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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 479 7738
Email
jaydee.cabral@otago.ac.nz
Position
Research Associate Professor
Department
Department of Oral Rehabilitation
Qualifications
PhD, MRSNZ
Research summary
Multidisciplinary approach to develop medical devices, biomaterials, and bioengineered scaffolds
Teaching
  • BIOE 403
  • BIOE 405
  • BIOE 495
Memberships
  • Australasian Society for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
  • Centre of Bioengineering and Nanomedicine
  • Royal Society Te Apārangi
  • Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society
  • Society for Biomaterials
  • American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • New Zealand Institute of Chemistry (NZIC)

Research

Associate Professor Cabral's research applies an interdisciplinary approach to the development and characterisation of medical devices, biomaterials, and bioengineered scaffolds.

She played a key role in the development of an FDA-approved, commercialised medical hydrogel, Chitogel, as a post-operative surgical aid.

She utilises polymer synthesis, chemical and physical characterisation techniques, microbiological analysis, as well as in vitro mammalian tissue culture and in vivo models. Her laboratory is equipped with advanced 3D bioprinting technology, the GeSIM 3.1 Bioscaffolder. She has been awarded multiple grants from a variety of funding agencies, ie. HRC Explorer and LHR funded grants to develop 3D bioprinted vascularised, regenerative 'living dressings' for the treatment of chronic wounds.

Her research interests include increasing biomaterial/bioink multifunctionality for the delivery of adult stem cells, among other cell types; using a variety of 3D printing techniques in order to make more in vivo-like 3D constructs for regenerative medicine and tissue engineering purposes.

Her current MBIE funded Research Programme project in collaboration with the University of Auckland is to develop a novel medical device for drug delivery to the inner ear to treat hearing loss. Other awards include a RSNZ Catalyst Seed grant to 3D print nipple areolar complexes for breast cancer patients in collaboration with the University of Maryland, USA, and a Translation research grant to 3D print a medical device to treat precancerous cervical lesions.

Publications

Berry-Kilgour, C., Oey, I., Cabral, J., King, J., & Wise, L. (2024, August). Decellularised ecklonia radiata as a sustainable cellulose matrix for tissue engineering. Verbal presentation at the BMS Postgraduate Symposium, Dunedin, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Berry-Kilgour, C., Oey, I., Cabral, J., Dowd, G., & Wise, L. (2024). Decellularized green and brown macroalgae as cellulose matrices for tissue engineering. Journal of Functional Biomaterials, 15, 390. Journal - Research Article

Leonard, A. R., Cumming, M. H., Ali, M. A., & Cabral, J. D. (2024). Fish collagen cross-linking strategies to improve mechanical and bioactive capabilities for Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Advanced Functional Materials. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/adfm.202405335 Journal - Research Other

Cabral, J. (2024, February). Intro to biofabrication and tissue engineering, 3D printing in medicine. Workshop presentation at the Bioengineering Symposium & 3D Biofabrication Workshop, Dunedin, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Cabral, J. (2023, February). Development of peptide-functionalized hydrogel bioinks to create 3D living wound dressings. Verbal presentation at the Maurice Wilkins Centre (MWC) for Molecular Biodiversity Symposium, Dunedin, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

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