Dr. Pedro Costa, é fundador, CEO e CTO da empresa BIOFABRICS, especializada em técnicas de biofabricação 3D com aplicações em engenharia de tecidos e medicina regenerativa. Irá apresentar no dia 10 de Maio de 2018 às 18h00 (Sala 4.4) uma palestra intitulada "Biofabrication, Microfluidics, Organs‐on‐Chips and Bioreactors".
Estão todos convidados.
Biosketch:
Dr. Pedro Costa is a researcher, inventor, educator and entrepreneur. He is the founder, CEO and CTO of the company BIOFABICS, which is specialized in the creation of 3D biotissue analogues. Before that, he was the coordinator of the world’s first MSc Programme in Biofabrication at Utrecht University, manager of the Utrecht Biofabrication Facility and postdoctoral researcher at the University Medical Center Utrecht (Netherlands). Dr. Costa can be described as a biologist by training and engineer/maker by heart, given his undergraduate studies in applied biology followed by a PhD in biomedical engineering where he specialized in the application/combination of highly automated tools such as additive manufacturing (3D bioprinting) and bioreactor technologies in the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. He has previously worked in both academic and industrial environments in places such as Portugal (University of Minho), Belgium (Materialise NV), Australia (Queensland University of Technology) and Germany (Technical University of Munich). Dr. Costa has also received several awards for his work, among them the 2014 Translational Award (European Society for Biomaterials) and the 2016 Young Investigator Award (2nd place) (International Society for Biofabrication).
Some Key Publications:
- Costa P.F., Albers H.J., Linssen J.E.A., MIddelkamp H.H.T., van der Hout L., Passier R., van den Berg A., Malda J., van der Meer A.D., 2017, Mimicking Arterial Thrombosis in a 3D-Printed Microfluidic In Vitro Vascular Model Based on Computed Tomography Angiography Data, Lab on a Chip, doi: 10.1039/C7LC00202E
- Ferraz M., Henning H., Costa P.F., Malda J., Melchels F., Stout T., Vos P., Gadella B., 2017, Improved bovine embryo production in an oviduct-on-a-chip system: Prevention of polyspermic fertilization as well as parthenogenic activation, Lab on a Chip, doi: 10.1039/C6LC01566B
- Costa P.F., Hutmacher D.W., Theodoropoulos C., Gomes, M.E., Reis R.L., Vaquette C., 2015, Additively manufactured device for dynamic culture of large arrays of 3D tissue engineered constructs, Advanced Healthcare Materials, doi: 10.1002/adhm.201400591
- Costa P.F., Vaquette C., Baldwin J., Chhaya M., Gomes M.E., Reis R.L., Theodoropoulos C., Hutmacher D.W., 2014, Biofabrication of customized bone grafts by combination of additive manufacturing and bioreactor knowhow, Biofabrication, 6 035006 doi:10.1088/1758-5082/6/3/035006
