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

25/06/2012 Meet us at ESB 2012 in Lisbon (1-4 Jul)!
20/05/2012 Silvia Lopa will spend one month at the Laboratory of Biology and Engineering of Cartilage (IBCP)
We are happy to announce that CTE-Lab PhD student Silvia Lopa will spend one month at the Laboratory of Biology and Engineering of Cartilage headed by Prof.
02/05/2012 Meet us at ICRS 2012 in Montreal (12-15 May)!
02/04/2012 Margherita Pierro will spend one month at the Bio-Microsystem Lab (University of Tsukuba)
We are happy to announce that CTE-Lab research fellow Margherita Pierro will spend one month at the Bio-Microsystem Lab headed by Prof. Junji Fukuda (University of Tsukuba, JP).
30/01/2012 Welcome to Nathalie Mayer (University of Lyon)!
We are happy to announce that Nathalie Mayer from University of Lyon (FR) will join our group for 6 months as visiting PhD student.

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