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📣 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘂𝗽𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗯-𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 ‘𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝟯𝗗 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀, 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁’ 𝗯𝘆 𝗜𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗮 𝗣𝗮𝘂𝗻 (𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗟𝗣𝗥/𝗖𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗟) 📅 2 April 2025, 4:00pm CEST 📌 Register now: https://lnkd.in/dvFnxBqh 🎬 Watch all previous Laserlab-Europe Talks on our YouTube channel: https://lnkd.in/eHTvBdiw The biomedical engineering sector is one of the most rapidly growing industrial areas, bringing together engineering, medicine and biology, to develop novel technologies for medical treatment. Modern biomedical engineering advanced the concept of “reverse engineering”, which means building micro- and nano-structures with functional biomimicry by extracting design parameters from biological systems, such as from cell types and shapes, and from the complex 3D architectures of extracellular matrix microenvironments. Cells seeded on these 3D micro/nano-structures attach, interconnect, proliferate, and finally form masses of cells organized in 3D architectures closely resembling the natural tissue. These micro/nano-structures are currently used not only for fundamental mechanistic studies on the development, regeneration, and repair of damaged human tissues, but also for diagnostics, disease modeling, drug delivery, and personalized medicine. In this talk, I will present our recent results on the fusion between reverse engineering and laser processing, within the scope of current challenges in medical treatments. Specifically, I will show how we “boosted” a conventional 3D printing technique, known as Laser Direct Writing via Two-Photon Polymerization (LDW via TPP), for biomedical engineering. LDW via TPP has been extensively used for fabricating structures with complex 3D architectures, for biomedical use. It is known that LDW via TPP offers low operational costs, rapid processing time, high spatial resolution, and full reproducibility of the obtained structures, mandatory for systematic in vitro studies. In our work, we targeted the development of innovative, synergistic combinations of 3D micro/nano-structures fabricated by LDW via TPP and specific structure characteristics such as composition, morphology, and surface chemistry. This approach allowed us to obtain better control over attachment, growth, and, in some cases, differentiation of various cell types, e.g. osteoblasts, fibroblasts, and glial cells. We further improved the effectiveness of the laser-printed structures by volumetric integration of electrically and magnetically responsive biomaterials into the “backbone” of the structures. [...] This Laserlab-Europe Talk is coorganised by Laserlab-Europe, Lasers4EU and 360Carla (CARLA Hub).