The demand for engineered skin tissues has surged for both in vitro and in vivo applications, and one of the key points to succeed is to choose an appropriate scaffold material. In this scenario, B-Brighter researchers at IBEC has just published a work describing a new bioink designed for engineering human skin constructs using norbornene-pullulan-based hydrogels.

Inés Roucou, a 16-year-old student, could benefit from a 2-week stay at the Laboratory of Biomimetic Systems for Cell Engineering at IBEC in Barcelona. She learned about bioengineering and topics related to B-BRIGHTER project, guided by the researchers Núria and Marcel.

The Würzburg Initiative 3R celebrated its first International Conference to provide a broad communication platform to enable exchange about “3R” among researchers from the diverse sectors related with animal experimentation. It represented an effort to improve the welfare of animals in research, and Brigitte Angres and Louise Breideband were there to talk about the 3D bioprinting technology from B-BRIGHTER.

B-BRIGHTER project was present at the third edition of the EMBL-IBEC conference in Barcelona through the participation of Levin Hafa and Louise Breideband from GUF. This event, organized by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), has it focus on emerging and advanced therapies.

In the frame of IMAB, an outreach project developed at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) in Barcelona, Marcel Sorribas brought B-BRIGHTER project closer to over-65s.

The 18M project meeting was held in Barcelona on 11 and 12 April, and researchers took the occasion to visit the premises of the Biomimetic Systems for Cell Engineering led by Elena Martínez at IBEC.

Students at the Secondary School Angeleta Ferrer in Barcelona had the occasion to know the B-BRIGHTER project and learn about 3D bioprinting and in vitro models.

The 6^th edition of the EIC T2M – Innovation Discovery Training took place last week and Louise Breideband from GUF took the opportunity to improve her entrepreneurship skills and to learn from a science entrepreneur.