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

24/09/2014 Roberta Visone awarded for Best Master Thesis
We are proud to announce that CTE-Lab Master student Roberta Visone has been awarded with the Prize GNB Bressanone 2014 for the Best Master Thesis entitled “Development of a culture chamber for electr
18/12/2014 Congratulations to Simone Bersini for his PhD graduation!!!
01/11/2014 Simone Bersini will spend six months at the Khademhosseini Lab (MIT)
We are pleased to announce that CTE-Lab PhD student Simone Bersini will spend six months at the Khademhosseini Lab (MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, US).
25/10/2014 Marta Bottagisio starts her PhD!!!
We are happy to announce that Marta Bottagisio will soon start her PhD in Veterinary and Animal Science (University of Milan) as part of our research group!
04/10/2014 Mara Gilardi will spend six months at the Mechanobiology Lab (MIT)
We are happy to announce that CTE-Lab PhD student Mara Gilardi will spend six months at the Mechanobiology Lab headed by Prof. Roger D.

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