Professor Tim Woodfield

Professor of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery & Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Otago and Director, University of Otago Centre for Bioengineering & Translational Health Technologies

Professor Tim Woodfield's translational research involves development of cell-therapies combining engineered stem cell microenvironments and 3D Bioprinting of bioinks to fabricate personalised orthopaedic medical devices and regenerative medicine strategies. He has >155 publications (h-index: 55) and obtained >$30M in research funding. He has been awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship (Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apärangi), Research Excellence Award (Australasian Society for Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering - ASBTE), University of Otago Research Gold Medal, and is a Fellow in Biomaterials Science & Engineering (FBSE). He is principal investigator on a EU Horizon Health ‘micro2MACRO’ consortia project targeting scalable biomanufacturing of cartilage/bone tissues for joint repair.