Research

Our interdisciplinary research combines bioengineering, cell and molecular biology, and computational modeling. In particular, we design microfluidic model systems to investigate the mechanisms of metastasis formation by cancer cells within in vivo-like microenvironments. We generate musculoskeletal and vascularized 3D constructs through novel biofabrication approaches and through advanced cell culture systems and custom-built bioreactors. We also work on the development of suitable models to study implant osteointegration and implant-related orthopedic infections.
In our 3D in vitro models we specifically employ human cells not to neglect specie-specific features and to overcome limitations related to possible differences in cell behavior and/or drug metabolism between animal and human cells.
 
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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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