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Lithuanian institute twins with UMC Utrecht and ETH Zurich in musculoskeletal research
TABBY-TEAM, an EU-funded twinning project, links Lithuania's Innovative Medicine Centre with University Medical Center Utrecht and ETH Zurich to build its research and management capacity in musculoskeletal tissue engineering.
Why it matters: Researchers and managers at Lithuania's Innovative Medicine Centre are due to receive secondments, practical training and mentoring from partners in Utrecht and Zurich.
According to its CORDIS entry, TABBY-TEAM seeks to boost the research and project-management abilities of Lithuania's Innovative Medicine Centre (IMC) in musculoskeletal tissue engineering, with University Medical Center Utrecht and ETH Zurich as partners.
CORDIS records the project as a Horizon Europe Coordination and Support Action funded through the programme's strand on widening participation and spreading excellence.
The project description says IMC staff will learn through secondments, mentoring, practical training, shared workshops and exchanges of know-how, plus a modest research strand developing osteochondral (bone and cartilage) tissue constructs.
The project's backers say it should make IMC a leading centre for musculoskeletal engineering in the Baltic region and help narrow gaps in research and innovation performance across Europe.
Editor’s view
Joseph Lopez, Collaboration Editor
Staff at Lithuania's Innovative Medicine Centre are the direct beneficiaries: if the planned secondments and training go ahead, they will acquire biofabrication, biomechanics and project-management skills from the Utrecht and Zurich partners, while IMC shares its own expertise in biomaterial scaffolds carrying extracellular vesicles.
