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

15/12/2010 Silvia Lopa starts her PhD!!!
We are happy to announce that Silvia Lopa will soon start her PhD in Biotechnology Applied to Medical Science (University of Milan) as part of our research group!
03/11/2010 Meet us at TeRM in Lattrop (18-19 Nov)!
01/09/2010 Meet us at TERMIS-AP in Sidney (15-17 Sep)!
01/06/2010 Meet us at TERMIS-EU 2010 in Galway (13-17 Jun)!
18/05/2010 Dr. Matteo Moretti wins the NASA Tech Brief Award
We are happy to announce that CTE-Lab PI Matteo Moretti, PhD, has been awarded with the NASA Tech Brief Award for the development of scientific and technical innovations

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