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

01/10/2012 Meet us at BF 2012 in Manchester (28-31 Oct)!
03/09/2012 Silvia Lopa selected for the Tissue Engineering Young Investigator Council
We are proud to announce that CTE-Lab PhD student Silvia Lopa has been selected as one of the six members worldwide of the Tissue Engineering Young Investigator Council (Tissue Engineering Editorial B
01/09/2012 Simone Bersini will spend 16 months at the Mechanobiology Lab (MIT)
We are happy to announce that CTE-Lab PhD student Simone Bersini will spend six months at the Mechanobiology Lab headed by Prof. Roger D.
29/08/2012 Meet us at TERMIS-WC 2012 in Vienna (5-8 Sep)!
15/08/2012 Meet us at ESB 2012 in Patras (25-28 Aug)!

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