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

10/02/2014 Mara Gilardi starts her PhD!!!
We are happy to announce that Mara Gilardi will soon start her PhD in Life Science (University of Milan-Bicocca) as part of our research group!
19/02/2014 Congratulations to Silvia Lopa for her PhD graduation!!!
09/10/2013 Meet us at CORS 2013 in Venice (13-16 Oct)!
05/10/2013 Dr. Alessandro Pozzi wins the Italian Hand Surgery Society 1st Prize
We are pleased to announce that CTE-Lab collaborator Alessandro Pozzi, MD, has been awarded with the Italian Hand Surgery Society 1st Prize for the work “The trapezium in subjects affected by rizoarth
18/09/2013 Meet us at BMES 2013 in Seattle (25-28 Sep)!

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