The chancellor of Shahid Behrshti University said that the US imposed sanctions have impacted our patients, medical sections and the country but our youngsters and scientists counter them all.

Iran Press/Iran news: Muhammad Aghjani, chancellor of Shahid Behrshti University of Medical Sciences in an interview with IP on the occasion of the unveiling of an Iranian-produced artificial bone, made by state-of-the-art 3D printing technology, said: "Given various reasons like road accidents, cancerous diseases and defects at birth, one might suffer bone lesions. To cure and treat them, medical science has approached, tried and tested various methods, with each one having its own difficulties."

This official said, today at Shahid Beheshti University you are witnessing artificial bone unveiling ceremony made from a biomaterial replacing human bone.

He highlighted that this biomaterial has different features, the structure is very similar to that of the original bone, and collagen can act as molecular cables and further improve the bio-compatibility of the implant and also can print the defected part precisely in a very sophisticated printer via internal technology.

Aghajani said, the US imposed sanctions have impacted our patients, the medical community and the country, but our youngsters and scientists counter them all.

This unveiled technology indicates our reliance on internal knowledge and our own scientists, head of Shahid Beheshti university pointed.

By valuing our personnel and allocating a larger share of GDP to research, we will attain even bigger achievements, he added.

Muhammad Aghajani reiterated: "Iran's medical improvement and scores are 30 at global universities "Leiden" and 84 at webometrics."

"All are indications that Iran is advancing fast in science and technology, specifically the medical sciences, despite US sanctions," he said.

An Iranian-produced artificial bone, produced using 3D printing technology, was unveiled at a special ceremony held at Shahid Beheshti University on Saturday, 3 August 2019.

Dr. Arash Khojaste, Oral and Maxillofacial surgeon and the principal investigator (PI) of Artificial Bone and Muhammad Aghajani, chancellor of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and various other specialists and scientists attended the ceremony. 101/211

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the structure is very similar to that of the original bone, and collagen can act as molecular cables and further improve the biocompatibility of the implant.           despite the US threats and sanctions we had made great medical and scientific achievements in the world