Ongoing research works involve the close collaboration with national and foreign colleagues and institutions, namely:

International

• David J. Mooney. Laboratory for Cell and Tissue Engineering, Harvard Univ. and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering (USA).
• Luigi Ambrosio. Istituto per i Materiali Compositi e Biomedici, Univ. Naples Federico II (Italy)
• Paulo J. Bártolo. Manchester Biomanufacturing Centre, Univ. Manchester (UK).
• Lorenzo Moroni. MERLIN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, Maastricht Univ. (The Netherlands).
• Peter Ertl, Applied Synthetic Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology (Austria)
• Manfred Radmacher, Biophysics, Univ. Bremen (Germany)
• Diego Mantovani, Lab. Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Laval (Canada)
• Häkan Engqvist. Angstrom Lab., Uppsala Univ. (Sweden)
• Claudia Fischbach-Teschl. Dept. Biomedical Engineering, Cornell Univ. (USA).
• Jian Ji. Biomedical Macromolecules, Zhejiang Univ. (China)
• Paola Petrini and Maria Cristina Tanzi. BioMatLab, Politecnico Di Milano (Italy).
• Eduardo A. Silva. Dept. Biomedical Engineering, Univ. California, Davis (USA).

National

• Ana Paula Pêgo, Bruno Sarmento, Carla Oliveira, Cristina C. Barrias, Fátima Carneiro, Fátima Gartner, Fernando J. Monteiro, Graça Porto, Inês C. Gonçalves, Júlio Borlido Santos, M. Cristina L. Martins, Maria José Oliveira, Mário A. Barbosa, Perpétua Pinto-do-Ó, Raquel Seruca, Raquel Soares, Susana R. Sousa and Paula Tamagnini. i3S (UP).
• João Pedro Conde. Thin Film MEMS and BioMEMS Group, INESC-MN (Microsystems and Nanotechnologies), Univ. Lisbon.
• Juliana R. Dias. Rapid and Sustainable Product Development (CDRsp), Polytechnic Inst. Leiria (IPL)
• Ana L. Oliveira and Manuela Pintado. Faculty of Biotechnology, Catholic Univ. Portugal (UCP).
• Joaquim Miguel Oliveira, Rui L. Reis and Manuela E. Gomes. 3B’s Research Group, Univ. Minho.

With companies

• Stemmatters (Portugal)
• Bionz (Portugal)