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ESB 2021: Call for last minute posters

Dear colleagues and friends, We received a respectable number of over 700 abstract submissions. Many thanks to all the submitters!! The reviewing process has already started, we wish all authors good luck and explicitly thank the more than 200 reviewers for their necessary and helpful support. For last minute abstracts, the abstract submission has been reopened today. This call for last-minute abstracts is for poster presentations only. Deadline for these late poster abstracts (poster presentation only) is May 16, 2021, 23:59:00 CET. Therefore, please upload your late poster abstracts before that, using the online submission system available at http://www.esb2021.org. On the conference website you can always find updated information on all related topics, such as main conference topics, plenary and keynote speakers, venue and exhibition. In case of further questions, ideas or suggestions about the conference, its program or organisation please contact the conference secretary: ESB 2021 Conference Secretary c/o K.I.T. Group GmbH Dresden Anja Binning Phone: +49 (0)351 65573-135 Email: info@esb2021.org Web: www.esb2021.org On behalf of the whole Organising Committee, we thank you very much in advance for your contribution and support. We are looking forward to welcoming you at the 31st ESB Conference! Best regards |
Ana Paula Pêgo (Chair), M. Cristina L. Martins (Co-Chair), and Pedro L. Granja (Co-Chair) |
A fast alternative to soft-lithography for the fabrication of organ-on-a-chip elastomeric-based devices and microactuators

Ferreira D, Rothbauer M, Conde JP, Ertl P, Oliveira C, Granja PL. A fast alternative to soft-lithography for the fabrication of organ-on-a-chip elastomeric-based devices and microactuators. Adv Sci 2021;2003273.
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Bioprinting bioinks able to engineer 3D cellular microenvironments with tunable cues

Bioprinting a multifunctional bioink to engineer clickable 3D cellular niches with tunable matrix microenvironmental cues. Rúben F. Pereira, Bianca N. Lourenço, Paulo J. Bártolo and Pedro L. Granja. Advanced Healthcare Materials 2020:2001176.
Continue readingESB 2021 to be held in Porto, Portugal, on September 5-9, 2021

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Dear colleagues, dear friends!
It is our pleasure to already invite you to the 31th Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB 2021) which will take place in Porto, Portugal, from September 5 to 9, 2021.
Continue readingPulido Valente Ciência 2018 prize awarded to researcher from the Biofabrication Group at i3S
Pulido Valente Ciência 2018 prize was awarded to Rúben Pereira, for his work in the area of skin 3D printing published in 2018 in Materials Horizons. This year was dedicated to biomedical sciences and this work was considered one of the best articles by young Portuguese researchers. The other awardee was Joana Sacramento, from Univ. Nova in Lisbon. Further details are provided in newspaper Público (only in Portuguese).
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Hybrid systems in tissue engineering
Leveling up hydrogels: Hybrid systems in tissue engineering. Sara C. Neves, Lorenzo Moroni, Cristina C. Barrias and Pedro L. Granja. Trends in Biotechnology 2020;3:292–315.
Nanoparticle-loaded hydrogel for combined chemotherapy and cancer vaccination
Bauleth‐Ramos T, Shih T‐Y, Shahbazi M‐A, Najibi AJ, Ma AS, Liu, D, Granja P, Santos HA, Sarmento B, Mooney DJ. Adv Funct Mater 2019;29:1903686.
Functionalized hydrogel bioinks for bioprinting
Pereira RF, Sousa A, Barrias CC, Bártolo PJ, Granja PL. Mater Horiz 2018;5:1100-11.