Prof Chua is the Associate Provost for Research and Cheng Tsang Man Chair Professor at SUTD. He joined SUTD as the Head of the Engineering Product Development pillar from 2019 to 2022. He was previously from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) where he was a Full Professor and previous Chair of the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He was also the Executive Director of the Singapore Centre for 3D Printing from 2014 to 2019. Professor Chua has been an active contributor to the additive manufacturing (AM) field for over 35 years. He began his journey into AM in 1990. His research area is in 3D Printing & Rapid Prototyping or Additive Manufacturing. Now, his ongoing research is concerned mainly with powder bed fusion processes such as selective laser sintering and selective laser melting, bioprinting, electronics printing, 4D printing and food printing. He is the foremost expert in Singapore in this area and was awarded the prestigious International Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Excellence (FAME) Award in 2018 and was honoured with the Award of Excellence (Education) by ASTM International Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence (AM CoE) in 2024 for his continuous and outstanding contributions to the field of additive manufacturing. Prof Chua is also the most published and most cited scientist in “Rapid Prototyping / Additive Manufacturing” (3D Printing) according to the Web of Science in 2022 and 2023. As of 2024, he has contributed more than 500 technical papers, generated more than 30,000 citations. He is currently also the Editor-in-Chief of Virtual & Physical Prototyping, as well as Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Bioprinting.

Professor and Chair of School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at NTU Singapore

Top 50 Asia Women Tech Leaders 2024

SG100 Women in Tech 2021

TCT Women in 3D Printing Innovator Award 2019

Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers 2022,2024 by Clarivate

Ranked #1 in 3D printing (prior 5 years) by Scholar GPS

Professor and Vice Dean at School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University
Director of Ministry of Education ERC for Rapid Prototyping & Manufacturing Technology
Winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars
Associate Editor of Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, International Journal of Bioprinting, Bio-Design and Manufacturing
Editorial Board Member of Virtual and Physical Prototyping, International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing

Professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University (WSU)
Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS), American Society for Materials (ASM International), American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology
Executive Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing

Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University
Member of the Young Scholars Committee of the International Society for Biomanufacturing (ISBF)
Associate Editor of Biomaterials Advances, and International Journal of Bioprinting
Editorial Board Member of Biofabrication

Maling Gou, PhD, is a Researcher and Doctoral Supervisor. He is a recipient of the National YXQN Fund and the Ministry of Education Youth CJXZ Program, a recognized Academic and Technical Leader of Sichuan Province, a “Tianfu****” Technology Elite, and the leader of a Young Science and Technology Innovation Research Team. He serves as an external expert for the Center for Medical Device Evaluation of the National Medical Products Administration, Deputy Chair of the 3D Printing Branch of the Chinese Society for Medical Biotechnology, Vice President of the Sichuan Additive Manufacturing Technology Association, and Executive Committee Member of the Lung Cancer Committee of the Sichuan Cancer Society. Additionally, he sits on the editorial boards of several international journals.

Dr. Gou received his PhD from Sichuan University in 2010 and has remained there for teaching and research. In 2012, he was a visiting scholar at the University of California, San Diego, and in 2017, he served as a senior advisor to the Chengdu Hi-Tech Zone Bioindustry Development Bureau. He has undertaken numerous national research projects, published over 100 SCI-indexed papers, and applied for more than 10 invention patents, with several successfully transferred to industry. His research achievements have been recognized with the First Prize for Natural Science from the Ministry of Education, the First Prize for Natural Science of Sichuan Province, and the Chengdu Natural Science Award. He has also received honors such as “Outstanding Teacher” and the “Young Science and Technology Talent Award” from Sichuan University, as well as the Sichuan Provincial Young Science and Technology Award.

His research focuses on the development of advanced medical 3D printing technologies and innovative drugs or medical devices. He is dedicated to creating novel 3D printing systems and materials and applying these technologies to the treatment of malignant tumors and tissue injuries, bridging basic research with clinical translation. Additionally, he works on designing targeted drug and gene delivery systems to develop new therapeutic strategies for cancer and other diseases, aiming to advance both fundamental understanding and practical applications in biomedical engineering.

Chief physician and Professor of Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital
Research on key technologies and transformation of bioprinting active tissues and organs: The world's first clinical implantation of bioprinting active bone has been completed.

Bowman Endowed Professor
Overall Achievement Award, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, CU Boulder (2025)
Elected Member, National Academy of Medicine (2024)
Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers, Clarivate Analytics (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
International Award, European Society for Biomaterials (2024)
International Fellow, The Canadian Academy of Engineering (2023)
Elected Fellow Biomaterials Science and Engineering, IUS-BSE (2020)
Chaffer Visiting Fellowship, University of Otago – New Zealand (2019)
Acta Biomaterialia Silver Medal Award (2019)
Elected Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) (2019)
Elected Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (NAI) (2019)
Clemson Award for Basic Research, Society for Biomaterials (2018)
George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, UPenn (2018)
Young Talent Award, Conference of Molecular Engineering of Polymers (2016)
American Heart Association Established Investigator Award (2014)
Elected Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) (2011)
NIH/NIBIB Edward C. Nagy New Investigator Award (2011)
Kalpana Chalwa Outstanding Recent Alumni Award, University of Colorado (2011)
National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2009)
Coulter Foundation Early Career Award (2008)
ACS Petroleum Research Fund Early Career Grant (2007)
Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering (2007)

Dr. Shweta Agarwala got her B.Tech in Electronics & Communication Engineering from M. J. P. Rohilkhand University, India. She pursued her M.Sc from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore with specialization in microelectronics. She obtained her Ph.D in 2012 from National University of Singapore (NUS) on 'nanostructured materials for dye-sensitized solar cells'. She joined Energy Research Institute, Singapore as post-doctoral researcher and worked on building library of lead-free and lead based perovskite materials. Later she joined Singapore Center for 3D Printing, Singapore to engage in printed electronics research.  Her research vision is to achieve sustainability in electronics through soft and biodegradable electronic materials. Her research group is working towards building biodegradable material library with novel electronic functionalities. They are using printing route to enable flexible and bio-electronic device with applications in healthcare, wearables, smart textiles and soft robotics. She is IEEE senior member and Chair of Women in Engineering (WiE) affinity group, Denmark section, IEEE. 

Richard and Loan Hill Chair, UIC Distinguished Professor
Fellow of NAI, TERM, IAMBE, CRS, AIMBE and BMES

G. Link Professor and Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
W. Boyce Professor and Chair of the Department of Urology at Wake Forest University, USA
Fellow of National Academy of Medicine
Fellow of National Academy of Inventors
Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering 
Editor-in-Chief of Bioprinting

Jung Chair of Materials Engineering and a Physics Professor at Tulane University
Tulane Cancer Program Member
A scientific advisor to Nanotherapeutics, the Chief Technology Officer for Nano Solutions and is President of Omni-Metrics
He is considered one of the pioneers in the field of pulsed laser deposition and was the lead inventor of MAPLE processing technique (matrix assisted pulsed laser evaporation).

Associate Professor of Sapienza University of Rome
His research interests include Microfluidic viscometry, a valid tool to assist 3D Bioprinting of Aqueous Two-Phases Emulsions

In 2010, he joined the European Institute of Membranes (UMR CNRS 5635) in Montpellier (France) as a CNRS Researcher.
His work focuses on the development of new synthesis methods such as Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), electrospinning, and 3D printing for the formation of nanomaterials (metals and ceramics).
Co-editor for the Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
Editor of Applied Surface Science Advances, International Journal of Bioprinting, Nanomaterials and Sensors.

Professor of laryngology at UCL and a consultant in ENT surgery at the Royal National Ear Nose and Throat and Eastman Dental Hospital
He is one of the leading academic Otolaryngologists in the world, one of the leading academic surgeons in Europe and an international figure in the field of translational regenerative medicine.
With Mr Guri Sandhu and Prof David Howard, he founded the British Laryngological Association in 2011.
He was elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2010, and was awarded NIHR Senior Investigator status in 2020.
He was patron of the National Association of Laryngectomee Clubs and Trustee of the Throat Cancer Foundation.

Professor at Department of Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine (CTERM), Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
His research focuses on design and surface modification of biomaterials, cell-scaffold interaction, cell toxicity and biocompatibility, in vitro and in vivo immune interaction, tissue engineered substitute (in vitro model and in vivo application).

Since August 2021, Paulo Bartolo is Professor at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University and Executive Director of the Singapore Centre for 3D Printing.

In February 2014 he joined the University of Manchester (UK) as Chair Professor on Advanced Manufacturing. At the University of Manchester, Paulo Bartolo was the Head of the Manufacturing Group, Leader of the Innovative Manufacturing Research Theme, Member of the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering Executive Committee and Member of the Departmental Committee for the Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF21) Engineering Unit of Assessment 12 (UOA 12). He was also member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) Committee (2014-2017) and member of the Promotion Committee (2014-2017). At the University of Manchester he was also the Industry 4.0 Academic Lead; member of the Advanced Manufacturing Strategic Oversight Group; member of the Management Board of the EPSRC & MRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Regenerative Medicine; theme leader of the “Industry 4.0” Societal Challenge area within the Digital Futures; and member of the Thomas Ashton Institute (Academic Lead for Industry 4.0 – implications for health and safety).

Paulo Bartolo was the founder and Director of the Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development (2007-2013) at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (Portugal), a Research Centre of Excellence in Mechanical Engineering of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. At the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria he was Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department (2001-2009); President of the Research Assessment Committee (2009-2013); President of the Scientific Council for Research, Development and Advanced Studies (2009-2013).

He is a Fellow of CIRP (The International Academy of Production Engineering) and served the Academy as Chairman of the CIRP Scientific Technical Committee on Electro-Physical and Chemical Processes (STC E) (2016-2019) and as Vice-Chairman of STC E (2013-2016) and Vice-Chairman of the CIRP Collaborative Working Group on Biomanufacturing (2010-2012). Paulo Bartolo is also Advisor of the Brazilian Institute of Biofabrication (INCT-BIOFABRIS) funded by the Brazilian Government.

Associate Professor at Department of Pharmacy, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti - Pescara
1999 – 2004, M.Sc. in Pharmacy, University of Catanzaro “Magna Græcia”
2008 – 2012, Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Science, University of Catanzaro “Magna Graecia”:
“Supramolecular vescicular aggregates: innovative drug delivery systems for anticancer therapy”,
mentor: Prof. Donatella Paolino (S.S.D. CHIM/09 – Applied Pharmaceutical Technology).
Main research fields: design, preparation, physicochemical characterization and in vitro and in
vivo evaluation of Supramolecular Nanotherapeutics for local and systemic delivery of bioactive
compounds.

Dr. Ming-Wei Chang is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering. Prior to this appointment, he served as an Associate Professor at Zhejiang University, where he was a member of the Academic Committee and the Overseas High-Level Talents Program of Zhejiang Province, China. Dr. Chang received his PhD from University College London and subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford. From 2003 to 2008, he held the position of R&D Manager and Principal Investigator at the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Taiwan.

His current research focuses on the engineering of novel micro- and nanostructures for biomedical applications and healthcare technologies. Dr. Chang has authored over 125 peer-reviewed scientific publications in leading journals. He is the inventor of several innovations, including flexible CMUTs, sonic paper, herbal-based chitosan materials, and various advanced biomaterials and biomedical devices. He holds 35 international patents, many of which have been licensed to industrial partners in Taiwan, China, and the UK. He is involved in peer review for major funding bodies and academic publishers.

Dr. Chang currently serves as Course Director within the School of Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) and serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including the International Journal of Bioprinting, Materials Science in Additive Manufacturing. He also frequently serves as a guest editor for special issues in various other academic journals.

Maria Chatzinikolaidou received her B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Essen, Germany and her doctoral degree in Biochemistry from the same university in 2004. Her PhD work focused on the immobilization and release kinetics of recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein 2 (rhBMP-2) from metal implant surfaces, under the supervision of Prof. HP Jennissen. From 2004 to 2006 she was a post-doctoral associate at the University Medical School of Essen working on the development of novel bioactive dental and bone implants. From 2006 to 2008 she was a post-doctoral fellow supported by the EU ENTER program at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at FORTH (Prof. Electra Gizeli), performing research on biosensing protein and cell interactions with titanium surfaces. From 2007 to 2010 she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the University of Crete teaching courses on Biological Materials and Composite Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering.
In 2010 she was appointed Assistant Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Crete (tenured 2014; promoted to Associate Professor 2019; promoted to Professor 2024).
She served as Chair of the 28th Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) held in Athens (2017), and Program Chair of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) EU Conference held in Rhodes (2019). She is a Fellow in Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE, elected 2020) of the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering (IUS-BSE), International Fellow of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (FTERM, elected 2023), and Fellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (FIAMBE, elected 2024). In 2023 she has been elected European Orthopedic Research Society (EORS) Ambassador for Greece. In 2024 she has been elected member of the Steering Committee of the International College of Fellows of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (ICF-BSE) for the term 2024-2028.

Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Division of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan
He leads the Tissue Engineering Research Group (TERG) to develop scaffold-guided tissue engineering for treating tissue/organ injuries and combating infectious diseases. 
Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME)
He has received the USask Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award.

Professor of Physics, Leibniz University Hannover
His scientific interests span through the following disciplines: laser physics and laser applications, quantum and nonlinear optics, nano- and biophotonics, nanoengineering, biomedical implants and devices, biofabrication, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine.
Editorial board member of the following journals: “Materials Science and Engineering: C Materials for Biological Applications”; “International Journal of Bioprinting”; “Nanotechnology, Science and Applications”
Member of the Expert Committee of the European Society of Thin Films: Surfaces and Coatings for biotechnology and medical technology (FABM)
Member of the International Biofabrication Society

1976-1980 B.S., Dept of Mechanics and Design, Seoul National University
1980-1982 M.S.,Dept of Mechanics and Design, Seoul National University
1983-1986 Ph.D., Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dong-Woo Cho is a prominent academic researcher specializing in tissue engineering and biomedical engineering, particularly in the field of 3D cell printing and biofabrication. He is known for his work on developing high-performance bio-inks and applying 3D printing technology to create functional tissue and organ models. He is affiliated with the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH).

Professor at Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino
Gianluca Ciardelli graduated in Chemistry summa cum laude from the University of Pisa (1994). In 1997, he received his PhD in Natural Sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich with a thesis on biodegradable synthetic polyurethanes for biomedical applications.
He coordinates the research group on Materials for Bionanotechnologies and the biomedical laboratory. A team of 15 people on average active in research in the field of biomedical polymers for tissue engineering, drug delivery, and molecular recognition. 
Editorial board member of International Journal of Bioprinting, Nanomaterials

Jeremy is Director of the Arto Hardy Family Biomedical Innovation Hub at Chris O'Brien Lifehouse Hospital, conjoint Arto Hardy Family Chair and Professor of Biomedical Innovation in the School of Medical Sciences at the University of Sydney (UOS), and Professorial Fellow - Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wollongong (UOW) and the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute (Hon).
Jeremy attained his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD - Medicine; NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarship awardee) at UOM followed by a US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fogarty International Centre Fellowship.
At UOW, Jeremy's team is making award winning (Research Australia 2019 Health and Medical Research Frontiers Research Award) discoveries through next generation tissue building for drug and disease modelling, and regenerative medicine. Their research integrates front-line technologies stem cells, innovative biomaterials, 3D bioprinting and bioelectronics, and is establishing Australia's position as a global leader in innovative tissue engineering and electroceuticals for advanced research and medicine.

Professor and Executive director (International Affairs) at at the Institut Pascal, Université Clermont Auvergne
Cédric does research in Marine Biology, Ethnobotany and Biotechnology. Cédric is an international expert in: polysaccharide field, biobased and bio-inspired material.

Since 2005, Rui Domingues has been dedicated to research in different institutions, building a multidisciplinary background in chemical engineering, material science, nanotechnology and tissue engineering. Rui is Research Group Leader at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), where he leads interdisciplinary research at the interface of nanotechnology, biomaterials science, and regenerative medicine. He graduated in Industrial Chemistry and Management (2006), obtained a MSc in Materials Derived from Renewable Resources (2008) and a PhD in Chemical Engineering (2012) at University of Aveiro, Portugal, under the supervision of Prof. Carlos Pascoal Neto and Carlos Silva. He joined 3Bs Research Group, University of Minho, Portugal, as a Postdoc under Prof. Manuela Gomes mentoring (supported by a Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT) Grant), where he has worked since 2013. During this period, he was a PostDoc at Prof. Nicolas Peppas Lab, University of Texas at Austin, USA in 2016. He later returned to 3B’s as Assistant Researcher and Invited Professor before joining the INL in 2025. Rui Domingues research has been supported by national and EU-funded programs, including the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant (FORTIFy). His research focus on the development of functional biomaterials for TERM applications, particularly exploring different nanostructured biomaterials for tendon tissue engineering and for studying cell behavior. His current research interests include the development of molecularly imprinted strategies to produce intelligent biomaterial, a field in which he was awarded in 2020 with the highly competitive Individual Support from FCT Stimulus of Scientific Employment (CEEC) allowing him to establish this new research line at 3Bs (BioMIN and Wi-Pi projects).

Professor in Pharmaceutical Technology and Process Engineering; Director of Centre for Research Innovation (CRI)
Professor Dennis Douroumis obtained his BSc in Chemistry and PhD from the Department of Pharmacy at Patras University in Greece. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow (2004) at the Friedrich–Schiller University of Jena, Department of Pharmacy for the development of parenteral formulations of antiepileptic drugs (Novartis Pharma, Basel). He also worked as a team leader (2005) in the development of nano-liposomal formulations and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis by applying photodynamic therapy (Biolitec Pharma GmbH.) Following this, he worked for Phoqus Pharmaceutical plc as a senior scientist at the product development department.
His research area focuses on the development of secondary continuous manufacturing by using hot melt extrusion (HME) of extrusion granulation coupled with PAT tools. His group is also involved in development of targeted anticancer drug delivery systems such as SLNs or NLCs produced by high-pressure homogenization. Finally he is actively involved in ink jetting and 3D printing technologies for the development of medical devices (e.g. microneedles, stents) and personalized medicines.
He has published more than 80 research articles, 7 book chapters and edited two books on HME and the delivery of water insoluble APIs. He has patented two proprietary technologies on the coating of transdermal microneedles and printing of drug eluting stents. Professor Douroumis has delivered keynote presentations at national and international conferences while his group presented several poster presentations.

Clinical Assistant Professor at at University of Maryland, Baltimore
January 2014-January 2018 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Oral Sciences, National University of Singapore
May 2018 – January 2021 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Cariology, University of Michigan
His current research focuses on the development of biomaterial for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Specifically, my research involves the development of novel hybrid bio-inks for 3D bioprinting the constructs containing living cells with a focus on applications in dental tissue regeneration.

Professor at Tel Aviv University, Israel
Director, Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
The Closner Family Chair for Next Generation Organ and Tissue Implants
Director, Tel Aviv University Center for Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, The Chaoul Center for Nanoscale Systems
Director, Sagol Center for Regenerative Biotechnology
He obtained his B.Sc. (2003) and Ph.D. (2008) degrees from the faculty of Engineering at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. His Ph.D., research, under the supervision of Prof. Smadar Cohen, focused on cardiac tissue engineering and regeneration. Tal continued his postdoctoral studies in the laboratory of Prof. Robert Langer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT. His postdoc research focused on advanced materials for tissue engineering and regeneration.

Associate professor of Faculty of Engineering Technology, KU Leuven
Head of Manufacturing Processes and Systems (MaPS)
Head of the Subdivision 4, De Nayer (Sint-Katelijne-Waver) Campus
Member of Leuven.AM – KU Leuven Institute for Additive Manufacturing

Professor of Pharmaceutical Science, University of South Australia
Professor Sanjay Garg is a pharmaceutical scientist dedicated to advancing drug discovery, development, and delivery to transform lives of human and animal patients. With a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Master's degree in Management, and a passion for innovation, he leads translational research that bridges cutting-edge science with practical healthcare solutions. As Co-Director of the Centre for Pharmaceutical Innovation (CPI) and Director of the Pharmaceutical Innovation and Development Group (PIDG) at the University of South Australia, Professor Garg drives pioneering research to develop novel therapeutics and delivery systems.
His patented formulations, including Acidform (USA Patent 6706276), have achieved significant global impact, with the FDA-approved non-hormonal contraceptive Phexxi marketed in the USA and other innovations reaching clinical stages and markets in India, New Zealand, the UK, and Australia. Previously, as Deputy Head of the Pharmacy School at the University of Auckland, he established a Good Laboratory Practice (GLP)-compliant analytical laboratory and played a pivotal role in developing research and postgraduate programs, nurturing the next generation of pharmaceutical scientists.

Antonio Gloria is Professor of Design and Methods of Industrial Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II. He is also Professor of “Bio-Inspired Generative Design for Additive Manufacturing”. Since 2011 he is Visiting Professor at the CDRSP - Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal. He was a Senior Researcher at the National Research Council of Italy (Institute of Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials).

Antonio Gloria is a member of the Italian Association of Design Methods and Tools for Industrial Engineering. In 2016 he was appointed as member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Fraunhofer International Joint Laboratory IDEAS – University of Naples Federico II and member of The Royal Society (UK) - International Exchanges Committee in January 2020.

Antonio Gloria was awarded and appointed as “Future Leader” in Science and Technology (“Dialogue between Nobel Laureates and Future Leaders”, STS forum – October 2015, Kyoto, Japan). He is a member of international scientific committees and chaired technical sessions in seminars, conferences and workshops. He is currently author of international papers, book chapters, communications/contributions in international and national conferences. He is also reviewer and Editorial Board Member of international scientific journals.

Professor of Bioengineering at the School of Medicine and Instit Biomedical Sciences (ICBAS) of the University of Porto
Leader of the Research Group on Regenerative Medicine and 3D Tissue Modelling at the Unit for Multidisciplinary Research in Biomedicine (UMIB-ICBAS). 
Her education started at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) with a degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, and was continued at the University of Minho (MSc in Polymer Eng in collaboration with the company Isotis in The Netherlands and a PhD in Tissue Engineering in collaboration with Rice University, USA). 
She was a founder member of the 3B’s Research Group of the University of Minho and she was the first President of the I3Bs Research Institute, funded in 2018.
Manuela Gomes is Fellow of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (FTERM, class 2021). As of June 2024 she is Chair of the European Chapter of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS-EU); She is also the Ambassaro in Portugal to the European Orthopaedic Research Society (EORS).
Her research interests currently focus on tissue engineering strategies for regeneration and modelling, namely in the development of scaffold materials and bioinks based on biodegradable natural origin polymers, stem cells sourcing and differentiation (using biochemical and physical methods, particularly magnetic stimulus). Manuela Gomes has been involved in several European and national/regional projects as PI or team member; She currently coordinates a Consolidator Grant (CoG)  - MagTendon and a COST Action - TENET. 

Head of RAMSES Laboratory, Department of Research and Innovation Technology, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute
In 1980: Degree in Biological Science, University of Bologna, Italy.
From 2009: Biology Research Manager. Special qualification in 'Physiopathology and cartilage Regeneration”. Immunorheumatology and Tissue Regeneration Laboratory, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute.

Assistant Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design
Dr. Michinao Hashimoto received B.S. degrees in Chemistry and Biochemistry/Biophysics with honors from Oregon State University in 2003, and Ph.D. degree from Harvard University in 2009 under the guidance of Prof. George Whitesides. Prior to joining SUTD, he completed his postdoctoral training at MIT and Children’s Hospital Boston under the guidance of Prof. Daniel Kohane and Prof. Robert Langer.
He has served as visiting scholars at multiple institutions, including Polish Academy of Science (Poland), University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), National Tsinghua University (Taiwan), the University of Tokyo (Japan), and Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabia).

Charlotte A.E. Hauser is a Professor of Bioscience and the Chair of the Bioengineering Program at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. Before joining KAUST, she was a Principal Investigator at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, A*Star, Singapore, and Adjunct Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Trained as a chemist, she did her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Cologne, Germany, then joined INSERM in Paris, and later the Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany. She was a Founder and Managing Director of Octagene in Munich/Martinsried, Germany. There, she developed the first fourth generation human recombinant coagulation factor VIII (hFVIII). This recombinant human clotting factor NUWIQ® is the newest hFVIII replacement and since 2014 on the market. She is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineers (AIMBE) and since 2015 a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI). In 2016, she started the KAUST spin-off company PepPrint. Her research includes molecular self-assembly, synthetic peptide biomaterials, novel inhibitor compounds for neurodegenerative diseases, and regenerative therapies as well as 3D bioprinting. 

Professor at Department of Dentistry, Kyung Hee University

Professor of Plastic and Hand Surgery, Chairman of the Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, and Director of the Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany.
Beyond his clinical research projects, Prof. Horch has been a pioneer in the field of tissue engineering since its inception. His contributions include advancing cultured keratinocyte transplantation by exploring single-cell suspensions in fibrin sealant and integrating three-dimensional vascularization of tissue-engineered matrices using microsurgical arteriovenous loops. These innovations, combined with material research for various tissue types, have paved the way for the application of tissue engineering techniques in angiogenesis and cancer research.
Prof. Horch has authored or co-authored over 300 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters on various aspects of reconstructive surgery, with a particular focus on microsurgical techniques, including transplantation, breast reconstruction, aesthetic surgery, grafting techniques, and tissue engineering approaches. Additionally, he has contributed to the development of novel treatment modalities for severe wounds and burns. As an editor of multiple books, Prof. Horch has been widely recognized for his clinical and experimental scientific achievements and has received numerous awards for his contributions to the field.

2023-Present: Professor, Department of Precision Medicine, College of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University
2013-2023: Professor, Department of Biomechatronic Eng., Sungkyunkwan University
2019: Visiting Professor, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM), USA (Coworker: Prof. Sang Jin Lee)
2016: Visiting Professor, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Spain (Coworker: Dr. Elena Martinez)
2012: Visiting Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, USA (Coworker: Prof. Larry Bonassar)
2008-2012: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Chosun University, South Korea
2005-2008: Senior Researcher, Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM), South Korea
2004-2005: Senior Researcher, R&D center, Samsung Electronics Inc., South Korea
1994-2000: Researcher, Toray Advanced Materials Korea Inc., South Korea
2003: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Professor Richard Bibb joined Nottingham Trent University (NTU) as Associate Dean of Research for the School of Art & Design in 2023. He is responsible for all research activities in the School and works closely with academic staff, researches, project partners and stakeholders to develop high quality research outputs and attract external research funding.
After gaining a BSc in Industrial Design from Brunel University in 1995 he studied for a PhD in design for Additive Manufacturing at the National Centre for Product Design & Development Research (PDR), Cardiff Metropolitan University. He remained at PDR to lead the Medical Applications research group, rising to the role of Director for Research before leaving in 2008. From 2008 Richard joined the Department of Design & Technology, at Loughborough University and remained during the formation of Loughborough Design School and subsequently the School of Design & Creative Arts. During his time at Loughborough, Richard achieved Professor title in 2015 and then served as Associate Dean of Research for 5 years, interrupted by a 9-month period as Acting Dean. This was followed by a period as REF2021 Unit of Assessment Lead for D32 Art & Design and most recently Director of Research.

Associate Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Convergence IT Engineering, and Life Science, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, Integrative Biosciences and Biotechnology, POSTECH (2010-2015)
B.S. Mechanical Design & Automation Engineering, Seoul National University of Science & Technology
B.S. Manufacturing Systems and Design of Engineering, Northumbria University (Dual Bachelor's degrees; 2006-2010)
Founder, Chief Executive Officer of BioBricks Co., Ltd
Scientific Advisory Board of Gradient Bio Convergence Corp.
Scientific Advisory Board of EdmicBio Inc.

Dr. Jingchao Jiang is a Lecturer in Production and Manufacturing Systems (E&R) in the Department of Engineering at the University of Exeter. He obtained his PhD from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and later worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include additive manufacturing, sustainable manufacturing, biomedical applications of additive manufacturing, and the integration of AI and machine learning into manufacturing processes.

Prof. Jiang has pursued an impressive medical career for 34 years, during which he has performed over 20,000 surgeries and provided treatment to more than 100,000 patients. Since 1989, he has been actively involved in both clinical and basic research in the field of orthopedic and sports medicine. He is the first clinical doctor in sports medicine who was cultivated in China, and the sole recipient in the field of sports medicine to have been awarded the National Outstanding Youth Fund. Under his leadership, the Department of Sports Medicine and Adult Reconstructive Surgery, is the only joint disease diagnosis and treatment center identified by the Jiangsu Provincial Health Department. 
Professor Jiang is the chief scientist in a national key research and development program.
Prof. Jiang is the first committee member from China of the Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI), the Vice Chair of the China branch of the basic research branch of the International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology (SICOT), the Vice Chair of China branch of the International Cartilage Regeneration and Joint Preservation Society (ICRS), the Vice Chairman of sports medicine branch of Chinese Medical Association, the Chairman-designate of orthopedics branch of Jiangsu province, the Chairman of sports medicine branch of Jiangsu province, and the head of Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital Orthopedics Laboratory of the International Chinese Musculoskeletal Research Society (ICMRS), among others.

Associate Professor at Division of Materials Science and Engineering, Hanyang University
March 2008 – February 2013 Ph.D. Degree in Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
March 2004 – February 2008 B.S. Degree in Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Biomaterials, Military Medical Research, and International Journal of Bioprinting

Lifeng Kang is an Associate Professor at the School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney. His laboratory is focused on microscale technologies and 3D printing for drug delivery and regenerative medicine. He has published 3 books, 5 book chapters, 86 peer-reviewed journal articles(65 as the first or corresponding author), 91 abstracts and filed 10 patent applications(5 granted and 3 licensed). His work has been published in leading journals such as Nature Nanotechnology, Advanced Drug Delivery Review, Journal of Controlled release, Advanced Functional Materials, Biofabrication, Coordination Chemistry Reviews.His publications received 4626 citations, with an H-index of 40 (Google Scholar), among global top 2% scientists (Stanford University, 2022-2024).

Ali Khademhosseini, Ph.D., is the CEO of the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation. Formerly, he was Levi Knight Professor of Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, and Radiology at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA). He was the Founding Director of the Center for Minimally Invasive Therapeutics at UCLA.  He joined UCLA starting from Nov. 2017 from Harvard University, where he was a Professor at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and faculty at the Harvard-MIT’s Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) as well as an associate faculty at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. At Harvard University, he directed the Biomaterials Innovation Research Center (BIRC), a leading initiative in making engineered biomedical materials. 
He is a leader in applying bioengineering solutions to precision medicine. His large interdisciplinary research team is interested in developing ‘personalized’ solutions that utilize micro- and nanoscale technologies to enable a range of therapies for organ failure, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. In enabling this vision, he works closely with clinicians (including interventional radiologists, cardiologists, and surgeons). For example, he has developed numerous techniques in controlling the behavior of patient-derived cells to engineer artificial tissues and cell-based therapies. He is also developing ‘organ-on-a-chip’ systems that aim to mimic human physiology and pathology to enable patient-specific evaluation of drug candidates. In addition, his laboratory is a leader in utilizing biofabrication to form vascularized tissues with appropriate microarchitectures as well as regulating stem cell differentiation in microengineered environments. He has pioneered various high-performance biomaterials that can respond to each patient’s needs. He has edited multiple books/journal special issues and is an author on >750 peer-reviewed journal articles, editorials, review papers, >70 book chapters/edited books, and >50 patent/disclosure applications. His work has been published in leading journals and routinely highlighted in international media. He has been cited >134,300 times and has an H-index of 188. Also, he has given over 250 invited seminars and keynote lectures. Every year since 2014, he has been selected by Thomson Reuters as one of the World’s Most Influential Minds as a Highly Cited Researcher.
He is on the editorial boards of numerous journals, including Small, RSC Advances, Advanced Healthcare Materials, Biomaterials Science, Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Biomacromolecules, Reviews on Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Materials, Journal of Biomaterials Science-Polymer Edition and Biofabrication.

Professor at Department of Molecular Science and Technology/Department of Applied Chemistry, Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea
Adjunct Professor in Purdue University
1986-1990 Bachelor, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Inha University  
1996-1998 Master's degree, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Inha University  
1998-2001 Ph.D., Department of Electronic Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology 

Prof. Dr. Bahattin Koç is the Director of SU IMC and Professor of Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering at the Sabancı University. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering from North Carolina State University in 2001 and 1997 respectively and his B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey in 1993. He was an Associate Professor (Tenured) of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University at Buffalo (UB) before joining to Sabancı University in 2010.

His research interests include additive manufacturing, heterogeneous object modelling and manufacturing, computational geometry for design and manufacturing, nano/micro-scale manufacturing, three dimensional (3D) Bioprinting and product realization.  He is the recipient of the Elginkan Foundation Science and Technology Award, Turkish Heart Association Award, “Most cited Author in Computer Aided Design” Award from Elsevier, UB STOR Inventor Award and UB Reifler Award. He has published more than 80 scientific publications (journal articles, book chapters and conference articles). Prof. Koç’s research works have been supported by major national, international research agencies and organizations and companies such as the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), the Turkish Ministry of Development, the European Research Council FP7, U.S. Army Medical Research and companies. Prof. Koç is an Associate Editor and a member of editorial boards of several journals in his research area. His recent research work related to 3D Organ Bioprinting was highlighted at several international and national TV channels (BBC, CNN Turk etc.)  Newspapers and blogs.

Professor Dimitrios A. Lamprou (Ph.D. MBA) is the Chair of Biofabrication and Advanced Manufacturing, Director of Internationalisation (DoI), and Director at MSc Industrial Pharmaceutics at School of Pharmacy (ranked 19 in the world) at Queen's University Belfast. He is also the Chair at United Kingdom and Ireland Controlled Release Society (UKICRS) and Visiting Professor in a number of International Institutions. Dimitrios is leading a vibrant multi-cultural and interdisciplinary group, and involved in many different committees within the school, faculty, university, nationally, and internationally.
Editor for Heliyon (Pharmaceutical Sciences), Section Editor-in-Chief for Pharmaceutics (Physical Pharmacy and Formulation), Associate Editor at Innovation and Emerging Technologies, Associate Editor at Frontiers in Medical Technology (Nano-Based Drug Delivery), Guest Editor for 30+ Special Issues in International Refereed Journals (e.g., International Journal of Pharmaceutics, Polymers) and Editorial Board Member for 5+ Refereed Journals.

Assistant Professor at Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea
2012-2017 Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC Advisor: Prof. Kristopher A. Kilian
2008-2010 M.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University Advisor: Prof. Wooyoung Lee
2003-2008 B.S. Metallurgical Engineering, Yonsei University
Early-Career Researcher Board Member of Advanced NanoBiomed Research (2024.08~Current)
Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Bioprinting (2024.10~Current)

Associate Professor at Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Gachon University
MAR. 1997-FEB. 2002 Bachelor, Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
MAR. 2002-AUG. 2009 Ph.D, Mechanical/Industrial Engineering (Master/Doctoral Integrated Program), Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) 

Professor and Dean, Biomedical Engineering Department, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Head, Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering Laboratory, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
2002 Post Doctorate in Tissue engineering, MIT, Cambridge, USA
1999 PhD, Direct Ph.D. program, Molecular Cell Biology Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
1992 BSc Magna Cum Laude, Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Khoon is a biomedical engineer with specialization in polymer chemistry. He completed a concurrent degree - Bachelors (Hons 1) in Chemical Engineering and Masters in Biomedical Engineering, followed by a PhD in Biomedical Engineering (graduated 2014) from the University of New South Wales. He then went to join the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Musculoskeletal Medicine at the University of Otago Christchurch in New Zealand for a postdoctoral fellowship, where he established the Light Activated Biomaterials (LAB) research group in 2019. In 2022, he joined the University of Sydney.

His research focus is on adopting a class of polymers known as hydrogels as tissue engineering matrices for a variety of applications. His has developed a number of research technology platform, primarily using photo-polymerizable hydrogel bioinks for 3D bioprinting of functional tissues and also delivery of bioactive molecules to promote tissue regeneration. He has successfully raised a total of >$8M research grant funding ($6.5M as lead CI). He has been awarded a number of New Zealand's most prestigous grants and fellowships, including the MARSDEN Fast Start Grant and Rutherford Discovery Fellowship from the Royal Society of New Zealand, as well as the Emerging Researcher First Grant, Sir Charles Hercus Health Research Fellowship and Project Grant from the Health Research Council of New Zealand. Since his move to Australia, he has been successful in attracting funding in a number of prestigious schemes, including the NSW Health Cardiovascular Elite Grant and the Australian Research Council Future Fellowship.

His research has also generated a number of intellectual property and patent applications, including a full utility patent now granted in China, Australia, America and Europe, where he’s the lead inventor. He is also involved in a number of collaborative projects involving national and international collaborators (Germany, Netherlands, Australia, China and Scotland). He is the current President of the Australasian Society for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Board Member of the International Society for Biofabrication, and Executive Board Member of the New Zealand Medical Technology Research Acceleration Programme. He also serves on a number of editorial boards including RSC Biomaterials Science, Biofabrication, Macromolecular Bioscience, International Journal of Bioprinting, Tissue Engineering: Part B, Biomedical Physics and Engineering Express and Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine.

Prof. Lim completed his undergraduate degrees in Biosystems Engineering at Konkuk University and an MA in Biomechatronics from Sungkyunkwan University. Ki-Taek continued his doctoral studies in Biosystems Engineering at Seoul National University under the joint supervision of Prof. Jong Hoon Chung. He held a postdoctoral appointment at Dental Research Institute, Seoul National University where he developed high-throughput automated culture platforms via a bioreactor process engineering for enhanced tissue regeneration from stem cells in Prof. Pill-Hoon Choung’s laboratory, plus, he developed nanoparticles as tools to control stem cells in Prof. Jin-Woo Kim’s Bio/Nano-Technology Group, Institute for Nanoscience and Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Ki-Taek joined KNU as an Assistant Professor of Biosystems Engineering in Feb. 2015, with getting along with an Adjunct Professor and a Visiting Scholar at SNU (Seoul National University).

Lecturer at School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol
2014-2018 PhD Mechanical, aerospace and civil engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester, GB
2013-2014 MSc Physical and Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, GB
2008-2012 BA, School of mechanical engineering and mechanics, Ningbo University, Zhejiang, China

Senior Research Fellow at Australian Institute for Innovative Materials, Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, Wollongong, Australia
B.Sc. Bachelor of Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
M.Sc. Master of Science, Biology, National University of Singapore
Ph.D. Doctor of Philosophy, Chemistry University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

Professor of Human Anatomy, Department of Neuroscience, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
2002 to 2004 PhD in Neuroscienc, Department of Human Anatomy and Physiology, University of Padua

Carmelo De Maria is an Associate Professor in Bioengineering at the Dept. of Information Engineering of the University of Pisa (Italy) and carries out his research in the Biofabrication Laboratory of the Center “E. Piaggio” of the same Institution. He is the author of several peer-reviewed papers and he is involved in research projects funded by public and private entities, focused on the 3D/4D printing for the valorization of polymers derived from biomasses and for the development of advanced therapies and innovative medical devices. Finally, De Maria is active in international cooperation to increase the access to safe and sustainable medical technologies in low-resource settings.

Group Leader at Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia: Barcelona, ES
Dr. Elena Martínez has a PhD degree in Physics (University of 3 six-year research terms recognized by the AQU (Agency for the Quality of the University System in Catalonia), from 1999-2017. From the January 1st, 2010 she has supervised or co-supervised 10 PhD theses at the UB, all of them awarded with the maximum degree. One of these theses was awarded with an extraordinary doctoral prize and another one with a Pioner Prize for the excellent potential in technological transfer. From her former PhD students, two are currently Group Leaders in Buenos Aires and Braga, while others moved after the thesis to highly prestigious centers such as the Inst. Pasteur, the Mechanobiology Inst. In Singapore and the ISIS in Strasbourg. According to Scopus, the PI is the co-author of 116 publications (80% in Q1 journals), that accumulate 3699 citations and an h-index of 37 with an average of 211 citations/year over the last five years. Within this last five years, she has filed 3 patent applications as co-inventor. She is the author of publications in high-impact journals such as Nano Letters, Nature Protocols, Trends in Molec. Medicine, PNAS, Biomaterials (2) and Small (3). She has also been invited as a keynote /invited speaker in relevant forums such as the Word Biomaterial Conference, Spring/Fall -MRS, E-MRS and ESOF. Also, within the last five years she has been the PI of national projects (TEC2017-83716-C2-1-R, CaixaHealth HR20-00637) and European ones (ERC-CoG 647863, ERC-PoC 899906 and FET-OPEN 828931).

Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Director, ARC Centre for Cell and Tissue Engineering Technologies
Director, SPARK Monash Program
Professor Laurence Meagher is interested in how material science and engineering can be applied to and help solve medical problems. As the world population ages, new solutions are required to help shape the future of medicine. The approaches Laurence uses are framed by his extensive experience leading commercially focused research and development with commercial clients. For example, Laurence was a key member of the team that developed the Air OPTIX(TM) soft silicone hydrogel contact lens. Many devices and materials used in the clinic have been selected for their material properties or function. Often however, the surface properties are not optimal. In a number of cases, sub-optimal surface properties can lead to reduced function and even failure of the device. Laurence uses his background in surface and polymer science to engineer the properties of surface coatings for used in medical applications.
In particular there are still strong clinical needs in three main areas: (i) bacterial infections which arise from the implantation of medial devices or use of catheters, (ii) thrombosis or blood clot formation on materials which are placed in the blood stream and (iii) fibrosis or scar tissue formation on or around devices implanted devices or materials which, as most foreign objects do, invoke an immune response. These are three examples of clinical areas where designed surface coatings can really help to provide solutions to these very challenging problems. For example, Laurence is applying controlled radical polymerisation approaches to the preparation of antibacterial coatings. He has already developed new polymers that work very well against a range of medially relevant and drug resistant bacteria and fungi; and which kill biofilms, whilst having low toxicity to human cells. Of great importance is that these polymers do not result in development of resistance and are very inexpensive to make on a large scale. Surface coating approaches are also very important in the new area of cell therapies. Where material science and surface engineering can make a difference in this field is in the generation of synthetic coatings and culture systems for cell manufacture that do not use animal products. This reduces the risk of infection and makes the manufacture of these important cells less expensive, which can make the treatments available to more people. These types of concepts (synthetic materials for cell growth) can also be applied in the preparation of synthetic scaffold materials that support the growth of cells for tissue regeneration. This field is often called tissue engineering.

Ferry Melchels is Research Professor: Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering in the Future Industries Institute at the University of South Australia. His main interests lie in polymeric biomaterials for 3D printing, tissue engineering, and drug and vaccine delivery. His work has been published in leading journals, attracting over 17,000 citations. He is a recipient of the Patrick Neill Medal from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Mid-Career Investigator Award from the International Society for Biofabrication.
Ferry holds an MSc (2005) in chemical engineering and PhD (2010) in biomaterials from the University of Twente (The Netherlands). He has held positions at Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane, Australia), University Medical Center Utrecht (The Netherlands) and Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, UK).

Nikolaos Michailidis is Professor and Director of the Physical Metallurgy Laboratory (PML), School of Mechanical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece. He is also Research Professor at Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), President of the Hellenic Metallurgical Society (HMS), Chair of the Centre for Research & Development οn Advanced Materials – a joint initiative between TEES and AUTH and co-founder of PLiN Nanotechnology S.A. (AUTH’s spin-off). He is Fellow of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP), member of various Scientific Societies and Boards, Chair of the Scientific Committee of EUROMAT 2019, Member of the Executive Committee of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) and Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Materials by Taylor & Francis and FEMS.
He served as Director of the Interdepartmental Post Graduate Studies Programme, 'Processes & Technology of Advanced Materials' - AUTH and as Chair of the Design & Construction Division (School of Mechanical Engineering-AUTH), while he was Visiting Professor at Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology (IPT), Aachen-Germany (2008-2009). He was Chair of the 13th International Conference THE”A” Coatings in Manufacturing Engineering, (2017) and Chair of the Scientific Committee of Junior Euromat (2016). Among various distinctions, he received the Innovation Award by the AUTh (2018), the Excellency Award by the AUTh (2017) and the Excellency & Innovation Award by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2008). His scientific interests are related to Porous materials / Coatings / Rapid prototyping / Nanoparticles production / Smart materials / Corrosion / Fatigue.
Ηe is author of 136 journal papers publications, 259 publications in International Conferences, 4 Book Chapters, 4 articles in International Encyclopaedias, 117 publications in Greek language in National Conferences, 14 Patents, with over 4000 citations and h-index: 35.

Dr. David K. Mills is a Professor of Biology and Biomedical Engineering at Louisiana Tech University. He holds a B.A. in Ancient History and Classics from Indiana University, an M.A. in Biological Anthropology, and a Ph.D. in Anatomy and Cell Biology from the University of Illinois. His research focuses on targeted drug delivery, cancer biomaterials, and temporomandibular joint (TMJ) bioengineering.

Vladimir Mironov was born in Russia in 1954. Vladimir Mironov finished Ivanovo State Medical Institute in 1977 as a medical doctor. He got his PhD in Developmental Biology from Second Moscow Pirogov Medical Institute in 1980. He was trained by Prof. Peter Kaufmann at The Department of Anatomy RWTH in Aachen and Werner Risau's lab in Germany in Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Matinsried, Germany. He later worked at The Department of Anatomy and Regenerative Medicine and Advanced Tissue Biofabrication Center in The Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC, USA and then at The Division of 3D Technologies of Renato Archer Institute for InformationTechnology at Campinas, SP, Brazil. Last 5 years he worked as a Chief Scientific Officer at 3D Bioprinting Solutions and Leading Scientist at Regenerative Medicine institute of Moscow Sechenov Medical University, Moscow, Russia. He is one of pioneer of 3D bioprinting technology. He already bioprinted a first functional and vascularised organ construct - a mouse thyroid gland.

Mario Moisés Alvarez is a Rómulo Garza Insignia Professor at Centro de Biotecnología-FEMSA in Tecnologico de Monterrey in Monterrey, México. He is a Biochemical Engineer by training and received a Ph.D. from Rutgers University in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering in 2001. Mario Alvarez has postdoctoral experience in both Industry and Academia. He conducted research and technology development at the Pharmaceutical Institute at Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (2001–2002) and was a Visiting Professor at the Harvard MIT Health Sciences Division in the Khademhosseini Lab (2014–2016).
Mario Alvarez is a senior AIChE member with technical expertise in diverse areas of materials science and engineering, including biotechnology and bioengineering, biofabrication, biomaterials engineering, micro- and nanotechnologies, mixing, and pharmaceutical engineering. He has more than 120 research papers published across these areas in prestige journals, such as Biomaterials, Advanced Materials, PNAS, Nature Review Materials, Materials Horizons, ACS Nano, Biofabrication, ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, Scientific Reports, Advanced Healthcare Materials, Acta Biomaterialia, and Biotechnology and Bioengineering. Mario Alvarez is also active in the area of technology development and has been granted two USPO patents and 12 Mexican patents.
At Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mario Alvarez has been a researcher and faculty member for more than 29 years, was the founder and first director of the Centro de Biotecnología FEMSA (2002-2010), and the founder of the Ph.D. Program in Biotechnology.

Maurice received a PhD in Materials Science from the University of Limerick. He is a lecturer in the School of Engineering, a member of the Bernal Institute and also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry ( FRSC ). The principal focus of his research group is on the structure/property/processing relationships of polymers in the application areas of regenerative medicine, drug delivery, and pharmaceutical materials.  Maurice has a strong track record in attracting funding to enable his research. He is the lead PI and coordinator of the H2020 LIBRE consortium, which focuses on next generation biomaterials. Other current areas of interest include the development of bioinks for 3D bioprinting and the development of immunomodulatory materials. Maurice is on the editorial board of Carbohydrate Polymers and the International Journal of Biological Macromolecules.

Dr. Makoto Nakamura graduated from the department of medicine, Kobe University in 1986. He developed his clinical skills in Kanazawa University and worked as a clinical pediatrician for 10 years.

His specialty is pediatric cardiology. After receiving the Ph.D. degree (Medicine) from Kanazawa University, he started the research on artificial heart from 1996 in National Cardiovascular Center Japan. In 1999, he was appointed as associate professor of Tokyo Medical and Dental University. During these research experiences, he learned several limitations of mechanical artificial organs, and he started the researches on tissue engineering. He focused on applying printing technology into tissue engineering, which is now called bioprinting and biofabrication. And he developed an inkjet 3D-bioprinter in 2006. In 2008, he became a professor of University of Toyama.

He has contributed much to developing bioprinting and biofabrication and to the establishment of the international society for biofabrication (ISBF) in 2010 as an inaugural board member. He organized the 2nd. annual conference of ISBF 2011 in Japan

Insup Noh is currently a professor of Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and founder of Convergence Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Biomaterials at the General Graduate School in the Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech), Seoul, Korea. He is also director/founder of Convergence Program of Healthcare & Biomedical Engineering at the Graduate School of Industry. Both convergence programs are jointly operated by the two national institutes of SeoulTech and Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences (KIRAMS).

He earned his Ph.D. degree at University of Texas in Austin, USA, under Dr. Jeffrey A. Hubbell. He also worked in California Institute of Technology as a special graduate student and in the Division of Harvard-MIT Health Science and Technology as a postdoctoral researcher. He is currently a vice president of Korean Society for BioMaterials and an auditor of Korean Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society. He also serves as an ISO TC150 member, Korea.

His major research interests focus on functional biomaterials for tissue engineering. He has been developing injectable hydrogels and scaffolds for bone, cartilage and blood vessels based on biodegradable polymers by focusing on their interactions with biological systems.

Ali obtained his pharmacy degree (PharmD) in 1989 from Tabriz School of Pharmacy, Iran. He completed his PhD on Pharmaceutical Technology at John Moores University, Liverpool in 1996 and has been a qualified pharmacist since 1989.He held a lectureship (1997 - 2001), and senior lectureship (2001 - 2003) at the School of Pharmacy, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. During this period he was head of postgraduate studies and also vice-dean for research for a period of 4 years in Tabriz School of Pharmacy. In 2003 he was appointed as lecturer of pharmaceutics at King’s College London, Department of Pharmacy. He worked as professor of Pharmaceutical Technology at Tabriz School of Pharmacy prior to this appointment as senior lecturer of Pharmaceutics at Medway School of Pharmacy. Ali has been promoted to Reader in 2013 and now he is a Professor in Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery at The University of Sussex, School of Life Sciences. He has supervised over 120 Mpharm, PharmD, MSc project students and 15 PhD postgraduate students at several institutions in various fields of pharmaceutical technology. At the present he is working on particle engineering, dissolution enhancement techniques and controlled release formulations. He is a regular reviewer for many international pharmacy journals and editorial board of several journals in pharmaceutical sciences. Ali has published a significant number of manuscripts (over 170 research articles in peer-reviewed international pharmacy journals ) on various fields of pharmaceutics, mainly, tableting, particle engineering, inhalation, skin delivery and controlled-release formulations. In addition, he published 5 book chapters (2010-2015) and a book on pulmonary drug delivery. He holds H-index of 34 with over 3000 citations till December 2015.

Graduation in Biochemistry (Faculty of Sciences – University of Porto). Post-Graduation in Biomedical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering – University of Porto). PhD in Materials Science and Technology, Tissue Engineering and Hybrid Materials (Dept. Polymer Engineering – University of Minho; http://hdl.handle.net/1822/9527).Habilitation in Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine and Stem cells by University of Minho.

He is the co-founder Editor-in-chief of In vitro Models (Springer Nature): https://www.springer.com/journal/44164/

He is one of the editors of the book Making Research Visible to the World, In Canon Foundation in Europe - Canon Alumni Book, eds. Helen Westgeest, Ma Li, Oscar Martinez Mozos, Joaquim Miguel Oliveira, Mercedes Rodrigo García, Corrie Siahaya-Van Nierop, Published by Canon Foundation in Europe, Amstelveen. For further info go to:

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Univ.Prof. Dr.rer.nat. Aleksandr Ovsianikov was appointed as University Professor of 3D Printing and Biofabrication at TU Wien with effect from 1 June 2019. He is a member of the Institute of Materials Science and Technology (E308) in the Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, opens in new window at TU Wien.

In 2008, Aleksandr Ovsianikov was awarded his doctorate at the Laser Zentrum Hanover (summa cum laude) of the University of Hanover for his thesis on "Investigation of two-photon polymerization technique for applications in photonics and biomedicine". Since 2010, Aleksandr Ovsianikov has been with the Additive Manufacturing Technologies (AMT) Group at TU Wien. In 2012, he obtained an ERC Starting Grant, followed by an ERC Consolidator Grant. He obtained his Venia Docendi in 2017, thus qualifying him to teach in the field of Additive Manufacturing. His postdoctoral (habilitation) thesis focused on "Additive manufacturing technologies for biomedical applications".

Together with a publisher-team he is responsible for a key publication in the specific field “3D Printing and Biofabrication". Besides, he is co-founder and head of research of the TU Wien spin-off  "UpNano GmbH", aiming at the commercialization of high-resolution 3D printing and bioprinting. The company was honored with several prices and was Start-Up of the year 2019 [Article in German].  

He is Head of the 3D Printing and Biofabrication Research Group in the Research Unit Polymer and Composite Materials (308-02). Moreover he is member of the Austrian Cluster for Tissue Regeneration, opens an external URL in a new window and was elected to the board of directors of the "International Society fo Biofabrication"

Sang-Hyug Park is an Associate Professor at Pukyong National University, Republic of Korea. From 2008 to 2010, he worked as a Researcher at Etex Corporation. From 2008 to 2011, he was a Postdoc at Tufts University. And in 2011, he worked as a Visiting Researcher for 4 months at TWIns in Japan. From 2011 to 2012, he was a Research Fellow at Wake Forest University. From 2012 to 2016, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the Jungwon University.

Alokesh Pramanik is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Curtin University. He earned his master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Singapore and the University of Sydney, respectively. He served as a Senior Research Officer at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (2008); a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, the University of Sydney (2008–2009); a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, the University of New South Wales (2009–2010); a Research Engineer at the Australian Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, the Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology (2010–2012); and a Research Fellow at the School of Engineering, Deakin University (2012), and joined Curtin University as a lecturer in 2012. His main research interests include bio-materials, bioprinting, polymer materials, and recycling plastics.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h.c.  Aldo R. Boccaccini is Professor of Biomaterials and Head of the Institute of Biomaterials at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.Prior to this appointment, he was Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Imperial College London, UK (2000-2009).
He has remained Visiting Professor of Materials at Imperial College London. He is also visiting professor at RWTH Aachen University (Germany) and Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Argentina). Boccaccini holds a MEng degree from Instituto Balseiro (Argentina), PhD (Dr-Ing.) from RWTH Aachen University (Germany) and Habilitation from Ilmenau University of Technology (Germany). Before joining Imperial College in 2000, he had appointments at the University of Birmingham (UK), the University of California at San Diego (USA) and the Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany. The research activities of Prof. Boccaccini are in the broad area of glasses, ceramics and polymer/glass composites for biomedical, functional and/or structural applications.
Prof. Boccaccini has also developed the electrophoretic deposition technique for production of nanostructured materials and composites with defined surface topography with potential use in the biomedical field. He is the author or co-author of more than 800 scientific papers and 15 book chapters. Boccaccini is Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (UK), the American Ceramic Society and the Society of Glass Technology (UK).

Michael Raghunath, MD, is Professor for Biochemistry, Protein Technology&Tissue Engineering at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Wädenswil, Switzerland. He heads the Center for Cell Biology & Tissue Engineering and is Director of the Competence Center for Tissue Engineering for Drug Development (TEDD). He received his PhD (habilitation) in Physiological Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry from the University of Münster, Germany. After clinical training in dermatology, he worked in industry as director R&D. From 2003-2016 he was an Associate Professor in the National University of Singapore. His basic and translational research experience spans more than 30 yrs during which he became an internationally distinguished scientist in the field of matrix and skin biology (wound repair, cornification disorders). Developing macromolecular crowding as principle in cell biology, he has created a novel field in Tissue Engineering to build cell-specific and lineage-directing microenvironments. He was an ETS Walton Visiting Fellowship at National University of Ireland, Galway and a Raine Visiting Professors at the University of Western Australia. Editorial Boards: Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, International Journal for Bioprinting, Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering. He is council member of the TERMIS-EU chapter, is in the executive committee of the Swiss 3R Competence Center, Biotechnet, and chairs the board of TEDD.  

Anabela Raymundo, Chemical engineer, MSc in Food Science and Technology and a PhD in Food Engineering. Associated Professor with Habilitation, the LEAF Food and Feed Group LEAF research unit coordinator https://www.isa.ulisboa.pt/en/leaf/research-groups/group-3-food-feed. Research work in close collaboration with companies, taking an active role in the transfer of knowledge from the university to the industry; Member of the Board of Directors of Portugal Foods (https://www.portugalfoods.org) and was a founding member of Colab4Food (https://colab4food.com). Coordinator of teaching areas of Food Rheology and Quality management. Main research areas of interest: functional properties of macromolecules; development of new food products; evaluation of the rheological behavior of different food matrices and relations with the structural composition. Main work focused on using poorly exploited food sources (e.g., microalgae biomass, seaweeds and insects and food industry by-products) to develop high added-value products. Participates in several national and international research. More than 100 ISI papers, supervision of 13 PhD theses and more than 50 Master's theses. Participation in several national and international research projects, namely as PI. Several awards in the area of innovation by different entities, namely, 4 Born From Knowledge prizes granted by the National Innovation Agency and the First prize in the Scientific Awards of the University of Lisbon - Agronomy area.

Professor Dr. Thomas Scheibel holds the Chair of Biomaterials at the University of Bayreuth. He is currently also Vice President for Research at the University of Bayreuth.

He received his diploma in biochemistry and his doctorate from the University of Regensburg, and his habilitation from the Technical University of Munich. He held a postdoctoral fellowship from the Kemper Foundation and the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the University of Chicago, USA.

In 2004, he received the Junior Scientist Award from the Competence Center for New Materials and in 2005 the Communicator Award from Promega GmbH. His other awards include the Bionics Prize of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in 2006 and the BMBF's ""Innovation from Nature Competition"" in 2007. He is one of the 10 recipients of the Bavarian Minister-President's Award for Innovation in 2006. He received the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Medal in 2007, the Karl-Heinz Beckurts Prize in 2008, and the Dechema Prize from the Max Buchner Foundation in 2013. He has been a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatec) since 2014.

Prof. Cijun Shuai obtained his Ph.D degree in 2006 from Central South University. He had a short time training at Medical University of South Carolina as a postdoctoral researcher. He was promoted as full professor in 2010 at Central South University. He joined Jiangxi University of Science and Technology since 2022. He has been majoring in additive manufacturing with biomaterials for regenerative medicine. Prof. Shuai has authored >200 peer-reviewed publications on subjects related to additive manufacturing. His lab has trained numerous graduate students, postdoctors and visiting scholars. His work is widely cited (>9,100 times), with a current H-index of 51 (Google Scholar). More than 70 patents have been authorized. He received the prestigious distinguished professor of Changjiang Scholars, the Innovation Leading Talents of the National Ten Thousand Talent Program, the National Natural Science Foundation for Excellent Young Scholars, the Innovation Leading Talents from Ministry of Science and Technology, the Innovation Leading Talents from Hunan Province.

Dr Sing Swee Leong joins the Department of Mechanical Engineering, NUS, as an Assistant Professor in August 2021. Prior to joining NUS, he was a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Singapore Centre for 3D Printing, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, after receiving the prestigious fellowship in 2020. Swee Leong was named a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate in 2024, 2023, and 2022. In 2022, he was also awarded the Young Professional Award by ASTM International for his work in additive manufacturing and contribution in standard development for the field. As a scientist and innovator, Swee Leong’s interest is enabling material development and creating strategic and sustainable values for Industry 4.0 and beyond through the use and integration of advanced manufacturing. He is actively involved in inter-disciplinary research.

Dr Sun is currently the Head, Professor of Department of Mechatronics and Robotics. She has broad academic working experience in China and Singapore for more than 20 years.She has extensive research experience in 3D Printing for Healthcare Product Design, 3D Customized Food Printing, Biomimetic Scaffold Fabrication, Intelligent Process Monitoring, and Mechatronics Instrumentation. Along with nearly 15 research projects sponsored by Singapore and China government agencies, and industries.https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=c-x5M2QAAAAJhl=zh-CN

Dr. Zhonghua Sun is a Professor of Medical Radiation Science at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. He obtained his PhD in 2002 from the University of Ulster, where he worked as a lecturer in radiography for two and a half years before joining Curtin University as a lecturer of medical radiation science in 2005. His research interests include 3D medical image visualization and processing, in particular cardiovascular CT imaging and 3D printing, virtual reality, and AI in cardiovascular diseases. He has published five books, 14 book chapters, and more than 350 refereed papers in medical and medical imaging journals. He is a Fellow of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. He also serves as an Associate Editor/Academic Editor for six journals and is an Editorial Board Member for more than 20 international imaging/medical journals.

Süleyman Ergün is a full Professor at the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Julius Maximilians University, Würzburg, Germany. Prior to being appointed to his current position, he completed his doctoral thesis (1993) and his “Habilitation” (1998) at the Institute of
Anatomy, Hamburg–Eppendorf University Hospital. He undertook a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School (Judah Folkman’s Lab) (1997) and was a member of the executive board of the Hamburg “Ärztekammer”, Germany (2002–2003). In 2006, he was appointed Chair of the Institute of Anatomy at Essen University Hospital, Germany. Since 2011, he has been Chair of the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Julius Maximilians University, Würzburg, Germany. He was a member of the executive board of the Anatomical Society (2014–2019) and has been elected to the review panel for medicine at the “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG (German Research Foundation) (since 2020). 

Savas Tasoglu received his Ph.D. degree in 2011 from UC Berkeley and held a postdoctoral appointment at Harvard Medical School. His research interests are at the interfaces of complex microfluidics, transport phenomena, and biomaterials with applications in biomedicine and biotechnology. He has received several awards, including a Marie Curie Fellowship, American Heart Association Scientist Development Award, NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award (declined), Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, and the Wolff New Venture Competition Award.

Professor Vijay is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering at New York University Abu Dhabi. He is also affiliated with the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, Brooklyn, USA. His research focus includes 3D printing and Bioprinting for tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, drug testing, and medical devices. He has published over 75 articles in peer-reviewed international journals, with a h-index of 34 and citations more than 5400. He holds editorial positions and serves as editorial board member of several reputed international journals including Bioprinting (Elsevier), Artificial Organs (Wiley), and International Journal of Bioprinting. His works include conductive scaffolds for neural tissue engineering, bioprinting of bi-layer functional human skin constructs, architected meta-materials-based design of bone implants for better biomimicry, and development of novel bioinks for bioprinting of soft tissues. He was the recipient of several prestigious awards including the President.

Giovanni Vozzi is Full Professor in Bioengineering. He is lecturer of Laboratory of Bioengineering and Chemical Bioengineering at I level of Biomedical Engineering, and of Micro and nano systems at II level of Biomedical Engineering. He acts as supervisors of PhD students in Materials Engineering and Biomedical Engineering and coordinates the work of several undergraduate students and graduate fellows. He was supervisor of 80 Master Degree thesis in Biomedical Engineering. He acts as reviewers for the most important journal in his field.He is member of Directors board of International Society for Biofabrication, of the Technical Committee on Biomanufacturing of American Society of Mechanical Engineering, of IEEE and Of National Group of Bioengineering.

Prof. Wang is a Full Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research focuses on metal matrix composites, the design and fabrication of biomedical metallic materials, and translational medicine. He has led multiple national-level research projects, and several key materials developed by his team have been successfully applied in the fields of national defense and biomedicine. He has published over 150 SCI-indexed papers, including 3 ESI Highly Cited Papers and 2 cover articles, and holds 18 authorized invention patents. He has been invited to deliver more than 20 keynote or invited talks at domestic and international academic conferences. Prof. Wang currently serves as an Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member for several SCI journals, including Virtual and Physical Prototyping.

Professor Yin Xiao, a dental specialist (BDSc 1986 and MDSc 1991), started his research career in 2000 (Ph.D. from the University of Queensland). He has been appointed as a tenured Distinguished Professor in Dentistry and Medicine at Griffith University since 2022. Before joining Griffith University, he was a full professor at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in 2012 and an associate professor from 2005 at QUT. He is the Founder, and the Director of the Australia-China Centre for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (ACCTERM), established in 2013, and the Joint Research Centre of functional biomaterials for tissue and organ replacement. His work has predominantly focused on bone, biomaterials, stem cells, dentistry, osteoarthritis, and tissue engineering. He initiated the concept of osteoimmunology in bone biomaterial development and introduced the "Materiobiology" in M. Phil's training courses at QUT. He has authored more than 340 journal papers, three books, and 23 book chapters. His H index is 73, and his work has been cited more than 20,000 times. He was named one of the top 250 researchers in Australia and the field leader in Biomedical Technology in 2019 and 2021 by Australian Research Magazine.

Barbara Zavan is an Assistant Professor of Histology and the Head of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Laboratory of the Biomedical Sciences Department of Padova University (Italy). She received her Ph.D. in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine from Padova University, where she also completed postdoctoral training in Stem Cell Biology. She is a member of several scientific societies, including TERMIS and the American Nano Society. Her research seeks to understand how changes in stem cell activity impact tissue homeostasis and repair throughout one's life and identify systemic molecules or surfaced modifications responsible for the regulation of regenerative potential.

Prof. Ioanna Zergioti is a Professor at the NTUA, School of Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences since 2003. She studied Physics at the University of Crete and she received the PhD degree at the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas. After her PhD, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Max Planck Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie in Göttingen, on Laser matter interactions studies. Then, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Philips CFT on Laser Stereolithograpy of sol gels for electronics until 2000. Her main research activities are related to the laser printing, patterning, sintering for printed and flexible electronics and sensors applications as well as laser bioprinting for regenerative applications and organ on chip. Since 2019 she is an acting CEO at the spin off PHOSPRINT, aiming to advance the regenerative applications of the bioprinting. She has co-authored more than 200 publications in international refereed journals and conference proceedings, 15 patents. Over the years she has gained experience in leading R&D activities in the frame of EU funded RIA as a principal investigator (in more than 20 projects overall)

Dr. Zhang is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Bioengineer in the Division of Engineering in Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Zhang is directing the Laboratory of Engineered Living Systems (www.shrikezhang.com), where the research is focused on innovating medical engineering technologies, including 3D bioprinting, organs-on-chips, microfluidics, and bioanalysis, to recreate functional tissues and their biomimetic models, for applications in regenerative medicine and personalized medicine.

Yi Zhang is currently a research scientist at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Previously he served as an assistant professor at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was also an affiliated faculty of China Singapore Joint International Research Institute, Singapore Center for 3D Printing, NTU-HP Digital Manufacturing Corp Lab, and Nanyang Quantum Science and Engineering Center. He received his Ph.D in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA, in 2013 and B.Eng in Bioengineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2007. He received his postdoc training in the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, the Agency of Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore from 2013−2015, and subsequently worked there as a Research Scientist from 2015−2016. His research aims to develop micro and nano systems to bridge the gap between engineering advancement and current medicine practice. He has published ~70 papers in high impact journals. His achievement is recognized by a series of awards including Nanyang Young Alumni Award, Outstanding Self-Financed Student Overseas, Hodson Fellowship, Siebel Scholar, and various Young Scientist Awards, Best Conference Awards and Art in Science Awards.

Prof. Hala Zreiqat AM, is Professor of biomedical engineering, and Director of the ARC Training Centre for Innovative BioEngineering, University of Sydney. She is a trailblazer in the field of biomaterials and tissue engineering; a national leader in advancing collaborative research ventures between academics, clinicians, and industry in the field of musculoskeletal and biomaterials research. The focus of her lab is on the development of novel engineered synthetic materials and 3D printed platforms for regenerative medicine, particularly in the fields of orthopaedics, dental and maxillofacial applications,which has led to several awarded patents and more than $18M in competitive funding. Prof. Zreiqat’sextraordinary contribution to regenerative medicine and orthopaedic research has led to a number of national and international awards, including being named a Member of the Order of Australia, the 2018 New South Wales Premier’s Woman of the Year, the King Abdullah II Order of Distinction, and the Eureka Prize winner for Innovative Use of Technology. She is a 2021-2022 Fulbright Senior Scholar; a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University (2016-2017); a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences; Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences; Australian Academy of Technology & Engineering; the International Orthopaedic Research Society; and the Royal Society of New South Wales, making her a fellow of all distinguished learning academies in Australia.

Prof. Bahcecioglu’s research interests are tissue engineering, biomaterials, tissue and tumor microenvironment, cell-ECM interactions, and 3D scaffolds. His research focuses on engineering functional tissues and 3D disease models, and he is currently working on the effect of aging and obesity on breast cancer and myocardial infarction progression.

He is an expert in 3D printing, electrospinning, scaffold processing, hydrogels, and organoids. He won the Lurie Cancer Center Translational Bridge Award and is aiming to translate his work to the clinic.

Gabriele Maria Fortunato is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Engineering and fellow of the Research Center “E. Piaggio”, University of Pisa. He received his PhD in Information Engineering at the University of Pisa in 2022, working on the development of a robotic biofabrication platform for in situ bioprinting applications. With the aim of investigating the potential and limitations of this promising technology he developed and validated IMAGObot, a 5-axis open-source robotic-arm purposely re-engineered in both hardware and software for in situ bioprinting applications. Considering a standardized operating workflow, four main steps were identified: i) acquisition of the anatomical defect 3D digital model, ii) path planning, iii) path registration in the robot workspace, and iv) in situ bioprinting.

Paola Serena Ginestra is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Brescia, Italy, specializing in technologies and systems for manufacturing. She is the head of the Laboratory of Manufacturing for Biomedical Applications, BioMBS. She earned her PhD in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at Brescia with a dissertation on biomanufacturing technologies for tissue engineering, following a BSc and MSc in Biomedical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano. Her research focuses on additive manufacturing, bioprinting, electrospinning, and finite-element modeling of biomechanical systems. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the European Scientific Association for material FORMing -ESAFORM. 

Dr. Anna Jezierski is a Research Officer at the Department of Translational Biosciences in the Human Health Therapeutics Research Center at the National Research Council of Canada. Her research focus is on leveraging human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to develop more predictive and translational models of the central nervous system (CNS) and the blood brain barrier (BBB) combining stem cells, microfluidic chips and 3D tissue bioprinting technologies. These models are routinely utilized to study the BBB permeability of CNS targeting biotherapeutics, neurotropic viruses and immunotherapies. A parallel research focus is to leverage iPSCs as a renewable and scalable cell source to generate immune cells, namely natural killer cells, engineered to express chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) as novel sources of “off-the-shelf” immunotherapies targeting hematological malignancies and solid tumors.

Lan Li is a principal investigator of Drum Tower Hospital affiliated to Medical School of Nanjing University. He has received the 8 funding, including the National Outstanding Youth Foundation. His research interests are tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, including biomaterials, 3D bioprinting techniques and equipment. He has published > 70 peer reviewed papers, including on Nature , Engineering , Advanced Science and Fundamental Research.

Huixin Liang received the Ph.D. degree from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is currently working with the Division of Sports Medicine and Adult Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital. His current research interests include bionic design, additive manufacturing, and bioceramics.

Wei Long Ng currently works at Singapore Centre for 3D Printing (SC3DP), Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Wei Long does research in 3D bioprinting and his current project is on "Fabrication and Characterization of 3D Bioprinted Cultivated Meat".

João Carlos Silva(JCS) is a Research Assistant(Tenure-track) at the Stem Cell Engineering Research Group(SCERG) from the Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences(iBB), where is the PI of the Biomimetic and Functional Regenerative Biomaterials Lab. JCS received his PhD in Bioengineering – Cell Therapies and Regenerative Medicine (Distinction and Honours) in 2019 from Instituto Superior Técnico(IST) – Universidade de Lisboa and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute(NY-USA). JCS was also awarded a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Postdoctoral Fellowship(2024-2025) to develop innovative bioreactor-based platforms for investigating the key mechanobiology mechanisms involved in osteochondral tissue maintenance and regeneration.

His research group focus mainly on: i) tailoring biomaterials structure and composition to mimic stem cell microenvironments; ii) development of novel biomimetic and bioactive scaffold-based approaches for regenerative medicine and in vitro disease modelling applications with particular focus on bone, periodontal and articular cartilage regeneration; and iii) design and prototyping of bioreactor devices for the fabrication of tissue-engineered constructs under controlled “in vivo-like” biophysical stimulation.

Professor and researcher in Bioengineering at the Scientific and Technological Institute of Brazil University, he obtained his Master’s degree and PhD while working directly in the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Currently, he leads the BioRegenera.Lab research group, which focuses on the development of cutting-edge strategies in 3D bioprinting, including biofabrication technologies and the creation of patient-specific regenerative implants, especially applied to the regeneration of tissues of the musculoskeletal system. Dr. Stocco is also the author of several scientific publications in top-ranked journals, contributing to the advancement of biofabrication and translational tissue engineering.

Zhu Hui, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University. She was selected for the "Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program" by the China Association for Science and Technology. Her main research interests include: biomanufacturing and bioprinting technology; development of hydrogel-based bioinks; smart conductive sensing implants; and in vitro applications of life-mimicking systems, including the integrated construction of complex neural-like systems. She has an H-factor of 20, and published more than 30 SCI papers. She serves as a Youth Editorial Board Member of Journal of Bioprinting, a committee member of the Youth Branch of the ISBF and ISBE, and a guest editor for Bioengineering. Her first-author paper received the “Most Downloaded Paper of 2022” award in Small journal.