Researchers Riccardo Levato

Riccardo Levato

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Dr. Riccardo Levato is Associate Professor of Biofabrication and Regenerative Medicine at the Department of Orthopedics, University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU) and at the Regenerative Medicine Center Utrecht. His main research focus are on the development of Biofabrication strategies to create bioprinted and lab-made tissue models, particularly for osteochondral regeneration. At UMCU, working at the frontier between engineering, biology and biomedical sciences, he focuses especially on novel treatments for cartilage and osteochondral defects and their application in translational regenerative medicine. For his work on biofabrication, he was conferred the 2015 Julia Polak award by the European Society for Biomaterials and the 2016 Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine Young Investigator Award, the 2021 Jean Leray award from the European Society for Biomaterials, and the 2022 Robert Brown award from TERMIS-EU. In 2020, he also received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council, to develop...

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Living Matter Engineering and Biofabrication

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Engineering and materials science help us to understand how stem cells behave. We translate this knowledge to build lab-made 3D tissues for regenerative medicine and personalized disease models.

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Multi-material integration in light-based Volumetric Bioprinting Sammy Florczak, Davide Ribezzi, Marc Falandt, Paulina Bernal, Gabriel Groessbacher, Tina Vermonden, Jos Malda, Riccardo Levato
2024

Novel hepatocyte-like liver organoids recapitulate crucial mature hepatic functions Ibrahim Ardisasmita, Indi Joore, Natacha Levy, A. Myszczyszyn, Ary Marsee, Theo Sinnige, J. Ruiter, Sacha Ferdinandusse, Oksana Dudaryeva, E. Gruber, V. Daive, Riccardo Levato, Bart Spee, Monique Ma Verstegen, L.J.W. van der Laan, E.E.S. Nieuwenhuis , Imre Schene, Sabine Fuchs
2024

Thermal Shrinking of Biopolymeric Hydrogels for High Resolution 3D Printing of Kidney Tubules Martina Viola, Marta G. Valverde, Paulina Nuñez Bernal, Jacobus P. van Trijp, Jaimie Hak, Greta Di Marco, Myriam Neumann, Carl C.L. Schuurmans, Cornelus F. van Nostrum, Rosalinde Masereeuw, Silvia M. Mihăilă, Jos Malda, Riccardo Levato, Tina Vermonden
Advanced Functional Materials, 2024, vol. 34

Human breast tissue engineering in health and disease Maj Britt Buchholz, Demi I. Scheerman, Riccardo Levato, Ellen J. Wehrens, Anne C. Rios
Embo Molecular Medicine, 2024, vol. 16, p.2299 - 2321

3D Bioprinting of Human Skin and Squamous Cell Tumors (SCCs) as Advanced Models for Precision Medicine (BIOSQIN) Stefano Lorenzetti, Milena Mikhail, Laura Di Benedetto, Elena Dellambra, Cristina M. Failla, Sara Maria Giannitelli, Riccardo Levato, Alessia Longoni, Valeria Bartolocci, Daniela Lulli, Sofia Raniolo, Isabella De Angelis
Altex, 2024, vol. 41, p.485-486

Correction to Riccardo Levato, Oksana Dudaryeva, Carlos Ezio Garciamendez-Mijares, Bruce E. Kirkpatrick, Riccardo Rizzo, Jacob Schimelman, Kristi S. Anseth, Shaochen Chen, Marcy Zenobi-Wong, Yu Shrike Zhang
Nature Reviews Methods Primers, 2024, vol. 4

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