RESEARCH

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  • GENETIC ENGINEERING OF HUMAN CELLS

    We use genetic engineering and genome editing techniques to introduce fluorescent structural and functional sensors in human cell lines and human induced pluripotent stem cells.

    Cells video

    COMPUTATIONAL MODELING

    We use both continuous and discrete modeling frameworks to study cell and tissue mechanobiology.

    SEM video

    ENGINEERING OF CELL CULTURE PLATFORMS

    We use micro/nano-fabrication and biological self-assembly to create high-throughput, high-content biomimetic platforms to study human development, health, and disease in-vitro.

    Engineered cells video

    FUNDED PROJECTS

    1. Synthetic Matrix Biology: Designer matrices to program healthy and diseased myocardial morphogenesis
      ERC Starting grant
      2020-2025
      ERC

    2. All-Optical Engineering of Human Tissue Models for Ultra High-Throughput Drug Screening
      MUR FARE
      2022-2027
      mUR

    3. highLight: A competence center for bio/nano-sustainability
      Regione Lombardia
      2021-2023
      RL

    4. Engineered in-vitro models of cardiometabolic diseases to screen RNA-based therapeutics
      EU/MUR PNRR
      2022-2025
      PNRR

    5. RESET. REsolving infections by modulating SEnescenT macrophages (in collaboration with the Infection Dynamics Lab of Loris Rizzello at UNIMI)
      2022PL44LM
      2022-2027
      mUR