RESEARCH
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.
COMPUTATIONAL MODELING
We use both continuous and discrete modeling frameworks to study cell and tissue mechanobiology.
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.
FUNDED PROJECTS
Synthetic Matrix Biology: Designer matrices to program healthy and diseased myocardial morphogenesis
ERC Starting grant
2020-2025
All-Optical Engineering of Human Tissue Models for Ultra High-Throughput Drug Screening
MUR FARE
2022-2027
highLight: A competence center for bio/nano-sustainability
Regione Lombardia
2021-2023
Engineered in-vitro models of cardiometabolic diseases to screen RNA-based therapeutics
EU/MUR PNRR
2022-2025
RESET. REsolving infections by modulating SEnescenT macrophages (in collaboration with the Infection Dynamics Lab of Loris Rizzello at UNIMI)
2022PL44LM
2022-2027