Contact Details
- Phone
- +64 3 378 6114
- tim.woodfield@otago.ac.nz
University Links
- Position
- Research Professor
- Department
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Musculoskeletal Medicine (Christchurch)
- Qualifications
- BE(Hons) MASc PhD
- Research summary
- Orthopaedic Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
Research
Professor Woodfield leads the Christchurch Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering (CReaTE) Group which is associated with the University of Otago’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and its Centre for Bioengineering & Nanomedicine. The Department’s location at the Christchurch hospital campus helps him maintain strong connections with the city’s medical and surgical staff, and the Centre draws upon talent across several disciplines based out of the University’s Dunedin, Christchurch, and Wellington locations in New Zealand.
His CReaTE Group is pursuing stem cell and biomaterial-based strategies for musculoskeletal tissue regeneration, and is primarily investigating their application in the clinical translation of orthopaedic medical devices & cell-based therapies.
The Group’s research technology platform includes complex 3D Biofabrication and Additive Manufacturing of biomaterial scaffolds and titanium medical devices applied to regenerative medicine of cartilage and bone, including: novel bio-ink/bio-resin development, delivery of novel biofilm inhibiters, advanced 3D tissue culture models, and high throughput screening.
Tim is a Principal Investigator within the New Zealand Medical Technology Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE), and he is an adjunct Associate Professor in the Institute of Health & Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, in Australia, as well as for the Auckland Bioegineering Institute, in the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
He has published over 100 peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters and proceedings (h-index: 30), and has acted as coordinator of the recent European Commission ‘skelGEN’ consortia project.
He has attracted over NZ$26 million in competitive research funding as Principal or Named Investigator through grants from the Royal Society of New Zealand, MBIE, HRC, AO Foundation.
Tim is a previous recipient of a prestigious Rutherford Discovery Fellowship, awarded to him by the Royal Society of New Zealand.
He serves the International Society for Biofabrication (ISBF) as its President Elect and Executive Board Member, and is the former President of the Australasian Society for Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering (ASBTE). He also sits on the Asia Pacific Council for the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS), and is an Editorial Board Member for Biofabrication, APL Bioengineering, and Frontiers in Bioengineering & Biotechnology.
Roles
- Principal Investigator, Christchurch Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering (CReaTE) Group
- Director, University of Otago Centre for Bioengineering & Nanomedicine
- Theme Leader, Regenerative Medicine – University of Otago Centre for Bioengineering & Nanomedicine
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Institute of Health & Biomedical Innovation (IHBI), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
- Adjunct Senior Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Principal Investigator, Centre of Research Excellence in Medical Technologies
- Associate Investigator, Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Diversity
Professional affiliations
- President-Elect & Exec Board Member
International Society for Biofabrication - Past President
Australasian Society for Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering (ASBTE) - Council Member
Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine International Society, Asia-Pacific Chapter (TERMIS-AP) - Secretary
Biofabrication Thematic Group, Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) - Editorial Board Member
Biofabrication (IOPscience) - Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member
Frontiers in Biomaterials - Editorial Board Member
APL Bioengineering
Professional interests
Orthopaedic Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
- Stem cell and scaffold-based regeneration of cartilage and bone
- Bio-fabrication and advanced bio-ink/bio-resins
- Orthopaedic medical device development
Christchurch Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering (CReATE) Group website
Regenerative Medicine website - Centre for Bioengineering & Nanomedicine
Publications
Murphy, C. A., Lim, K. S., & Woodfield, T. B. F. (2022). Next evolution in organ-scale biofabrication: Bioresin design for rapid high-resolution vat polymerization. Advanced Materials, 34, 2107759. doi: 10.1002/adma.202107759 Journal - Research Other
Shum, J. M., Gadomski, B. C., Tredinnick, S. J., Fok, W., Fernandez, J., Nelson, B., … Hooper, G. J., Puttlitz, C., … Woodfield, T. B. F. (2023). Enhanced bone formation in locally-optimised, low-stiffness additive manufactured titanium implants: An in silico and in vivo tibial advancement study. Acta Biomaterialia, 156, 202-213. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2022.04.006 Journal - Research Article
Lindberg, G. C. J., Cui, X., Durham, M., Veenendaal, L., Schon, B. S., Hooper, G. J., Lim, K. S., & Woodfield, T. B. F. (2021). Probing multicellular tissue fusion of cocultured spheroids: A 3D-bioassembly model. Advanced Science, 8(22), 2103320. doi: 10.1002/advs.202103320 Journal - Research Article
Lim, K. S., Galarraga, J. H., Cui, X., Lindberg, G. C. J., Burdick, J. A., & Woodfield, T. B. F. (2020). Fundamentals and applications of photo-cross-linking in bioprinting. Chemical Reviews, 120, 10662-10694. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00812 Journal - Research Article
Groll, J., Burdick, J. A., Cho, D.-W., Derby, B., Gelinsky, M., Heilshorn, S. C., … Woodfield, T. B. F. (2019). A definition of bioinks and their distinction from biomaterial inks. Biofabrication, 11, 013001. doi: 10.1088/1758-5090/aaec52 Journal - Research Other