A Textile Platform Using Continuous Aligned and Textured Composite Microfibers to Engineer Tendon‐to‐Bone Interface Gradient Scaffolds

The authors thank to Hospital da Prelada (Porto, Portugal) for providing lipoaspirate tissue (Plastic Surgery Department) samples; Dr. Rui Domingues and Dr. Pedro Babo for the technical help with confocal microscopy and micro-CT analysis. The authors acknowledge the financial support from the European Union Framework Programme for Research and Innovation HORIZON2020, under the TEAMING Grant agreement No 739572 – The Discoveries CTR, the ERC Grant CoG MagTendon nr 772817, FCT-Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia for the PhD grant of IC (PD/BD/128088/2016); and the Project NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000021: “Accelerating tissue engineering and personalized medicine discoveries by the integration of key enabling nanotechnologies, marine-derived biomaterials and stem cells,” supported by Norte Portugal Regional Operational Programme (NORTE 2020), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).