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Riccardo Levato

@riclevato.bsky.social

Biofabrication, 3D printing, biomaterials, bioengineering, regenerative medicine. Associate Professor at Utrecht University and UMC Utrecht. Group website: www.levatolab.eu

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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

03.10.2025 11:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

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

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

18.09.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

14.09.2025 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

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:

πŸ‡³πŸ‡± www.nu.nl/goed-nieuws/...

@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
#3dprinting

10.09.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
09.09.2025 10:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

07.09.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#bioprinting #biofabrication

04.09.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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.

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

04.09.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

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...

03.09.2025 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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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...

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...

03.07.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

16.06.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

01.06.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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PhD Candidate: Photonics Technologies for Biofabrication Are you interested developing and converging the latest light-based biofabrication technologies? Join our research team!

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

25.05.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

13.05.2025 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

11.05.2025 11:34 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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....

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

08.04.2025 08:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New trends in #bioprinting and #synbio can create exciting opportunities for #diabetes research and therapy! Check out our new review @cp-trendsbiotech.bsky.social

πŸ”— Open Access article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @umcutrecht.bsky.social

04.04.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

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!

18.03.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

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

18.03.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

one more day to apply!

13.03.2025 07:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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!

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...

28.02.2025 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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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...

πŸ”₯ 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/...

27.02.2025 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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! 😊

21.02.2025 09:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

18.02.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

11.02.2025 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

06.02.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

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...

05.02.2025 10:28 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

21.01.2025 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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64 million euros for groundbreaking fundamental research projects | NWO 21 research consortia have the chance to reach a breakthrough thanks to funding from the Open Competition Domain Science - XL. From fundamental research on the effects of certain materials on the meth...

Exciting news! At @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social , together with partners at @utwente.bsky.social and Leiden UMC we will investigate new bioprinting and biomaterials-based strategies for creating immunoprotected regenerative devices to treat diabetes.

www.nwo.nl/en/news/64-m...

17.12.2024 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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!

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

25.11.2024 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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