possible from patients.
In this preclinical in vitro study, the investigators plan to generate GMP-compliant validation batches of "bio-printed dermo-epidermal substitutes" from 25 healthy volunteer patients' unused surgical tissue removed during plastic surgeries. Volunteer's harvested tissue will allow to extract and then amplify the epidermal keratinocytes and dermal fibroblasts. Successive cultures and bioprinting steps will generate a "bio-printed dermo-epidermal substitute" in 2 or 3 weeks. A blood test may also be performed on the volunteers to characterize the genetic stability during the different stages of the process. ;