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

03/09/2014 Simone Bersini wins the Best Presentation Award at ESB 2014
We are proud to announce that CTE-Lab PhD student Simone Bersini is the winner of the Best Presentation Award of the European Society of Biomaterials for the work “Generation of 3D functional microvas
03/06/2014 Meet us at TERMIS-EU 2014 in Genova (10-14 Jun)!
01/05/2014 Simone Bersini will spend 4 months at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology
We are happy to announce that CTE-Lab PhD student Simone Bersini will spend 4 months at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology in the lab headed by Prof. Roger D. Kamm
10/04/2014 Meet us at OARSI 2014 in Paris (24-27 Apr)!
03/03/2014 Mara Gilardi awarded with a six-month scholarship for MIT
We are proud to announce that CTE-Lab PhD student Mara Gilardi has been awarded with a scholarship from the Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lombardia (Progetto Professionalità Ivano Becchi) to spend six

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