Field-Assisted Biofabrication

Field-Assisted Biofabrication (FAB) team, focuses on advancing the engineering of living systems using extrinsic fields-based biofabrication technologies, such as hydrodynamic waves, magnetic fields, light, and stimuli-responsive materials for modelling and regeneration. 

Our team leverages FAB approaches to spatially pattern and assemble cells, aggregates, organoids, and extracellular matrices in a controlled and programmed manner, with the goal of creating advanced human in vitro models, in alignment with the 3Rs philosophy. 

One of the key innovations developed by our team is Sound Induced Morphogenesis (SIM), a novel technology that enables contactless bioassembly, under fast and mild culture conditions, by hydrodynamic waves, opening new frontiers for functional and morphologically relevant tissue generation. In 2020, SIM technology was licensed to mimiX Biotherapeutics, a successful Swiss startup that is now advancing in clinical translation. SIM was selected as part of the “Technology Outlook 2023” by the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences, SATW. Implants from a loudspeaker: Technology Outlook