February 2025
Andy talks to Newstalks Jonathon McCrea on the Futureproof podcast about our recent work on bioprinting heart tissue
January 2025
Ankita awarded Engineer’s Ireland Biomedical Research Medial at Bioengineering in Ireland (BinI) 2025 conference
CÚRAM PhD Candidate Awarded Engineers Ireland Biomedical Research Medal
January 2025
Vasilis’s paper on ‘In-situ quality monitoring during embedded bioprinting’ accepted for publication in Biofabrication as part of the Journals special issue on Biofabrication in Suspension Media for Tissue Engineering and In Vitro Modelling
November 2024
Ankita’s paper accepted for publication in Advanced Functional Materials
July 2024
Our aiPRINT project in collaboration with Dr Karl Mason’s group has succesfully made it through to the grow phase of the SFI Future Digital Challenge. This 500k award will expand our efforts to develop closed-loop 3d bioprinting technology.
January 2024
Dr Juhi Chakraborty joins the lab as part of morphoPRINT project funded by SFI. Juhi’s project will focus on developing magnetically guided 4D bioprinting technology
October 2023
Dr Vasileios Sergis joins the lab as part of aiPRINT project funded by SFI. Vasileios’s project will focus on developing closed-loop 3D bioprinting technology.
September 2023
Congrats to Ankita on winning one of the Best Student Poster awards at the European Society for Biomaterials meeting in Davos.
August 2023
Orlaith Kennedy and Neha Waghmare join the lab as part of morphoPRINT project funded by the ERC. Orlaith and Neha will be developing hydrogel platforms for introducing shape-morphing behaviours in bioprinted tissues.
July 2023
Dr Daniel Kelly joins the lab as part of aiPRINT project funded by the Science Foundation Ireland Future Digital Challenge. Daniels project will focus on developing closed-loop 3D printing technology using AI and computer vision
May 2023
Laura Ventura joins the lab as part of the morphoPRINT project. Laura’s project will focus on directing stem cell morphogenesis in bioprinted tissues.
March 2023
Ankita presents her work at the TERMIS EU-2023 in Manchester
November 2022
Dr Daly awarded ERC starting grant to creat bioprinted models of heart development
European Research Council awards €636m in grants to emerging science talent across Europe
July 2022
The Lifesaver project kicks off. As part of the European-wide research consortium, our team will focus on designing and manufacturing an organ-on-a-chip platform that mimics key components of placental tissue for emulation of typical prenatal conditions.
June 2022
Dr Daly gives an invited talk in a special symposium on “3D Writing Within Suspension Media for Tissue Engineering and In Vitro Modeling” at TERMIS EU 2022 in Krakow.
April 2022
Sogol Kianersi joins the lab. Sogol will work on developing heart-on-a-chip models using conductive biomaterials. Sogol’s project is in collaboration with Prof Abhay Pandit and Prof Ger O’Connor.
September 2021
Ankita Pramanick joins the lab on a College of Science and Engineering Postgraduate Research Scholarship. Ankita will work on bioprinting cardiac microtissues with biomimetic cell organisations. The project is in collaboration with Prof Abhay Pandit’s lab.