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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 20d

from @natureportfolio.nature.com Research Briefings: Bespoke 3D printing adapted to features mapped using computer vision

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Bespoke 3D printing adapted to features mapped using computer vision

The modelling process can adapt the printing to incorporate various features of inclusions, such as their size or colour.

www.nature.com

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · 24d

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 · 28d

Thanks nu.nl for featuring our recent research results on GRACE #bioprinting @natureportfolio.nature.com . Check out the "good news" section (a fitting home and anme!) of Nu . nl of today:

🇳🇱 www.nu.nl/goed-nieuws/...

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Nieuwe stap in 3D-printen: ook menselijk weefsel kan worden 'geprint'

Onderzoekers van de Universiteit Utrecht zijn een stap dichter bij het 3D-bioprinten van organen. De nieuwe techniek genaamd GRACE kan door middel van kunstmatige intelligentie zelf meedenken en sugge...

www.nu.nl

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · Sep 9

Nature @nature.com · Sep 9

Nature research paper: Adaptive and context-aware volumetric printing

go.nature.com/46oI8Hm

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 cellular to macroscopic scales with minimal user intervention.

go.nature.com

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · Sep 7

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 · Sep 4

#bioprinting #biofabrication

Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · Sep 4

check out also the summary posted by @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social www.uu.nl/en/news/ai-t...

AI turns printer into a partner in tissue engineering

The team of Riccardo Levato (UMC Utrecht and University Utrecht) has developed a new 3D bioprinter that doesn’t just print, it also sees and even co-designs.

www.uu.nl

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · Sep 3

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...

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...

www.nature.com

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · Jul 3

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...

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...

www.levatolab.eu

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · Jun 16

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 · Jun 1

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 · May 25

We are hiring a PhD student! Do you have expertise in physics, photonics, or light-based 3D printing? Check our vacancy out, and apply before June 13th

www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #3dprinting #bioprinting #biofabrication

PhD Candidate: Photonics Technologies for Biofabrication

Are you interested developing and converging the latest light-based biofabrication technologies? Join our research team!

www.uu.nl

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · May 13

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 · May 11

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 · Apr 8

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

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....

advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · Apr 4

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 · Mar 18

and for a jump in the (recent) past,here is a link to the first paper on volumetric #bioprinting, back from 2019 from our lab; onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... a lot has already happened since then and the field is growing very rapidly both in the bio- and non-bio arena!

Volumetric Bioprinting of Complex Living‐Tissue Constructs within Seconds

Spatially coordinated patterns of visible light tomographic projections onto cell-laden photoresponsive hydrogels enable the rapid bioprinting of 3D tissue constructs with clinically relevant size an...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · Mar 18

New review on advances in volumetric #3Dprinting technologies, now online at Nature Reviews Materials! @natureportfolio.nature.com

Free link (read only): rdcu.be/ed4pn

@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social EPFL @harvard.edu @uwmadisonradmed.bsky.social @thwildau.bsky.social

The road ahead in materials and technologies for volumetric 3D printing

Nature Reviews Materials - Volumetric 3D printing is an emerging set of technologies enabling layerless, fast fabrication of complex, multicomponent objects. This Review explores challenges in...

rdcu.be

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · Mar 13

one more day to apply!

Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · Feb 28

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...

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!

www.uu.nl

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · Feb 28

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...

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!

www.uu.nl

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Riccardo Levato @riclevato.bsky.social · Feb 27

🔥 Our recent work on new solutions for Multi-Material Volumetric Bioprinting is now published online in Advanced Materials. Check it out to learn more about gels for VBP and for a plug-and-play way to make suspension baths for extrusion #3dprinting
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Multi‐material Volumetric Bioprinting and Plug‐and‐play Suspension Bath Biofabrication via Bioresin Molecular Weight Tuning and via Multiwavelength Alignment Optics

Multimaterial volumetric and embedded extrusion bioprinting of complex cell-laden architectures is enabled by unravelling the interplay between molecular weight and degree of functionalization in gel...

advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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biofabrication-dd.bsky.social @biofabrication-dd.bsky.social · Feb 21

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 · Feb 18

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 · Feb 11

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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