Riccardo Levato
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Riccardo Levato
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Biofabrication, 3D printing, biomaterials, bioengineering, regenerative medicine. Associate Professor at Utrecht University and UMC Utrecht.
Group website: www.levatolab.eu
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
October 3, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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
September 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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
September 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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
June 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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...
June 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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
May 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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
May 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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
April 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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...
February 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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
February 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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
February 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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
January 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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!
November 22, 2024 at 8:03 AM
are you also at #ISBF2024Fukuoka ? Come meet our lab and check out some of our recent research on novel
#bioprinting and biofabrication technologies !
November 11, 2024 at 2:24 AM
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
July 17, 2024 at 11:47 AM
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
July 2, 2024 at 8:28 AM
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
June 26, 2024 at 9:34 AM
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!
June 22, 2024 at 8:55 AM
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
May 25, 2024 at 10:44 AM
📢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...
May 8, 2024 at 12:34 PM
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...
April 24, 2024 at 8:17 PM
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
March 26, 2024 at 9:03 AM
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
March 8, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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!
March 6, 2024 at 1:30 PM
🎓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
February 7, 2024 at 3:33 PM