NRP 46 “Implants and Transplants“

​Goals

The National Research Programme “Implants and Transplants“ (NRP 46) intends to focus on several sets of issues - it aims to:

• Promote research in state-of-the-art, future-oriented areas of implant and transplant technology, wherever such research is not promoted by industry
• Transfer results of this research to therapeutic applications (clinical studies, transfer of knowledge and know-how, implementation)
• Initiate projects dealing with relevant legal, ethical, economic and/or psychosocial issues
• Foster interdisciplinary projects to link up issues from the humanities and social sciences with biology and medicine
• Actively inform on the current state of research and participate in the social debate on the future development of transplant and implant technology
• Stimulate discussion of socially relevant issues within the branches of science directly concerned

Applicational aspects

• In vitro tissue generation
• In-situ tissue regeneration
• Generating matrices for cell and transplant tissue
• Transplantation of allogenous or xenogenous cells
• Stem cell transplants/Use of umbilical cord blood
• Tolerance induction
• Transplants from living donors