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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Volumetric bioprinting can now trigger light-responsive proteins and optogenetic circuits deep inside centimeter-scale hydrogels - remote control of biology, not just structure. Read more: doi.org/10.1002/adma.74563

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I am deeply humbled and honored for receiving support from the @erc.europa.eu ERC Consolidator Grant, to further our research on #bioprinting. Let’s turn on the spotlight on stem cells, pancreatic islets and their specialized blood vessels! #biofabrication #ERCCoG @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 09/12/2025

The results of the ERC Consolidator Grant call have been announced! 📣 349 researchers have been selected for funding. Congratulations to all! #ERCCogG! 👉 buff.ly/uu62uFV #FrontierResearch #EUfunded #HorizonEurope @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Now live on Nature Materials @natureportfolio.nature.com : www.nature.com/articles/s41... News & Views highlighting our recent work on GRACE, for performing generative, adaptive and context-aware volumetric printing. Original article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

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Adaptive 3D printing - Nature Materials

Nature Materials - Adaptive 3D printing

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Working on #bioprinting and thinking about sending an abstract to TERMIS EU 2026? ISBF is teaming up with TERMIS with a dedicated session opened by Yu Shrike Zhang and Catherine LeVisage. Abstract submission deadline is on Nov 13th: eu2026.termis.org/programme/ab... #TermisEU2026

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Our lab is at the 2025 International Conference on Biofabrication in Warsaw, Poland! Check out the talks from Paulina, Nuria, and myself, and come meet us to know more about our recent progresses in #bioprinting #3dprinting #biofabrication @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #ISBF2025Warsaw

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

The 2025 European Society for Biomaterials meeting is starting! If you are in Turin, meet Sammy and Camille and check their work on context-aware #bioprinting ( www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.nature.com ) and multifunctional light-responsive gels #3dprinting #biofabrication

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Time to 3D (bio)print with GRACE! @natureportfolio.nature.com Excited to share a new #3dprinting approach, to automatically create designs and prints that conform to living cells, particles or any object embedded within a printable resin for light based printing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Adaptive and context-aware volumetric printing - Nature

A new approach combining 3D imaging, computer vision and parametric modelling, named GRACE, is introduced, enabling adaptive and context-aware 3D printing of structures around features ranging from ce...

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

We are hiring! Looking for both a Postdoc and a PhD candidate to make waves in #stemcell biology and #bioprinting, to build an engineered pancreas for #diabetes research and therapy Check out the two vacancies and apply before August 1st: www.levatolab.eu/post/two-vac...

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Two vacancies alert! Postdoc and PhD candidates wanted!

TWO positions available in our lab: We are looking for a Postdoc and a PhD candidate to join our team, and make waves in stem cell research and bioprinting to tackle diabetes!We have a 3-years Postdoc...

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

If you are at the congress of the International Pancreas and Islet Transplantation Association or at the meeting of the European Orthopaedics Research Society, take some time to meet with our labmates that will present how #bioprinting helps translational research @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Volumetric #bioprinting and liver organoids becomes part of High School biology courses in the Netherlands! #biofabrication #scicomm #societalimpact The work that lead to this result was funded by the @erc.europa.eu (VOLUME-BIO, 949806) Biologie voor jou (VWO 6) www.malmberg.nl/voortgezet-o...

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Check out our new paper on printing breast models with mammary ducts and vascular channels via tomographic #volumetric #bioprinting. Includes protocols for perfusion culture iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... Open access : zenodo.org/records/1539... @erc.europa.eu @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Join us in Utrecht for the 12th edition of the #3Dprinting and #Biofabrication summer school! Learn more about #bioprinting meeting experts in the field and with hands-on 3D printing sessions. Info and registrations: utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/life... @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Thermoshrinkable hydrogels produce channels with sub-100um diameter, even when first printed with a larger size. The shape change can occur in presence of cells seeded into the channels. Check the paper for more info: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

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Tunable Thermoshrinkable Hydrogels for 4D Fabrication of Cell‐Seeded Channels

A thermoresponsive polymer with methacrylate groups for photo-cross-linking, based on polyethylene glycol, N-isopropylacrylamide, and 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate is synthetized to yield hydrogels that sh....

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

New trends in #bioprinting and #synbio can create exciting opportunities for #diabetes research and therapy! Check out our new review @cp-trendsbiotech.bsky.social 🔗 Open Access article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @umcutrecht.bsky.social

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

We are hiring! Do you have experience in molecular biology and gene editing tools? We are looking for a PhD candidate with a strong interest and training in gene therapy, to work on a new model of neonatal diabetes. Applications are accepted until March 14th www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

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PhD Candidate in Bioprinting of a Gene Therapy Model for Neonatal Diabetes

Are you interested developing and converging the latest stem cell, organoids, and biofabrication technologies? Join the ON-SCREEN research team!

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biofabrication-dd.bsky.social @biofabrication-dd.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Ready for #biofabrication2025? Discover the latest in #bioprinting & #bioengineering - and welcome the #ELM community to the world of #biofabrication! Join @riclevato.bsky.social and us for a session on Biofabrication of Engineered Living Materials! Let's shape the future of living materials! 😊

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Join Biofabrication 2025 to learn about novel applications of #bioprinting technologies! This year we welcome the #ELM community with a dedicated symposium, to connect on new techs to produce Engineered Living Materials. Check it out and submit your abstract: biofabrication2025.org/abstract-sub...

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

2025 International Day of Women and Girls in Science: it is a great occasion to celebrate the work lead by female colleagues and teammates with whom I had the pleasure to collaborate in the past year. Here is to many more exciting scientific endeavours @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Last week it was great to visit the SF Bay area to meet with colleagues at @spie.org #photonicswest, Stanford University @heilshornlab.bsky.social Mark Skylar-Scott, and @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social ! Exciting to catch-up on progresses on full scale organ engineering and volumetric #3Dprinting

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Hubrecht Institute @hubrechtinstitute.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Catherine Robin has received a philanthropic donation facilitated by the Foundation Friends of the Hubrecht Institute. Robin’s group will develop bioprinted aortas to produce transplantable blood stem cells to make future stem cell transplants more accessible. www.hubrecht.eu/catherine-ro...

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Catherine Robin receives donation to develop personalized blood stem cells

Catherine Robin will use a philantropic donation to produce transplantable blood stem cells to make stem cell transplants more accessible.

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Looking forward to @spie.org #PhotonicsWest2025 next week! I will share progresses from our lab on light-based volumetric #bioprinting! Join the SPIE Conference 13381 to know more! If you are in San Francisco, feel free to reach out, and set some time to chat! @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

PhD vacancy alert ! Are you experienced with light-based, multiphoton printing technologies? Join us in Utrecht, to help us shape the future of #biofabrication #bioprinting and engineered living materials #ELM. Apply before Dec 15th: www.uu.nl/en/organisat... @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

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PhD Position in Multiphoton Printing for Biofabrication

Are you interested developing and converging the latest biofabrication technologies? Join the research team!

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Last week our lab had a blast at the International Conference on Biofabrication #ISBF2024Fukuoka ! Kudos to PhD candidates Núria Rodríguez, Marième Gueye, and Gabriel Groessbacher who presented their work. Thanks Koichi Nakayama for organizing this fantastic event, with >450 participants!

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

are you also at #ISBF2024Fukuoka ? Come meet our lab and check out some of our recent research on novel #bioprinting and biofabrication technologies !

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 17/07/2024

Day 3 of the Utrecht Summer School on #3dprinting and #biofabrication is on: Bioprinting in Space, High Definition printing, Grayscale 4D Multiphoton Printing, and Biossembly Thanks Joao Mano, Michael Gelinsky, Aleks Ovsianikov and @coledeforest.bsky.social DeForest for the inspiring lectures

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

Gearing up for the 11th Utrecht Summer School on #3DPrinting and Biofabrication, which will start in two weeks. We are looking forward to hosting 32 attendees from 26 countries around the globe for this fun #bioprinting focused week! @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 26/06/2024

Last week the ENLIGHT EU consortium met in Gothenburg at the AstraZeneca R&D HQ. Exciting discussions on the next steps, stay tuned for upcoming scientific news on #bioprinting #synbio and stem cell therapies for type 1 #diabetes

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 22/06/2024

Less than 3 days for #TERMIS2024 in Seattle! Oksana Dudaryeva and Davide Ribezzi will represent our lab, take the chance to connect with them them to know more about their research #bioprinting #biofabrication Check out their presentations and posters on June 26th!

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 25/05/2024

Are you at the World Biomaterials Congress 2024 in Daegu, Korea? Don't miss Paulina Bernal and Marc Falandt who will share their research on volumetric #bioprinting and supramolecular hydrogels. Reach out to them if you want to learn more #biofabrication @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

📢PhD position alert! Please share and repost! We are looking for a talented PhD candidate with background in engineering, biofabrication and bioprinting to join our group! Info and applications: www.careersatumcutrecht.com/vacancies/we...

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PRISM-LT @prism-livingtissues.eu · 06/05/2024

Take this chance to meet experts in #bioprinting at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social summer school! Our #EUfunded project partner João F. Mano from the CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials will be there to talk about the bio assembly of cells & materials for #Biofabrication

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

Time to unveil the 2024 line-up for the #3Dprinting and #Biofabrication @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social summer school! Join us in July for a week of hands-on lab sessions, meeting worldwide experts and new friends from the field Registration closes July 1st: utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/life...

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

Exciting to kick off this new collaborative project with Catherine Robin @hubrechtinstitute.bsky.social we will explore how hematopoietic stem cells are born and aim to replicate their environment in vitro using our #bioprinting techs

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

Last Friday Marc Falandt joined the @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social chapter of UniStemDay, an annual European initiative to meet high school students interested in stem cell research #STEMeducation #Unistemday2024 Fantastic opportunity to discuss #bioprinting and regenerative medicine applications

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

Celebrating the #InternationalWomensDay I am happy to highlight the work from the past year lead and carried out by the women in science with whom I have the plaeasure to collaborate @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #bioprinting #biofabrication

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Thanks @biofabwue.bsky.social Tomasz Jungst for visiting us at the Regenerative Medicine Center Utrecht this week @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social ! Always nice to catch up, and looking forward to more and more exciting science in collaboration with your team!

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

🎓Hora est! Huge congrats to Dr. Paulina Nunez Bernal for her outstanding thesis defense! Her PhD thesis "Crafting Tissue Complexity" introduced new #3Dprinting techs (#volumetric #bioprinting, cell #electrowriting) and liver and heart in vitro models #proudsupervisor @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

What is the road ahead for #bioprinting ? Great to see the technology in this WHO report. "The aim of this exploration of plausible 10-year scenarios of 3D bioprinting was to identify present actions to ensure the future availability of safe, effective applications" iris.who.int/handle/10665...

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