Living Matter Engineering and Biofabrication  research group

What an inspiring week! Biofabrication 2026 has been a blast, and we are now back at home with a backpack full of new ideas! All the best research from the International Society for Biofabrication was showcased in Monterrey, Mexico! Our lab Regenerative Medicine Utrecht was there with 6 podium presentations, 2 keynote lectures, and 2 science artworks, showing our recent progresses in the #biofabrication of developmental liver niches, advances in vascularized tissue engineerin

On October 14th and October 14th, we celebrated two newly minted Doctors at Utrecht University! Congrats to Nuria Gines Rodriguez and Nils Bessler! Nuria's thesis focused on the development of advanced in vitro models and organ-on-chip platforms to model joint inflammation and osteoarthritis. She worked on the convergence of laser induced forward transfer (LIFT) with melt electrowriting, microfluidic chips, and even printed artificial cells! Nils, who worked in the lab of Ann

🎓 Hora est ! There is a new Doctor in town, as this past Wednesday Marième Gueye brilliantly defended her PhD Thesis titled "Biofabrication Strategies for Making Hematopoietic Tissues". Huge congrats to Marième for this fantastic achievement! Since 2021, as part of the European Research Council (ERC) VOLUME-BIO project (grant agreement 949806), Marième developed different types of organoids for the co-culture, preservation and expansion of hematopoietic stem cells, the cells