Short Biography
- 1988 – Born, Razgrad, Bulgaria
- 2007 – 2011 BSc Ecological Chemistry at Sofia University (Sofia, Bulgaria)
- 2011 – 2013 MSc Materials Science at Sofia University (Sofia, Bulgaria)
- 2013 – 2017 PhD in Chemistry at Gent University (Gent, Belgium)
- 2017 – 2018 Researcher at IMEC
- 2019 – 2021 Chemist and R&D Director at Printivo
- 2021 – present Founder and Managing Director at MatriChem
- 01 Sep 2024 – present Postdoc at Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Dr. Murad Redzheb completed his PhD thesis in Chemistry at IMEC (Leuven, Belgium) and defended it at Ghent University in 2017. He has participated in more than a dozen local and international conferences and won a project to perform research at a synchrotron in Trieste, Italy. He is a co-author in over 20 scientific papers published in international journals with an impact factor and a co-inventor in two patents. He has experience in communicating science in an accessible language including as an invited speaker at the Researcher’s Night and Plovdiv Science Festival.
Dr. Redzheb has been working on 3D tissue engineering and bioprinting since 2019. In 2020, he supervised the first thesis on bioprinting in Bulgaria, successfully defended at the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy. He has worked on the development of bioprinting inks for cancer, bone, and cartilage in vitro tissue models which have been reported at local and international scientific conferences. In addition to authorships in peer-reviewed journals and a monograph, he has also contributed to the community as a reviewer of more than a dozen manuscripts describing innovations in the field of bioprinting.
Dr. Redzheb is the founder of MatriChem, an award-winning bioink startup. There he managed the registration with the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency of the first laboratory in Bulgaria to work with animal by-products for collagen extraction for R&D, per the European regulations and the principles of GLP. He has been involved in projects to develop treatments for cartilage and bone regeneration by bioprinting biomimetic implants. He has successfully led a project funded by the Bulgarian National Innovation Fund. A recent focus of dr. Redzheb’s research is the development of a perfusion-based bioreactor for 3D-printed and bioprinted tissue models and phantoms.
On 01 September 2024, Dr. Redzheb joined the group of Asoc. Prof. Dimiter Prodanov at the Institute of Information and Communication Technology – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences to work on the VIBraTE project. He will be developing biomimetic hydrogel-based brain phantoms to experimentally model the biomechanical effects of the viscoelastic coupling between the brain tissue and brain implants (electrodes).
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Selected Publications
[1] Redzheb, M., Sbirkov, Y., Valev, A., Dzharov, V., Petrova, H., Damyanova, T., Georgieva, A., Sarafian, V. Collagen bioinks redefined: Optimizing ionic strength and growth factor delivery for cartilage tissue engineering Int. J. Bioprinting (2024)
[2] Gospodinova, A., Nankov, V., Tomov, S., Redzheb, M., Petrov, P. D., Extrusion bioprinting of hydroxyethylcellulose-based bioink for cervical tumor model, Carbohydr. Polym. 260, 117793 (2021)
[3] Sbirkov, Y., Redzheb, M., Forraz, N., McGuckin, C. & Sarafian, V., High Hopes for the Biofabrication of Articular Cartilage—What Lies beyond the Horizon of Tissue Engineering and 3D Bioprinting? Biomedicines 12, 665 (2024)
[4] Redzheb, M., Armini, S., Berger, T., Jacobs, M., Krishtab, M., Vanstreels, K., Bernstorff, S., Van Der Voort, P., On the mechanical and electrical properties of self-assembly-based organosilicate porous films, J. Mater. Chem. C 5, 8599–8607 (2017)
