Ahmed REDA (Belgium)
Ahmed Reda, Ph.D, is currently a postdoc at KU Leuven and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, both in Belgium since 2017. His main scientific interest is male fertility preservation. He works now on unravelling the mechanism and possible fertility preservation of male cystinosis patients. He got his Ph.D. from Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, in 2016, with the topic “Artificial testis to study early gonadal development and male germ cell differentiation”. He worked earlier as a researcher in Karolinska Institutet since 2010.
Abstract
Tissue Engineering Approaches for In-Vitro Spermatogenesis (3D Testes)
Finding a possible method to achieve the differentiation of germ cells in vitro –what we call in vitro spermatogenesis - has been always an interesting topic of research for different reasons, including fertility preservation, research purposes, and toxicological assays. Many attempts have been made to approach this aim. One of the promising approaches was the use of the organ culture technique. However, it has never been reported to obtain a full successful spermatogenesis in vitro, even with the organ culture technique. Recently, there have been many advances in tissue engineering technology; including the use of de-cellularized tissue and the 3D-bioprinting. Hence, we will try to shed the light on the usage of these new techniques to achieve in vitro spermatogenesis.