Conveners
S19 Complex architectures and non-planar approaches in Biofabrication
- Pasquale Posabella (Warsaw University of Technology)
- Pierpaolo Fucile (MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine)
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Shery Huang (University of Cambridge)15/09/2025, 13:30invited lecture
The functional and sensory augmentation of living structures, such as human skin and plant epidermis, with electronics can be used to create platforms for health management and environmental monitoring. Ideally, such bioelectronic interfaces should not obstruct the inherent sensations and physiological changes of their hosts. The full life cycle of the interfaces should also be designed to...
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Mark Skylar-Scott (Stanford University)15/09/2025, 13:50invited lecture
The first publication that presented embedded 3D printing was titled "Omnidirectional Printing". This term elegantly captured the ability to write non-planar and freeform filaments. However, the use of a support bath requires a physical bath to hold the gel, and allows entry only from the top. A truly omnidirectional method of 3D printing would enable printheads to construct parts from all...
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David Dean (University of Wisconsin-Madison)15/09/2025, 14:10podium presentation
Introduction: To this date, Melt Electrowriting (MEW) is primarily done on flat collectors for tissue engineering (TE) applications. There are no flat geometries in the body, so it is crucial to find ways to fabricate out-of-plane scaffolds that better conform to the shape of the targeted tissues. 6-axis robots have been used in MEW to move the printhead around a static collector for the...
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Pierpaolo Fucile (MERLN Institute for Technology-OInspired Regenerative Medicine)15/09/2025, 14:20podium presentation
Tissue Engineering (TE) and Regenerative Medicine (RM) seeks to mimic the complex structure and functionality of natural tissues, where directionally-dependent properties and negative Poisson's ratio behaviors are essential to guide cell migration and activity, ultimately leading to influencing tissue regeneration. These characteristics are fundamentally linked to fiber orientation and...
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Rahim Esfandyarpour (University of California Irvine)15/09/2025, 14:30podium presentation
The advancement of disease modeling and drug testing has been consistently limited by the shortcomings of conventional in vitro and in vivo models, which often fail to accurately replicate the complex microenvironment of human tissues. To address this issue, our study introduces an innovative in vivo-mimicking three-dimensional human colon model that reproduces the structural, mechanical,...
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Simon Sayer (TU Wien/ UpNano GmbH/ Austrian Cluster for Tissue Regeneration)15/09/2025, 14:40podium presentation
Introduction
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Animal models have been the gold standard for testing chemotherapeutic drugs, but less than 5 percent of drugs passed clinical trials between 2000 and 2015 [1]. Furthermore, regulatory agencies are mandating the reduction of animal testing [2]. We propose a tumor-on-a-chip model facilitated by multiphoton lithography (MPL), a high-resolution 3D printing technology that enables... -
Niklas Felix König (xolo GmbH)15/09/2025, 14:50podium presentation
Introduction
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Xolography is a scalable volumetric 3D printing technology[1] enabling rapid and precise fabrication of complex hydrogel structures[2]. Its recent adaptation for bioprinting has opened exciting possibilities for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine[3]. Yet, standard bioresins like GelMA have shown limited reactivity—a challenge recently addressed through smart formulation...