Biofabrication

Biofabrication can be defined as the production of complex living and non-living biological products from raw materials such as living cells, molecules, extracellular matrices, and biomaterials. Our lab exploits biofabrication strategies for the generation of vascularized constructs and for scaffold prototyping. We biofabricated perfusable vascular-like structures through the electrochemical transfer of endothelial cells to fibrin hydrogel, resulting in the formation of endothelial cell-lined vessels. We also applied photo-mold patterning to fabricate 3D cell laden hydrogel micro-patterns embedded in microfluidic devices. Furthermore, we exploited low-cost rapid prototyping techniques to generate implantable multi-well fibrin scaffold to study the influence of cell distribution on cell differentiation and the interaction between multiple cell types within a 3D environment.


NEWS / EVENTS

12/12/2016 Mara Gilardi awarded with a FIRC Foundation annual scholarship for Moores Cancer Center (San Diego, CA, USA)
We are proud to announce that CTE-Lab PhD student Mara Gilardi has been awarded with a scholarship from the FIRC Foundation to spend one year at the Moores Cancer Center (UC San Diego Health Science,
08/12/2016 Meet us at TERMIS-AM 11, 14 December 2016 San Diego, CA, USA
American Chapter Meeting of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society 2016
13/05/2016 Meet us at TERMIS-EU 2016, 28 June - 1 July, 2016 Uppsala, Sweden
European Chapter Meeting of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society 2016
10/11/2015 Best Poster Award at Biofabrication 2015
We are proud to announce that the CTE-Lab, in collaboration with Yokohama National University, is the winner of the Best Poster Award of the Biofabrication Congress 2015 for the work “The surface desi
04/11/2015 Congratulations Simone Bersini!
We are proud to announce that CTE-Lab Post-Doc Simone Bersini has been awarded with the GNB Alberto Mazzoldi Doctoral Prize for the PhD Thesis entitled “Engineered Micro and Macroscale Human 3D Vascul

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