Staff Profile

Dr. Wing Tai Tung, from Hong Kong, is an enthusiastic researcher specialised in tissue engineering, biofabrication, and biomaterial science. He is passionate in learning new things and wants to put in use of the research into real life, helping and improving people's life quality at the end.

Research interest:

Tissue engineering through understanding and engineering the niches and clues in ECM microenvironment to guide the respective cell behaviour spatiotemporally in forming the targeted functional tissue.

Keywords: Tissue engineering, Biomaterial, ECM, 3D Bioprinting, Spatial morphogenesis, lab-on-a-chip, Microfluidic, Immunomodulation

Current research:

Research and develop an in vitro functional cardiac tissue pump using reactive jet impingement (ReJI) bioprinting.

This in vitro model is aimed to bridge between the 2D cell culture and animal studies.

Research experience:

• Clinical translational project on fibrous cardiac patch using co-block polymer as microfiber material, showing preservation of cardiac function after myocardial infarction through modulation of post-infarct myocardial remodelling and the inflammation process.
• Co-axial electrospinning to manufacture core-shell microfibers with bioactive components as the shell layer.
• 3D printing and fabricate microfluidic Lap-on-chip with 3D microstructures through optical projection stereolithography.
• Fabrication of nerve conduit with electrospun aligned nanofibers showing directed axonal growth from rat DRG explant in vitro with myelination in co-culture with Schwann cells