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Biofabrication2026

Technical Program

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Poster Presentation Schedule

Track 1. Biomaterials, Hydrogels and Bioinks

• Adaptative Matrices: Engineering Next-Generation Hydrogels for Tissue and Disease Modeling 1
Chairs:
Prof. Andrea Cosola (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Prof. Desirée Baruffaldi (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
  • 3D-printed DNA-responsive hydrogels – Cristiana Drago
  • Electroconductive and Magnetic Fiber-Laden Hydrogels for 3D-Bioprinting Applications – Salomé Luís
  • Stiffness-Dependent Drug Transport, Cancer Cell Response, and Tumor Heterogeneity in GelMA and PCL Short Fiber Composites – Gelareh Ganjikho
  • AddGraft: A versatile, biocompatible additive for light-based 3D patterning of physical and chemical signals within hydrogel networks – Paulina Nunez Bernal
Chairs:
Prof. Andrea Cosola (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Prof. Desirée Baruffaldi (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

Keynote: Miguel Dias Castilho
  • Dynamic Modulation of the Microenvironment Promotes Functional Maturation of Engineered Tissues – Eric Silberman
  • Engineering viscoelastic hydrogels to control epithelial responses under confinement – Sylvain Gabriele
  • A Multi-Material 3D Bioprinted Platform with Mechanical Heterogeneity for Fibrosis Modeling and Antifibrotic Drug Screening – Aidee V Arizpe Tafoya
Chairs:
Prof. Luis Marcelo Lozano (Tecnológico de Monterrey, México)
Prof. Angelica Sanchez Lopez (Tecnológico de Monterrey, México)

Keynote: Gilson Khang
  • Cross-Platform Bioinks and Surface-Engineered Nanozymes Integrated in Volumetrically Printed Perfusable Tumor Models – Armin Shavandi
  • Engineered Supramolecular Nanostructures for Tissue Regeneration – Lihi Adler-Abramovich
  • Regenerative Bioinks: Material-Intrinsic Properties Drive Immune-Guided Bone Repair – Tanmay Gupta
  • Development of a photodegradable bioink to improve the scale and complexity of organoid tissue models – Max Yavitt
  • Development of a room-temperature printable dECM-based bioink for extrusion 3D bioprinting – Bruna Alice Gomes de Melo
Chairs:
Prof. Luis Marcelo Lozano (Tecnológico de Monterrey, México)
Prof. Angelica Sanchez Lopez (Tecnológico de Monterrey, México)
  • Multifunctional Nanoparticle Strategy for Biofabrication of Anisotropic Electroactive Tissues – Fang Zhou
  • DLP-printable, stiff, tough, and fatigue-resistant hydrogels with ordered nanostructures for biomedical applications – Arkodip Mandal
  • Redistributing Oxygen Availability to Resolve Matrix Inhomogeneity in Engineered Human Cartilage – Lilith Mabel Caballero Aguilar
  • Carbon Dots as Intrinsic Photocatalysts and Multifunctional Therapeutic Agents for In Situ Hydrogel Biofabrication  – Manuel Ahumada
  • Overcoming oxygen inhibition to improve hydrogel formation in lithography-based biofabrication strategies – Max Yavitt
  • Supramolecular-covalent dynamic gelatin bioresins for advanced volumetric bioprinting of cell-permissive tissue models – Paulina Nunez Bernal
Chair:
Khoon Lim (University of Sydney, Australia)

Keynote speakers: Prof. Jelena Rnjak-Kovacina (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Prof. Yu Shrike Zhang (Harvard Medical School, USA)
  • Engineered dynamic bioinks with independent biochemical and mechanosignaling for biomedical for biomedical applications – Renato Navarro
  • From Light to Life: Gelatin hydrogels for light based bioprinting – Jasper Van Hoorick
  • The influence of Pore Architecture in Extrusion-Bioprinted Scaffolds for Skin Regeneration: A Systematic Review – Karina Vanzan Maio
  • An optimized GelMA bioink formulation for high-fidelity extrusion 3D bioprinting at physiological temperature – Eduardo González-Martínez
  • Engineering MMP-responsive hydrogels to prevent fibrotic activation of stromal cells in corneal wound healing – Cagla Erdas

Chairs:
Ali Ahmadi (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada)
Ali Tamayol (University of Connecticut, USA)
Hossein Ravanbakhsh (University of Akron, USA)
Mohamadmahdi Samandari (Old Dominion University, USA)

Keynote: Mary Monroe
  • 4D printing of responsive gelatin-based granular hydrogels – Micaela Fernandes
  • Enhancing the Stability of Albumin Foam Support Baths with Xanthan Gum for Embedded Bioprinting – Ali Ahmadi
  • Microfluidic 3D bioprinting of hierarchical macroporous scaffolds with tailored architecture and composition – Federico Serpe
  • Macroporous Gelatin-based Microgel Bioinks with Tunable Mechanics for Engineering Biomimetic 3D Cell Microenvironments – Min-Hsuan Lin
Chairs:
Ali Ahmadi (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada)
Ali Tamayol (University of Connecticut, USA)
Hossein Ravanbakhsh (University of Akron, USA)
Mohamadmahdi Samandari (Old Dominion University, USA)
  •  Self-Architectured Gels to Recreate Biomimetic Cellular Microenvironment – Dumas Simon
  • Biofabrication of Porous Multiphase Shape-memory Constructs for Tissue Engineering – Hossein Ravanbakhsh
  • Fabrication of Injectable and Stable Macroporous Fibrous Scaffolds via Fiber Entanglement – Alexander R Favela
  • Developing Injectable Dual Macro-porous Hydrogels for Enhancing Therapeutic Cell Delivery – Pakshid Hosseinzadeh
  • In situ printing of tissue adhesive macroporous scaffolds for regenerative medicine – Mohamadmahdi Samandari
Chair:
Francisco M. Fernandes (Sorbonne University, France)

Keynote Speaker:
João Mano (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
  • Bi-layered biomimetic flap for urethral reconstruction – Isabelle Martinier
  • From ice templating to cryopreservation: Directional freezing as a tool to control the cellular freezing microenviorment  – Natalia Ortiz Silva
  • Engineering macroporous electroactive biomaterials as platforms to study the bioelectric code in osteoimmunology  – Astrid de Laporte
  • Anisotropic PVA-Based Hydrogels Toward Mechanically Functional Arterial Tissue Models – Ulises A Aregueta Robles
Chair:
Prof. Shabir Hassan (Department of Biological Sciences, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates)
Dr. Wanjun Liu (Donghua University, Shanghai, China)

Keynote speakers:
Prof. João Mano (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Prof. Peter Corridon (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates)
Prof. Shabir Hassan (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates)
Prof. Ricardo Levato (Utrecht University, Clinical Sciences, Netherlands)
  • Multifunctional dECM-derived Scaffold for Second-Degree Burn Wound Healing. – Kamalipriya S S
  • Green routes to sustainable keratin extraction and preparation of biomaterials for wound healing – Amrita Das
  • Decellularized Extracellular Matrix Based Hydrogel Systems for Treating Different Wounds – Shabir Hassan
Chairs:
Dr. Marianelly Esquivel Alfaro (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica)
Dr. Belkis Sulbarán Rangel (Universidad de Guadalajara, México)
  •  Engineering chitosan-alginate PEC biohydrogels as 3D bioprinted plant-growth substrates through pH, composition, and post-processing control – Valerio Pochetti
  • 3D-Printable Bioadhesive for Adhesion in Wet and Physiological Environments – Margarida M. Amador Sacramento
  • Development of Bioactive PVA/CTS-HAp Scaffolds via 3D Bioprinting: A Circular Economy Approach – Juana Yesenia Ramos
  • Orthogonally tunable human-based living bioink – João Rocha Maia
  • Copper-modified Kaolin in Vat-based 3D-bioprinted Silk-Pectin Hydrogels Synergistically Promote Osteogenesis, Angiogenesis, and Antimicrobial Properties – Yusuf O Waidi
Chairs:
Dr. Marianelly Esquivel Alfaro (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica)
Dr. Belkis Sulbarán Rangel (Universidad de Guadalajara, México)
  • Beyond Chemical Modification: Native Gelatin as a Simple, Low-Cost and Valuable Platform for Light-Based Biofabrication – Andrea Cosola
  • Nanopolysaccharide hydrogels from pineapple and shrimp residues as material platforms for biofabrication – Marianelly Esquivel-Alfaro
  • GAG based bioink for high resolution printing of single network, high stiffness hydrogels – Prashant K. Sharma
  • Nanocellulose Hydrogels with Tunable Rheology for Filament Fidelity in 3D Bioprinting – Zinia Anjuman Ara
Keynote: João Mano, Riccardo Levato, Peter Corridon
  • Multifunctional dECM-derived Scaffold for Second-Degree Burn Wound Healing – Kamalipriya S S
  • Green routes to sustainable keratin extraction and preparation of biomaterials for wound healing – Amrita Das
  • Decellularized Extracellular Matrix Based Hydrogel Systems for Treating Different Wounds – Shabir Hassan

Track 2. Advanced Bioprinting Technologies and Manufacturing Strategies

• Frontiers in FRESH and Embedded 3D Bioprinting 1
Chairs:
Prof. Daniel Shiwarski, Ph.D. (School of Medicine and Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, USA)

Keynote: Victoria Webster-Wood
  • A FRESH-Printed Human Colon Model for In Vitro Disease Modeling and Drug Response Evaluation – Jorge Alfonso Tavares Negrete
  • Advancing the bioprinting of soft tissues: from 3D neural constructs supporting cellular elongation to cerebral organoids maturation – Miriam Seiti
  • Microfluidic-Assisted 3D Printing of Functionally Graded Porous Ceramic Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering – Maria Celeste Tirelli
  • Development and Validation of a High-Speed Omnidirectional 3D Printer for the Rapid Biofabrication of Adult-sized Organ Constructs – Zi Chang Rao
  • Embedded Bioprinting with Dual Crosslink Hydrogels: Toward Functional Blood-Brain Barrier Models – Bahattin Koc
Chairs:
Prof. Daniel Shiwarski, Ph.D. (School of Medicine and Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, USA)

Keynote: Sarah C Heilshorn
  • A collagen fibrillation inducing support bath for embedded 3D printing of collagen-based inks – Giovanni Gonnella
  • FRESH 3D Bioprinted Seminiferous Tubule-like Scaffolds – Alec J Kramer
  • A Sacrificial Support Strategy for Cell-driven Compaction Prevention in Bioprinted Constructs – Eric Calderon-Robles
  • Visible-Light-Cleavable Sacrificial Microgel for Embedded Bioprinting and On-Demand Dissolution – Hafez Jafari
  • Chia Seed-Derived Mucilage as a Plant-Based Support Bath for Embedded Bioprinting – Bugra Ayan
  • Direct cell writing for rapid formation of cell-dense constructs – Megan Farrow
Chairs:
Prof. Andrew Daly (University of Galway, Ireland)
Jason Burdick (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)

Keynote: Yong Huang, Mark Skylard-Scott, Rui Domingues
  • A Miniaturized Omnidirectional Bioprinting System for Complex Organ-scale Construct Fabrication – Dong Gyu Hwang
  • Advancing Bioprinting through Materials, Methods, and Hardware – Jianyu Li
  • Modelling human urinary tract morphogenesis and dysgenesis in vitro using bioprinting – Pinelopi Apostolaki
Chairs:
Prof. Dr. Andrés Díaz Lantada (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid & IMDEA Materials Institute, Spain)
Prof. Carmelo De Maria (University of Pisa, Italia)

Keynote: Irene Chiesa
  • 3D-printed carbon microlattices: A novel scaffold platform for musculoskeletal tissue engineering – Monsur Islam
  • Tailored Bioreactors Facilitate Cellular Remodeling in 4D Bioprinted Constructs for Cardiovascular Applications – Roman Matejka
  • Perfusion‑Driven 4D Remodeling of Microchannelled Collagen Constructs for Vascular and Soft Tissue Replacements – Denisa Kanokova
  • Biomimetic interlocking pyrolytic carbon building blocks: a modular, minimally invasive strategy for bone defects – Andrés Díaz Lantada
Chairs:
Prof. Dr. Andrés Díaz Lantada (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid & IMDEA Materials Institute, Spain)
Prof. Carmelo De Maria (University of Pisa, Italia)

Keynote: Menglin Chen
  • Personalized Dual-Scaffold Platform with Tunable Biomaterials for Osteochondral Regeneration – Monica Echeverry Rendon
  • Micro-CT Enables 3D Visualization of Cell–Material Interactions at Single-Cell Resolution In Vitro – Pablo Varela
  • Light-Programmable and Digital Light Processing 3D Printed Hydrogels – Manuela Garay-Sarmiento
  • Bioinks development for 4D bioprinting of osteochondral scaffold via cell contractility‑driven shape morphing – Joanna Idaszek
Chairs:
Prof. Wojciech Święszkowski, Ph.D. (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)

Keynote: Yunzhi Peter Yang
  • Chaotic bioprinting of microcompartmentalized skeletal muscle constructs using bioinks enriched with minimallyprocessed tissue (MPT) for structured cultivated meat – Ana Sofía García
  • Extruded droplet-on-demand (X-DoD) bioprinting for controlled iPSC-based functional cortical network formation – Elisabeth Riska
  • A Multimaterial Volumetric Bioprinting Platform for Heterogeneous Cornea Tissue Fabrication – Daniel Nieto
  • Innovative multifunctional toolheads for the colonoscopic delivery of biomaterials in-situ – Gabriele Maria Fortunato
Chairs:
Prof. Wojciech Święszkowski, Ph.D. (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)
  • Chaotic bioprinting of compartmentalized myoblast/fibroblasts co-cultures for enhanced myogenesis – Rosa Angelica Gonzalez Vilchis
  • A multimaterial extrusion device with integrated optical crosslinking for minimally invasive cartilage repair – Giovanni Vozzi
  • Multimaterial Volumetric Bioprinting of Lymphatic Tumoroids for Modeling Tumor–Lymphatic Interactions – Adrian Garcia
  • GEM : Gradient Embedded Multinozzle 3D Printing – Soham Sinha
Chairs:
Javier Vazquez Armendariz (The Ohio State University, USA)

Keynote: Max von Witzleben
  • Volumetrically Printed Porous Hydrogels as Tissue-Mimetic Platforms for Ultrasound-Enhanced Drug Delivery – Julia Stanny
  • Towards MEW integrated multi-material biofabrication of hierarchially organised osteochondral constructs – Nupur Sharma
  • 3D bone printing via primed differentiation of stem cells with ultrasound (3DBonUS) – Martina Marcotulli
  • Integrating chaotic patterning into continuous electrospun yarns for fibrous biomedical constructs – Omar Cano
  • Multi-Axis Direct Ink Writing of Architected Hydrogel Scaffolds: Recapitulating Tissue Anisotropy for Regulated Cell Migration and Vascularization – Sabarinathan Senthil Kumar
Chairs:
Javier Vazquez Armendariz (The Ohio State University, USA)
  • Engineering Gelatin–PEGDA Resins: Linking Temperature-Dependent Rheology to TVAM Performance – Katherine Houlahan
  • Towards Reproducible Melt Electrowriting on an Open-Source Platform: Process Capability and Scaffold Characterization. – Sylvia I Valadez-Rojas
  • Pore Size Regulates Time to Confluence and Thin Membrane Formation in Melt Electrowritten Microtextile Scaffolds  – Tanya Djemal
  • Thermoforming Fabrication of Non-Planar Hybrid Melt Electrowritten Textiles for Tissue Engineering Applications – William J Hook
  • Building community around Melt Electrowriting through the promotion of training programs and open-access systems – Javier Vazquez-Armendariz
  • Resin 3D Printing Enables Accessible Hybrid-Fabrication of Microphysiological Systems (MPS) using Natural Hydrogels – Jacob Dairaghi
Prof. Daniel Nieto García (Advanced Scientific Research Center - CICA; University of Coruña, Spain)

Keynote speaker: Prof. Daniel Nieto García (Advanced Scientific Research Center - CICA; University of Coruña, Spain)
  • Intracellular 3D printing – Liang Ma
  • Red-Light Tomographic Volumetric 3D Printing in Seconds for Fabrication of Colorless Structures – Ali Eftekhari
  • Volumetric bioprinting of a perfusable tumor model for advanced drug screening applications – Nadina A Usseglio
  • 3D Optical Fiber Assisted Bioprinting, a novel light-based 3d bioprinting system capable of printing high cell concentration and opaque materials – Maximilian Uwe Pfeiffle
  • Engineering Tumor Microenvironments: Bioprinted Hydrogels in Breast Cancer Research – Helen Holzke-Pfaff
Prof. Daniel Nieto García (Advanced Scientific Research Center - CICA; University of Coruña, Spain)

Keynote speaker: Prof. Daniel Nieto García (Advanced Scientific Research Center - CICA; University of Coruña, Spain)
  • Light-Enabled Volumetric Bioprinting of GelMA-CMCMA Bioinks for Cellular Network Formation and Lumenized Constructs – Jagoda Litowczenko
  • Optical Tomography enables Density Based Adaptive and Context-Aware Volumetric Printing – Gabriel Größbacher
  • Computational filamented-light: in-silico modelling for process optimization in the biofabrication of highly aligned tissue engineered constructs – Giovanni Vozzi
  • Lux Chaotic (LuCha) (Bio)Printing: A Light-Driven Platform for Hierarchically Micro-architected Hydrogel Constructs – Grissel Trujillo-de Santiago
  • Mechanically heterogeneous 3D hydrogel models enabled by mechanoscribed Xolography drive cell-material interaction – Tom van Hattem
  • Surface Area-to-Volume Ratio as a Design Parameter Governing Cell Proliferation and Coverage in Light-Based Bioprinted Constructs – Damian Mateo Zúñiga-Cárdenas
  • Development of a digital light processing 3D bioprinted melanoma model for the characterisation of tumour cell behaviour – Lissinda H Du Plessis
Keynote: Simon Luposchainsky
  • Melt electrowriting: from material design and hardware development to biomedical applications – Petra Mela
  • Towards patient specific vascular grafts through 4D bioprinting: Combining shape morphing, melt electrowriting and mesenchymal stromal cell incorporation – Emily Fichter
  • Multifunctional melt electrowritten composite scaffolds incorporating mesoporous SiO2–HA particles for bone tissue engineering and localized therapeutic delivery – Bahattin Koc
  • Hydrogel–Electromagnetic Biohybrid Systems Direct Neural Morphogenesis across Central and Peripheral Systems – Menglin Chen
  • Robotic Melt Electrowriting and Hydrogel Casting for Fabrication of complex anatomical structures – Mohammad Jouybar
Keynote:  Y. Shrike Zhang, Jelena Rnjak-Kovacina
  • Biofabrication strategies at sub-zero temperatures: From cell-laden hydrogels to soft bioelectronic constructs – Joshua Weygant
  • Integrated cryobioprinting platform for controlled ice templating and predictive porous microarchitecture design – Afonso Gusmão
  • Automated Cryobiomanufacturing of Human-Relevant Tissue Models for Scalable Drug Development – Carlos E Garciamendez
Keynote: Nasim Annabi
  • Double layer tubular collagen materials obtained by ice templated for vascular and tracheal applications – Francisco M. Fernandes
  • Engineering a Biomimetic Trilayered Scaffold via Hybrid Electrospinning-Bioprinting for Urethral Tissue Reconstruction – Hanh A Nguyen
  • FRESH-Bioprinted Vascular Constructs as a Quantitative Platform for Device-Oriented Benchmarking – Franca Scocozza
  • Microfluidic Patterning of Human Brain Endothelial Cells for Blood Brain Barrier Models – Nicole Hashemi
  • A Tri-Layered Multimaterial, Micro-Patterned hiPSC-Derived Vascular Graft with Enhanced Endothelialization via Shear Redistribution – Jagoda Litowczenko
Keynote: João Mano
  • Bi-layered biomimetic flap for urethral reconstruction – Isabelle Martinier
  • From ice templating to cryopreservation: Directional freezing as a tool to control the cellular freezing microenvironment  – Natalia Ortiz Silva
  • Engineering macroporous electroactive biomaterials as platforms to study the bioelectric code in osteoimmunology – Astrid de Laporte
  • Anisotropic PVA-Based Hydrogels Toward Mechanically Functional Arterial Tissue Models – Ulises A Aregueta Robles

Track 3. Tissue-Specific and Organ-Oriented Biofabrication

• Biofabrication of Soft Tissues 1
Chairs:
Vijayavenkataraman Sanjairaj (New York University, Abu Dhabi)

Keynote: Guohao Dai
  • Conductive Nanocomposite Bioinks for Bioprinting of Bioactive Nerve Guidance Conduits – Sanjairaj Vijayavenkataraman
  • Modular Biofabrication of Composite Scaffolds for Hierarchical and Biomimetic Breast Tissue Engineering – Asaf Silverstein
  • A Biomimetic Vascularized 3D Hepatic Lobule Model with Dynamic Perfusion – Silvia Fare
  • A tunable gelatin bioink toolbox for light-based biofabrication of lumenized constructs for urethral repair – Nele Pien
  • 3D bioprinted pigmented human skin for translational drug testing across skin phototypes – Jessica Heline Lopes da Fonseca
  • Bioprinting-assisted Tissue Assembly of Volumetric and Hypoimmunogenic Liver Grafts – Daekeun Kim
Chairs:
Vijayavenkataraman Sanjairaj (New York University, Abu Dhabi)
  • Sequential Fabrication of a Three-Layer Retina-Like Structure – Yahel Shechter
  • Aqueous two-phase system (ATPS) wet-spinning of oriented porous hydrogel fibers for enhanced cell colonization for skeletal muscle tissue engineering – Marina Volpi
  • Development of a volumetrically bioprinted iPSC-derived foetal liver-like niche in a chemically defined hydrogel for assessing HSC homing and expansion – Charlotte Brice
  • Bioprinted Liver Constructs Harnessing Liver Decellularized Extracellular Matrix and Functional Hepatocytes for Liver – Dayoon Kang
  • Design, Construction and Validation of a Cost-efficient Modular Open-source Volumetric Bioprinter – Joshua Lecoupe
Chair:
Khoon Lim (University of Sydney, Australia)

Keynote: Jason Burdick
  • Structural design of a high-load biodegradable implant as a titanium alternative – Fernanda E. Ita León
  • KR-12 Functionalized Collagen Ink with Antimicrobial Activity and Potential Osteogenic Support for Bone Regeneration – Carlos Palo-Nieto
  • Multilayered extracellular matrix–derived scaffolds direct progenitor cell differentiation in vitro and osteochondral-tissue formation in vivo – Giovanni Gonnella
Chair:
Khoon Lim (University of Sydney, Australia)

Keynote: Gulden Camci-Unal
  • 3D Bioprinted Metal Implants – Plasma-Assisted Controlled Post-Processing for Tissue Integration – Dorota Bociaga
  • Hybrid Biofabrication of a Multizonal Osteochondral Interface Model Using Fibrous Scaffolds and Methacrylated Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels – Edvinas Krugly
  • Flip-scaffold technique with biomimetic MEW/MEF fibers to recapitulate the arcade architecture of cartilage – Mohammad Jouybar
  • A functional atlas of chondrocyte sources for cartilage biofabrication – Philipp Fisch
  • Association of three-dimensional spheroids of human adipose tissue stromal cells with nanostructured carbonated hydroxyapatite for bone bioengineering – Bianca Montenegro
Chairs:
Dr. Marco Costantini (Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Prof. Gargioli Cesare (Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy)

Keynote: Sahar Salehi-Müller
  • Chaotic-assisted Rotary Wet-Spinning (C-RoWS) for the Generation of Compartmentalized Skeletal Muscle Fibers with Embedded Fibro-Adipogenic Progenitors – Fabio Maiullari
  • Light-Driven Biohybrid Actuator for biomedical applications – Alessandro Minali
  • “Endoplasmic reticulum stress-driven in vitro model of aortic aneurysms for mechanistic studies and therapeutic targeting via Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor activation” – activation”
    Ivan Torre-Villavalzo
  • Perivascular stem/progenitor cells, up-and-coming tissue regenerating route – Cesare Gargioli
Chairs:
Prof. Sahar Salehi-Müller (University of Hohenheim, Germany)
Dr. Gerardo Cedillo-Servin (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)

Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Miguel Dias Moisés
Dr. Marco Costantini (Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
  • Non-Genetic Optical Actuation of Biofabricated Muscle Models via Organic Molecular Phototransducers – Andrea Andolfi
  • Biofabricated Skeletal Muscle Tissues Reveal Multi-Scale Dysfunction and Therapeutic Rescue Under Simulated Microgravity – Beu P Oropeza
  • Magnetically Driven Mechanotransduction for Enhanced Skeletal Muscle Differentiation – Sahar Salehi-Mueller
  • Engineering of Functional Smooth Muscle Cell-Based Tubular Tissue – Eynav Livne
  • One-step spatial photo-programming of myocyte alignment in 3D patterned hydrogels via grayscale light-sheet volumetric bioprinting – Gerardo Cedillo-Servin
Chair: Prof. Elena Juan Prado (The University of Western Australia)
Keynote speaker: Prof. Jelena Rnjak-Kovacina (University of Sydney)
  • Volumetric Biofabrication and 3D printing for the design and fabrication of a human biological ventricular assist device – Irati Valdivielso
  • Long-term stimulation of human engineered cardiac tissues using a novel cardiomimetic system – Norma Andrea Chagoya Pio
  • Optoelectronic cardiac modulation and perfusable vascular conduits for cardiovascular translation – Sushila Maharjan
  • Cationic ECM hydrogels for charge-mediated modulation of the pericellular ionic microenvironment to promote cardiac tissue maturation – Minji Kim
  • Using Transcriptomics to decipher in vivo engineered cardiac tissue failure – Manuel M Mazo Vega
  • Engineering Structural and Vascular Stability in Human Cardiac Tissues through Integrated Materials and Cellular Strategies – Shira Landau-Levi
Chair: Daniel Nieto García (Advanced Scientific Research Center - CICA; University of Coruña, Spain)

Keynote: Alberto Otero
  • Correlative Contrast-Enhanced Micro-CT for 3D Imaging of Oral Hard-Soft Tissue Interfaces and Vascularization – Torben Hildebrand
  • Bioprinted Oral Mucosa Model for Cytotoxicity Assessment of 3D‑Printed Denture Base Resin – Amanda Costa Ferro
  • Cisplatin-Conjugated Iron-Doped Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles as Functional Biomaterials for Enhanced Therapeutic Response in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Models – Rijma Khan
Keynote: Arnold Ju
  • Patient-specific “Physical Twin” artery-on-chip platform reveals complex flow-dependent VWF mechanobiology and guides personalized antithrombotic therapy – Yunduo Charles Zhao
  • Development Of A 3D Bioprinted Microporous Collagen Platform for Diagnosis/Research of Clotting Disorders – Antonio J Pereira Tavares
  • Effects of ECM Stiffness and PDGFB on BBB Function in an Engineered Brain Microvessel-on-a-Chip – Jonathan J. Adorno
  • Engineering a Perfused Gelatin Methacryloyl (GelMA)-Based Vascular Millifluidic Platform for Advanced 3D Tissue Models – Cesare Gabriele Gaglio

Track 4. Vascularization, Microphysiological Systems & Disease Models

• Advanced 3D and 4D Bioprinting Strategies for Engineering Biomimetic, Vascularized Tissues
Keynote speakers:
Shulamit Levenberg, Yanliang Zhang
  • Volumetric Bioprinting of Perfusable and Fully Endothelialized Vessels Model
  • Hybrid bioprinting of hierarchical vascular networks
  • 3D-Bioprinted Conductive Cardiopatches with Integrated Vascularization and Anisotropic Architecture for the Post-MI Treatment
  • 4D Printing of Vascularized Cardiac Tissues with Selective Fast-Shrinking Capillaries
  • Artificial capillaries-on-a-chip with modular control over lumen size, architecture, in situ modifications and co-culture conditions
  • Self-Driving Multimaterial Bioprinting of Human Ventricular Models from Isogenic Vascularized Cardiac Microtissues and Elastomers
Chairs:
Prof. Shulamit Levenberg (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology)
Prof. Shira Landau (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology)
  • From avascular constructs to living tissues: engineering vascularized bioprinted skin
  • The construction of vascularized liver tissue and liver fibrosis model with embedded 3D bioprinting
  • Thermosensitive Hybrid Bioprinting for Mechanically Robust and Vascularized Bone Regeneration
  • Measuring the Dose of Tethered (Conjugated) Growth Factor Ligands to Chaotic Printed, Micro-channeled, Hydrogel Microvascular Appendage Sheets (MAS)
Chairs:
Prof. Gabriella C.J. Lindberg, PhD (University of Oregon, Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, Bioengineering)
Prof. Luiz E. Bertassoni DDS, PhD (Knight Cancer Institute / Oregon Health Campus; Science University)
  • Interfacial stress-mediated emergence of drug resistance is driven by cancer shape in printed breast cancer-host tissue models
  • A biofabricated tumoroid-on-chip model of ovarian cancer uncovers Pin1-driven vascular remodeling and platinum resistance
  • Tumor-on-a-chip of cocultured colorectal cancer spheroids and fibroblasts using chaotic bioprinting, for the study of Colorectal Cancer
  • A Tumor-on-a-Chip Platform and Engineered Hydrogel System for Studying Cytotoxic Lymphocyte Infiltration into the Solid Tumor Stroma
  • STENCL Bioprinting: A New Approach for High-Resolution Biofabrication of Tumor Avatars with Native Spatial Organization
Chairs:
Prof. Luiz E. Bertassoni DDS, PhD (Knight Cancer Institute / Oregon Health Campus; Science University)
Prof. Gabriella C.J. Lindberg, PhD (University of Oregon, Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, Bioengineering)
  • Biofabrication of human 3D neuromuscular microenvironment to study cancer-associated cachexia
  • Integrating multimaterial chaotic bioprinting with 3D-printed millifluidic organ-on-chip systems to engineer and sustain perfused, microarchitected tumor niches
  • A Foreign Body Response-on-Chip for evaluation of safety and immunocompatibility of new biomaterials
  • A Recoverable Lung-on-a-Chip Platform for RNA-Based Therapeutic Screening
  • Anisotropic Fiber-Guided Migration Model for In Vitro Glioblastoma Studies and Drug Screening
Chairs:
Prof. Luiz E. Bertassoni DDS, PhD (Knight Cancer Institute / Oregon Health Campus; Science University)
Prof. Gabriella C.J. Lindberg, PhD (University of Oregon, Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, Bioengineering)
  • Bone Multicellular Unit on a Chip (BMU-Chip) Subjected to Cyclic Mechanical Loading
  • Quantification of CAR T-Cell Migration through Confined Tumour Microenvironments using 2PP-Printed Bio-Inspired Geometries
  • Biofabrication of a 3D perfusable, anatomical cancer vasculature model for integrated drug delivery studies
  • Biofabrication strategies for evaluating cochlear implant electrodes on the bench

Track 5. Community Building

• ISBF Early Career Researchers Symposium
Chairs:
Philipp Fisch (ETH Zürich, Department fo Health Sciences, Switzerland)
Hossein Ravanbakhsh (The University of Akron, USA)
  • Career development for early career researchers
  • Transition to independence as an early career PI
  • Starting and managing a research lab
  • Academic and industry career pathways
  • Publishing strategies and peer review processes
  • Grant writing and funding opportunities
  • Translating research to industry and startups
Chairs:
Prof. Dr. Aleksandr Ovsianikov (Head of the research group 3D Printing and Biofabrication at the TU Wien, Austria)
  • Challenges for start-ups in the Biofab arena
  • The balance between science and marketing
  • From the lab to the market: An exciting journal
  • Stories of success and crisis
  • Lessons learned in the process of searching for funding
Chairs:
Prof. Carlos Mota (MERLN at University of Maastricht, The Netherlands)
  • Building an Open-Source Rheodialysis Community for Biofabrication: Real-Time Coupling of Chemical Exchange and Rheological Characterization – Sabrina Küspert
  • Modular Environmental Control Chamber for Retrofitting a Prusa i3 into a Low-Cost Bioprinting Platform  – Dominic Orozco-
  • Modular adaptation of consumer-grade 3D printers for dual-mode thermoplastic and hydrogel bioprinting – J. Adán López-Castro
  • Building Bioprinting Hubs in Resource-Limited Settings – Rocío Hernández-Rizo
  • From Slicing to Toolpath Design: A Workflow for Hybrid Biofabrication – Lukas Weber
  • Design and construction of an open-source, low-cost bioprinter featuring a flexible design meant for future user customization – Aidan MacAdam
  • Development of a low-cost fluorescent imaging technique for continuous real-time monitoring of vascular perfusion in human tissue or engineered bio-materials – Serag Saleh
Chair: Prof. Koichi Nakayama, M.D., Ph.D. (Saga University School of Medicine, Japan)
  • Biofabrication-related Technology developed by/in Industry  
  • Scaling biofabrication technology of biofabrication products
  • New commercial  products, services, and technology for the biofabrication community
  • Industrial/commercial applications of biofabrication technologies
  • Bioprinting and biofabrication at scale
  • Teaching Biofabrication: Examples, experiences in the classroom and lab
Chair: Prof. Grissel Trujillo/de Santiago (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey)
  • Synthesis of Hybrid PVA Nanofibers by Electrospinning with Carbon Quantum Dots as Molecular Sensor – José Daniel Tovar
  • A 3D model to study Alzheimer´s disease metabolic risk factors – Raúl Loera-Valencia

Track 6. Biofabrication for Emerging Applications

• Biofabrication of Food
Chair:
Prof. Shulamit Levenberg (Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)

Keynote speaker:
Prof. Yu Shrike Zhang (Harvard Medical School, USA)
  • From Batch to Sheet – High-speed bioprinting technology for scalable bioproduction of textured meat precursors – Andreas Blaeser
  • Biofabrication of Gellan- and Plant Protein-Based Hybrid Constructs for Cultivated Meat Incorporating Adipose Spheroids – Petra J Kluger
  • Microfluidic fabrication of GelMA microgels enables myogenic maturation and modular assembly of muscle-like microtissues for cultivated meat applications – Juan F. Yee-de León
  • Chaotic Bioprinting for Cultured Meat: Fabrication of Edible Gelatin-based Muscle Filaments via Enzymatic Crosslinking – Héctor Ambriz González
  • Applying dynamic biomaterial designs and controlled extrusion forces towards anisotropic muscle cell development for cultivated meat – David Kilian
Chairs:
Prof. Giovanni Vozzi (University of Pisa, Italy)
Prof. Marcy Zenoby-Wong (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Keynote: Gabriele Maria Fortunato
  • Integrating State-of-the-Art In Situ Bioprinting Technologies for Complex Tissue Reconstruction – Felipe Mateus Franco
  • Design and construction of a 3D Bioprinter with an integrated superficial quality sensor for printed scaffolds – Edgar Martinez Huaracha
  • Reducing Anisotropy in Bone-surrogate PLA Implants through Multi-Axis 3D Printing – Felipe Mateus Franco
  • Injectable Stimuli-Responsive Amphiphilic Hydrogel for Rapid Hemostasis, Tissue Adhesion, and Controlled Drug Delivery – Arvind K. Singh Chandel
  • A Hand-Held Biopen Enables High-Throughput and Morphology-Controlled Fabrication of Lymphatic Spheroids/Tumoroids – Kara Van Zyl
  • In-situ 3D reconstruction and non-planar trajectory generation for colorectal bioprinting – Carmelo De Maria
Chairs:
José Rubén Morones Ramírez (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México)
  • Sustainable cellulose nanofibrils as ultrasound-driven piezoelectric interfaces for wireless neuromodulation – Kjeld Kaj Klompmaker
  • Engineering, characterization, and optimization of fiber meshes with chemically and temporally distinct compartments for ELM fabrication – Robin Wilhelm
  • Spatially Programmed Biointerfaces via Bioinspired Microstructured Surfaces for Enhanced Functional Integration – Yusheng Zhang
  • Anisotropic rod microgels enable programmable cellular alignment and functional maturation for hierarchical tissue manufacturing – Esfandyar Askari
  • 3D printing Process Optimization in Multimaterial biofabrication: Integrating conductive Inks with photosensitive resins towards sensorized microfluidics – Miriam Seiti
  • Engineering Wearable Illumination Devices for Photosynthetic Biomaterial–Mediated Oxygenation in Advanced Wound Care – Pablo Rozas
  • 3D Bioprinting of Integrated Cell-Material Interfaces for Living Bioelectronic Tissues – Roni Cohen
Keynote: Patrick Thayer
  • AI-Enabled Detection of Geometrical Deviations in Two-Photon Photopolymerization of Large-Scale Biomedical Scaffolds -Silvia Tonghini
  • Industrial Biofabrication of OOCs – Towards the Automated Bioproduction of Organ-on-a-Chip Systems using Sensor-Integrated 3D-Bioprinting Technology – Andreas Blaeser
  • Engineering Vascularized Cardiac Tissues Using Bayesian Optimization – Karen Shen
  • VascuNet: Automated Patient-Specific Cardiac Vascular Mapping from CT Angiography for 3D Bioprinting – Mrinal Yalageri
  • AI-Driven Multimaterial Digital Light Processing for Multiscaled and multimaterial Vascular Tissue Constructs – Daniel Nieto
Keynote: Gregor Weisgrab
  • Machine learning-enabled inverse design of spherical porous scaffolds for predictive biofabrication – Pasquale Posabella
  • From intraoperative scan to printable geometry: a fully automated pipeline for patient-specific in situ bioprinting – Carmelo De Maria
  • A Metaverse-Controlled Holographic Optical Tweezers Bioprinting platform for Immersive Micro–Scale Cell Manipulation – Daniel Nieto
  • An intelligent bioprinting platform with volumetric, fluorescence-based process monitoring for closed-loop control – Vasileios Sergis
  • AI-enhanced real-time control for precision robotic bioprinting – Pierpaolo Fucile
  • Biofabrication of a Porous 3D Alveolar Model for Studying Microplastic–Lung Interactions – Silvia Farè
  • Wood Cross-Sections as Scaffold for Engineered Living Bioreactors – Robert Kindler
  • Bioprinting of Photosynthetic Hydrogel Constructs Using Chaotic Kenics-Based Extrusion – Daniela Gacía-Tijerina
  • Bioprinting microbial harmony: Engineering spatially organized probiotic ecosystems via chaotic bioprinting – Francisco J Flores
  • Production of bacterial cellulose using agro-industrial waste as a substrate and its potential use for the production of dressings – Shelsy Lanzas-López
  • Closing the Reproducibility Gap in Extrusion Bioprinting: A Process-Regulated Multimaterial Platform with Inline Rheological Characterization and Gradient Printing -Ruben Gerrit Gerrit Scheuring
Chair:
Prof. Riccardo Levato (University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Prof. David Fernandez Rivas (University of Twente, Netherlands)

Keynote: David Fernandez Rivas, Khoon Lim
  • Sustainable and Multifunctional Biofabrication of Electrospun Nanofibrous Constructs for Wound Healing and Controlled Drug Delivery – Ewa Kijeńska-Gawrońska
  • Plant-Mediated Green Synthesis of Cobalt Ferrite Nanostructures for Anticancer Applications – Tehreen Sherwani
  • Hybrid Biomimetic Nanoparticles for Synergistic Chemo-Immuno-Gene Therapy Evaluation Across 2D and Advanced 3D-Bioprinter Pancreatic Cancer Models – Muhammad Saif ur rehman babar
  • HydroLIG: selective drug delivery via hydrogel/LIG smart actuators – Raquel Sanchez Diaz
  • Fibrosis-mitigating materials and islet encapsulation devices for type 1 diabetes – Wanjun Liu
Keynote: Qi Gu, Andrew Daly
  • Biofabrication of Advanced High-through Put Screening for Cancer Therapies using Organoids and Chaotic Bioprinting – Paola Cabrera
  • Modeling Age-Associated Neural Dysfunction Using In Vitro Three-Dimensional Neural Tissues – Varsha Pai V
  • Alginate/gelatin/silk fibroin-containing patches protect against myocardial infarction-mediated reduction in cardiac function in a murine model – Carmine Gentile
  • High-speed high-resolution spheroid bioprinting – Mariana Acedo Mestre

Keynote: Liliang Ouyang
  • Developing a 3D extrusion bioprinted model with dynamic stiffness gradients to probe hematopoietic stem cell behavior – DeShea L. Chasko
  • Toward Scalable Expansion of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Using Chaotic 3D-Bioprinted High–Surface-Area Culture Systems – Mauricio Zavala-Campos
  • Comprehensive evaluation of IL-17 effects on proliferation, osteogenic differentiation and the secretome of Wharton’s Jelly-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells – Bárbara Súarez Suárez Hernández
Keynote: Mian Wang
  • Direct cell writing for rapid formation of cell-dense constructs – Megan Farrow
  • Assembly and Characterization of a Modular Liver-on-a-Chip System using small-diameter and hepatocyte-laden electrosprayed microcapsules – Rafael Ramos
  • A 3D model to study Alzheimer´s disease metabolic risk factors -Raúl Loera-Valencia
  • Microenvironmental regulation for cell-dense neurovascular biofabrication – Wanlu Li
  • Geometrically Tunable Scaffold-Free Cell-Dense Muscle Bioconstructs via Modular Biofabrication for Functional Tissue Engineering – Bugra Ayan