Antonia Ressler
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Mission statement
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), less than half of the world's population is covered by essential healthcare services and progress is needed in developing affordable solutions. The AffordBoneS and GlassBoneS projects aim to provide personalized and affordable scaffolds for bone augmentation procedures to allow a larger population to have access to these treatments and improve their quality of the life. It is estimated that in Europe alone, 1.5 million augmentation procedures are required annually. Obtaining an affordable and mass-customizable solution for maxillofacial bone augmentation procedures is essential for dental implants when the patient does not have enough bone to attach the implantable screw, to which the dental prosthesis is attached. The AffordBoneS solution is to treat these patients with biomimetic scaffolds obtained by using 3D printable calcium phosphate multi-substituted with ions.
Research fields
Biomaterials - material science, chemistry, biology, engineering, medicine and tissue engineering
Funding
Research career
10/2024 ‒ 08/2026, Postdoctoral research Fellow, Tampere Institute for Advanced Study, Tampere University, Finland
10/2022 ‒ 09/2024, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, Tampere University, Finland
2020 - Award L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science
09/2016 ‒ 09/2022, Research assistant at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Croatia
05/2021 ‒ 06/2021, Visiting researcher, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
05/2017 ‒ 07/2017, Visiting PhD student, Erasmus+ program, Center for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Universitat Politehnica de Valencia, Spain
09/2016 ‒ 11/2020, PhD student, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Croatia
Selected publications
A. Ressler et al., Osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells on substituted calcium phosphate/chitosan composite scaffold, Carbohydrate Polymers, Vol. 277, 1 Feb 2022, 118883. DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2021.118883
A. Ressler et al., A multifunctional strontium/silver-co-substituted hydroxyapatite derived from biogenic source as antibacterial biomaterial, Ceramics International, Vol. 48, 1 Jul 2022, 18361-18373. DOI:10.1016/j.ceramint.2022.03.095
A. Ressler et al., Injectable chitosan-hydroxyapatite hydrogels promote the osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells, Carbohydrate Polymers, Vol. 197, 1 Oct 2018, Pages 469-477. DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2018.06.029
Latest publications
Cleaning strategies for 3D-printed porous scaffolds used for bone regeneration fabricated via ceramic vat photopolymerization
Ressler, A., Zakeri, S., Konnunaho, P., Schwentenwein, M., Levänen, E. & Frankberg, E. J., 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Ceramics International. 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Experimental and computational insights into the mechanism of destabilization of poly(acrylic acid)-capped silver nanoparticles induced by weak conjugate bases
Kovačić, M., Ivanišević, I., Ressler, A. & Karamanis, P., 5 Jun 2024, In: Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 690, 133739.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Multifunctional Sr, Mg, Ag-substituted octacalcium phosphate/carboxymethyl chitosan scaffolds: Antibacterial activity and osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells
Ressler, A., Marić, M. M., Ohlsbom, R., Ivanković, T., Hannula, M., Frankberg, E. J., Gebraad, A., Pakarinen, T. K., Hyttinen, J., Miettinen, S., Ivanković, H. & Ivanković, M., May 2024, In: Materialia. 34, 102077.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Vat photopolymerization of biomimetic bone scaffolds based on Mg, Sr, Zn-substituted hydroxyapatite: Effect of sintering temperature
Ressler, A., Zakeri, S., Dias, J., Hannula, M., Hyttinen, J., Ivanković, H., Ivanković, M., Miettinen, S., Schwentenwein, M., Levänen, E. & Frankberg, E. J., 2024, In: Ceramics International. 50, 15, p. 27403-27415Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Antibacterial activity of silver doped hydroxyapatite toward multidrug-resistant clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii
Ivankovic, T., Turk, H., Hrenovic, J., Schauperl, Z., Ivankovic, M. & Ressler, A., 15 Sept 2023, In: Journal of Hazardous Materials. 458, 131867.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Chitosan/collagen/Mg, Se, Sr, Zn-substituted calcium phosphate scaffolds for bone tissue engineering applications: A growth factor free approach
Ressler, A., Ohlsbom, R., Žužić, A., Gebraad, A., Frankberg, E. J., Pakarinen, T. K., Ivanković, H., Miettinen, S. & Ivanković, M., 24 Jul 2023, In: European Polymer Journal. 194, 14 p., 112129.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Multiphase zinc and magnesium mono-substituted calcium phosphates derived from cuttlefish bone: A multifunctional biomaterials
Ressler, A., Ivanković, T., Ivanišević, I., Cvetnić, M., Antunović, M., Urlić, I., Ivanković, H. & Ivanković, M., Apr 2023, In: Ceramics International. 49, 7, p. 11005-11017 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Amphiphilic Silver Nanoparticles for Inkjet-Printable Conductive Inks
Ivanišević, I., Kovačić, M., Zubak, M., Ressler, A., Krivačić, S., Katančić, Z., Gudan Pavlović, I. & Kassal, P., 2022, In: Nanomaterials. 12, 23, 4252.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review