The International Conference for Biofabrication's first time in Latin America

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 engineering, new materials for #bioprinting, miniaturized heart models, diabetes models, optogenetics technologies and more, also with the first-time presentations by Charlotte Brice and Estée Grandidier. It was also a pleasure to connect with emerging and early career scientists throughout the conference and at the meet the mentors lunch. And at the fun Loteria at the conference dinner, where a #volumetric #bioprinter appeared in the bingo cards!

It was a great time to catch up with friends and celebrate also the prestigious young investigator award won by Paulina Nunez Bernal, together with the success of the other friends and ISBF awardees of 2026 Gabriele Maria Fortunato, Aleksandr Ovsianikov, and Jason Burdick

Thanks to all the members of the ISBF community that always make this yearly conference amazing, and huge thanks and congrats to Grissel Trujillo-de Santiago, Mario Moisés Alvarez, and Yu Shrike Zhang for showing such exquisite hostmanship and for making the first ISBF conference in Latin America a huge success, and for sharing with us the unique culture of the Dia de Muertos and the folklore and natural beauty of Mexico. The relay now is taken up by Liliang Ouyang and Wei Sun for the 2027 in Haikou, China!