Activities at the FHNW
Lableader 3D bioprinting and biohybrid microsystems
Research
The vision the 3D Bioprinting Group is to build cell-based biohybrid systems aimed for organs-on-chips as well as for implants aimed to enable personalized therapies/drugs and promote preventive healthcare respectively. With this goal in mind, the 3D Bioprinting Group was able to strengthen and prove its competences in the following fields:
3D Bioprinting
- Bioprinting of vascularized and innervated thick tissues.
- Toxicological assays (body on chip, 3R Animal Free Research).
- Cell and extracellular matrix based functional micro implants.
- Cell-laden hydrogels, single and multicellular.
- Bioinert support materials.
- Ceramics for dental implants.
- Modelling, simulation and validation of 3D printing processes.
Biohybrid Microsystems
- Cell based micro robotics.
- Bioengineered neuromuscular junctions.
Use biological cells to build implants! | TEDxFreiburg
Profile
Reviews & Awards
Journal reviewer
- Nanotechnology (IOP)
- Advanced Biosystems (Wiley)
- Sensors and Actuators (IEEE)
International conferences member
- IEEE NEMS TCP Member
- EURAXESS EU researcher meeting Tokyo (Co-Chair)
Awards
- FP7 Marie-Curie IOF Award
- EPFL Best Material Science Master Thesis Award (as supervisor)
- TEDxFreiburg Fellow