Dr. ir. R. (Riccardo) Levato

Willem C. Schimmelgebouw
Yalelaan 112
Kamer 0
3584 CM Utrecht

Dr. ir. R. (Riccardo) Levato

Associate Professor
Equine sciences
r.levato@uu.nl

Publications

2025

Scholarly publications

Florczak, S., Größbacher, G., Ribezzi, D., Longoni, A., Gueye, M., Grandidier, E., Malda, J., & Levato, R. (2025). Adaptive and context-aware volumetric printing. Nature, 645(8079), 108–114 . [DOI] [Portal]
Revilla, S. A., Cutilli, A., Cambiaso, E., Rockx-Brouwer, D., Frederiks, C. L., Falandt, M., Levato, R., Kranenburg, O., Lindemans, C. A., Coffer, P. J., Peperzak, V., Mocholi, E., & Cuenca, M. (2025). Impact of 3D cell culture hydrogels derived from basement membrane extracts or nanofibrillar cellulose on CAR-T cell activation. iScience, 28(9), Article 113234. [DOI] [Portal]
Lee, S. J., Jang, J., & Levato, R. (2025). Advances in light-based process for cell-based 3D bioprinting applications. Materials Today Bio, 33, Article 102024. [DOI] [Portal]
Palmieri, F., Gueye, M., Vicario Del Rio, L., Bunschuh, S., Chopra, P., Mihăilă, S., Vermonden, T., Levato, R., & Boons, G.-J. (2025). Photo-triggered Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogel for 3D Culture and Cell Recovery. ChemBioChem, 26(22), Article e202500310. Advance online publication. [DOI] [Portal]
Iudin, D., Gerridzen, L. J. J. A., N Bernal, P., Schuurmans, C. C. L., Neumann, M., Nguyen, L., van Steenbergen, M. J., Hak, J., Li, W., Casadidio, C., van Genderen, A. M., Masereeuw, R., Levato, R., Zhang, Y. S., van Ravensteijn, B. G. P., & Vermonden, T. (2025). In-Depth Investigation of Electrostatic Interaction-Based Hydrogel Shrinking for Volumetric Printing and Tissue Engineering Applications. Biomacromolecules, 26(7), 4108-4123. [DOI] [Portal]
Aizarna-Lopetegui, U., Größbacher, G., Herrero-Ruiz, A., Tejo-Otero, A., Henriksen-Lacey, M., Levato, R., & Jimenez de Aberasturi, D. (2025). Hybrid Plasmonic Bioresins and dECM-Based Materials for Volumetric Bioprinting of Vascular-Inspired Architectures. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 17(25), 36982-36991. [DOI] [Portal]
Elkadi, O. A., Abinzano, F., Nippolainen, E., González, O. B., Töyräs, J., Levato, R., Malda, J., & Afara, I. O. (2025). Non-destructive assessment of tissue engineered cartilage maturity using visible and near infrared spectroscopy combined with machine learning. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 286, Article 117587. [DOI] [Portal]
Buchholz, M.-B., Bernal, P. N., Bessler, N., Bonhomme, C., Levato, R., & Rios, A. (2025). Development of a bioreactor and volumetric bioprinting protocol to enable perfused culture of biofabricated human epithelial mammary ducts and endothelial constructs. Biofabrication, 17(3), Article 031001. [DOI] [Portal]
Bernal, P. N., Florczak, S., Inacker, S., Kuang, X., Madrid-Wolff, J., Regehly, M., Hecht, S., Zhang, Y. S., Moser, C., & Levato, R. (2025). The road ahead in materials and technologies for volumetric 3D printing. Nature Reviews Materials, 10(11), 826–841. Article 852. [DOI]
Di Marco, G., Falandt, M., Neumann, M., Viola, M., Sampon, T., Valverde, M. G., van Genderen, A. M., Mihaila, S. M., van Nostrum, C. F., van Ravensteijn, B. G. P., Levato, R., Masereeuw, R., & Vermonden, T. (2025). Tunable Thermoshrinkable Hydrogels for 4D Fabrication of Cell-Seeded Channels. Advanced Functional Materials, 35(35), Article 2502042. [DOI] [Portal]
Ribezzi, D., Català, P., Pignatelli, C., Citro, A., & Levato, R. (2025). Bioprinting and synthetic biology approaches to engineer functional endocrine pancreatic constructs. Trends in Biotechnology, 43(9), 2133-2149. [DOI] [Portal]
Ribezzi, D., Zegwaart, J.-P., Van Gansbeke, T., Tejo-Otero, A., Florczak, S., Aerts, J., Delrot, P., Hierholzer, A., Fussenegger, M., Malda, J., Olijve, J., & Levato, R. (2025). Multi-material Volumetric Bioprinting and Plug-and-play Suspension Bath Biofabrication via Bioresin Molecular Weight Tuning and via Multiwavelength Alignment Optics. Advanced Materials, 37(13), Article 2409355. [DOI] [Portal]
Dudaryeva, O. Y., Cousin, L., Krajnovic, L., Gröbli, G., Sapkota, V., Ritter, L., Deshmukh, D., Cui, Y., Style, R. W., Levato, R., Labouesse, C., & Tibbitt, M. W. (2025). Tunable Bicontinuous Macroporous Cell Culture Scaffolds via Kinetically Controlled Phase Separation. Advanced Materials, 37(7), Article 2410452. [DOI] [Portal]

2024

Scholarly publications

Florczak, S., Ribezzi, D., Falandt, M., Bernal, P., Groessbacher, G., Vermonden, T., Malda, J., & Levato, R. (2024). Multi-material integration in light-based Volumetric Bioprinting: pathways to enhanced precision and complexity in scaffold fabrication. In G. von Freymann, E. Blasco, & D. Chanda (Eds.), Advanced Fabrication Technologies for Micro/Nano Optics and Photonics XVII Article 128980G (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 12898). SPIE. [DOI]
Viola, M., Valverde, M. G., Bernal, P. N., van Trijp, J. P., Hak, J., Marco, G. D., Neumann, M., Schuurmans, C. C. L., van Nostrum, C. F., Masereeuw, R., Mihăilă, S. M., Malda, J., Levato, R., & Vermonden, T. (2024). Thermal Shrinking of Biopolymeric Hydrogels for High Resolution 3D Printing of Kidney Tubules. Advanced Functional Materials, 34(46), Article 2406098. [DOI] [Portal]
Palmieri, F., Gueye, M., Rio, L. V. D., Bunschuh, S., Chopra, P., Mihăilă, S., Vermonden, T., Levato, R., & Boons, G.-J. (2024). A Light Sensitive Hyaluronic Acid-based Hydrogel for 3D Culturing, Differentiation, and Harvesting of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells. bioRxiv. [DOI] [Portal]
Buchholz, M. B., Scheerman, D. I., Levato, R., Wehrens, E. J., & Rios, A. C. (2024). Human breast tissue engineering in health and disease. EMBO Molecular Medicine, 16(10), 2299-2321. [DOI] [Portal]
Levato, R., Dudaryeva, O., Garciamendez-Mijares, C. E., Kirkpatrick, B. E., Rizzo, R., Schimelman, J., Anseth, K. S., Chen, S., Zenobi-Wong, M., & Zhang, Y. S. (2024). Correction to: Light-based vat-polymerization bioprinting (Nature Reviews Methods Primers, (2023), 3, 1, (47), 10.1038/s43586-023-00231-0). Nature Reviews Methods Primers, 4(1), Article 44. [DOI] [Portal]
Meerbothe, T. G., Florczak, S., van den Berg, C. A. T., Levato, R., & Mandija, S. (2024). A reusable 3D printed brain-like phantom for benchmarking electrical properties tomography reconstructions. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 92(5), 2271-2279. [DOI] [Portal]
Bosmans, C., Ginés Rodriguez, N., Karperien, M., Malda, J., Moreira Teixeira, L., Levato, R., & Leijten, J. (2024). Towards single-cell bioprinting: micropatterning tools for organ-on-chip development. Trends in Biotechnology, 42(6), 739-759. [DOI] [Portal]
Elkadi, O. A., Abinzano, F., Nippolainen, E., González, O. B., Levato, R., Malda, J., & Afara, I. O. (2024). Non-neotissue constituents as underestimated confounders in the assessment of tissue engineered constructs by near-infrared spectroscopy. Materials Today Bio, 24, 1-10. Article 100879. [DOI] [Repository]
de Ruijter, M., Diloksumpan, P., Dokter, I., Brommer, H., Smit, I. H., Levato, R., van Weeren, P. R., Castilho, M., & Malda, J. (2024). Orthotopic equine study confirms the pivotal importance of structural reinforcement over the pre-culture of cartilage implants. Bioengineering and Translational Medicine, 9(1), Article e10614. [DOI] [Repository]
Mancini, I. A. D., Levato, R., Ksiezarczyk, M. M., Castilho, M. D., Chen, M., van Rijen, M. H. P., IJsseldijk, L. L., Kik, M., van Weeren, R., & Malda, J. (2024). Microstructural differences in the osteochondral unit of terrestrial and aquatic mammals. eLife, 12, Article e80936. [DOI] [Repository]

2023

Scholarly publications

Tognato, R., Parolini, R., Jahangir, S., Ma, J., Florczak, S., Richards, R. G., Levato, R., Alini, M., & Serra, T. (2023). Sound-based assembly of three-dimensional cellularized and acellularized constructs. Materials Today Bio, 22, Article 100775. [DOI] [Portal]
Madrid-Wolff, J., Toombs, J., Rizzo, R., Bernal, P. N., Porcincula, D., Walton, R., Wang, B., Kotz-Helmer, F., Yang, Y., Kaplan, D., Zhang, Y. S., Zenobi-Wong, M., McLeod, R. R., Rapp, B., Schwartz, J., Shusteff, M., Talyor, H., Levato, R., & Moser, C. (2023). A review of materials used in tomographic volumetric additive manufacturing. MRS Communications, 13(5), 764-785. [DOI] [Portal]
Schwab, A., Wesdorp, M. A., Xu, J., Abinzano, F., Loebel, C., Falandt, M., Levato, R., Eglin, D., Narcisi, R., Stoddart, M. J., Malda, J., Burdick, J. A., D'Este, M., & van Osch, G. J. V. M. (2023). Modulating design parameters to drive cell invasion into hydrogels for osteochondral tissue formation. Journal of Orthopaedic Translation, 41, 42-53. [DOI] [Repository]
Rikkers, M., Nguyen, H. C., Golafshan, N., de Ruijter, M., Levato, R., Vonk, L. A., van Egmond, N., Castilho, M., Custers, R. J. H., & Malda, J. (2023). A gap-filling, regenerative implant for open-wedge osteotomy. Journal of Cartilage and Joint Preservation, 3(4), 1-10. Article 100117. [DOI] [Repository]
Levato, R., Dudaryeva, O., Garciamendez-Mijares, C. E., Kirkpatrick, B. E., Rizzo, R., Schimelman, J., Anseth, K. S., Chen, S., Zenobi-Wong, M., & Zhang, Y. S. (2023). Light-based vat-polymerization bioprinting. Nature Reviews Methods Primers, 3(1), Article 47. [DOI] [Repository]
Falandt, M., Bernal, P. N., Dudaryeva, O., Florczak, S., Größbacher, G., Schweiger, M., Longoni, A., Greant, C., Assunção, M., Nijssen, O., van Vlierberghe, S., Malda, J., Vermonden, T., & Levato, R. (2023). Spatial-Selective Volumetric 4D Printing and Single-Photon Grafting of Biomolecules within Centimeter-Scale Hydrogels via Tomographic Manufacturing. Advanced Materials Technologies, 8(15), Article 2300026. [DOI] [Repository]
Abbadessa, A., Nuñez Bernal, P., Buttitta, G., Ronca, A., D'Amora, U., Zihlmann, C., Stiefel, N., Ambrosio, L., Malda, J., Levato, R., Crecente-Campo, J., & Alonso, M. J. (2023). Biofunctionalization of 3D printed collagen with bevacizumab-loaded microparticles targeting pathological angiogenesis. Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society, 360, 747-758. [DOI] [Repository]
Galarraga, J. H., Zlotnick, H. M., Locke, R. C., Gupta, S., Fogarty, N. L., Masada, K. M., Stoeckl, B. D., Laforest, L., Castilho, M., Malda, J., Levato, R., Carey, J. L., Mauck, R. L., & Burdick, J. A. (2023). Evaluation of surgical fixation methods for the implantation of melt electrowriting-reinforced hyaluronic acid hydrogel composites in porcine cartilage defects. International Journal of Bioprinting, 9(5), 493-509. Article 775. [DOI] [Repository]
Van Ombergen, A., Chalupa-Gantner, F., Chansoria, P., Colosimo, B. M., Costantini, M., Domingos, M., Dufour, A., De Maria, C., Groll, J., Jungst, T., Levato, R., Malda, J., Margarita, A., Marquette, C., Ovsianikov, A., Petiot, E., Read, S., Surdo, L., Swieszkowski, W., ... Gelinsky, M. (2023). 3D Bioprinting in Microgravity: Opportunities, Challenges, and Possible Applications in Space. Advanced healthcare materials, 12(23), Article 2300443. [DOI] [Repository]
Ribezzi, D., Gueye, M., Florczak, S., Dusi, F., de Vos, D., Manente, F., Hierholzer, A., Fussenegger, M., Caiazzo, M., Blunk, T., Malda, J., & Levato, R. (2023). Shaping Synthetic Multicellular and Complex Multimaterial Tissues via Embedded Extrusion-Volumetric Printing of Microgels. Advanced Materials, 35(36), Article 2301673. [DOI] [Repository]
Größbacher, G., Bartolf-Kopp, M., Gergely, C., Bernal, P. N., Florczak, S., de Ruijter, M., Rodriguez, N. G., Groll, J., Malda, J., Jüngst, T., & Levato, R. (2023). Volumetric Printing across Melt Electrowritten Scaffolds Fabricates Multi-Material Living Constructs with Tunable Architecture and Mechanics. Advanced Materials, 35(32), 1-18. Article 2300756. [DOI] [Repository]
Zandrini, T., Florczak, S., Levato, R., & Ovsianikov, A. (2023). Breaking the resolution limits of 3D bioprinting: future opportunities and present challenges. Trends in Biotechnology, 41(5), 604-614. [DOI] [Repository]
Soliman, B. G., Longoni, A., Wang, M., Li, W., Bernal, P. N., Cianciosi, A., Lindberg, G. C. J., Malda, J., Groll, J., Jungst, T., Levato, R., Rnjak-Kovacina, J., Woodfield, T. B. F., Zhang, Y. S., & Lim, K. S. (2023). Programming Delayed Dissolution Into Sacrificial Bioinks For Dynamic Temporal Control of Architecture within 3D-Bioprinted Constructs. Advanced Functional Materials, 33(8), Article 2210521. [DOI] [Repository]
Levato, R., & Lim, K. S. (2023). Harnessing light in biofabrication. Biofabrication, 15(2), 1-3. Article 020401. [DOI] [Repository]
de Silva, L., Bernal, P. N., Rosenberg, A., Malda, J., Levato, R., & Gawlitta, D. (2023). Biofabricating the vascular tree in engineered bone tissue. Acta Biomaterialia, 156, 250-268. [DOI] [Repository]

2022

Scholarly publications

Bernal, P. N., Delrot, P., Loterie, D., Li, Y., Malda, J., Moser, C., & Levato, R. (2022). HIGH-SPEED VOLUMETRIC BIOPRINTING APPROACH FOR BIOFABRICATION OF COMPLEX LIVING TISSUE STRUCTURES. Tissue Engineering - Part A., 28(S1), S150-S150. Article 539. [DOI]
Abinzano, F., Lim, K., Bernal, P. N., Roca, P. A., Sanchez, A. A., Otto, I., Matsusaki, M., Woodfield, T., Malda, J., & Levato, R. (2022). DUAL-FUNCTIONALIZED VISIBLE-LIGHT RESPONSIVE GELATIN BIOINK AS CARTILAGE BINDING GLUE AND MATRIX FOR 3D CHONDRAL REGENERATION. Tissue Engineering - Part A., 28(S1), S222-S223. Article 790. [DOI]
Otto, I. A., Bernal, P. N., Rikkers, M., Rijen, M. H. P. V., Mensinga, A., Kon, M., Breugem, C. C., Levato, R., & Malda, J. (2022). Human adult, pediatric and microtia auricular cartilage harbor fibronectin-adhering progenitor cells with regenerative ear reconstruction potential. iScience, 25(9), 1-20. Article 104979. [DOI] [Repository]
Mancini, I. A. D., Levato, R., Castilho, M., Chen, M., Rijen, M. H. P. V., IJsseldijk, L. L., Kik, M., Weeren, P. R. V., & Malda, J. (2022). Nature’s design of the osteochondral unit: microstructural differences between terrestrial and aquatic mammals. [DOI]
Terpstra, M. L., Li, J., Mensinga, A., de Ruijter, M., van Rijen, M. H. P., Androulidakis, C., Galiotis, C., Papantoniou, I., Matsusaki, M., Malda, J., & Levato, R. (2022). Bioink with cartilage-derived extracellular matrix microfibers enables spatial control of vascular capillary formation in bioprinted constructs. Biofabrication, 14(3), 1-20. Article 034104. [DOI] [Repository]
Bernal, P. N., Bouwmeester, M., Madrid-Wolff, J., Falandt, M., Florczak, S., Rodriguez, N. G., Li, Y., Größbacher, G., Samsom, R.-A., van Wolferen, M., van der Laan, L., Delrot, P., Loterie, D., Malda, J., Moser, C., Spee, B., & Levato, R. (2022). Volumetric Bioprinting of Organoids and Optically Tuned Hydrogels to Build Liver-Like Metabolic Biofactories. Advanced Materials, 34(15), 1-16. Article 2110054. [DOI] [Repository]
Rikkers, M., Korpershoek, J. V., Levato, R., Malda, J., & Vonk, L. A. (2022). The clinical potential of articular cartilage-derived progenitor cells: a systematic review. npj Regenerative Medicine, 7(1), 1-20. Article 2. [DOI] [Repository]
Longoni, A., Utomo, L., Robinson, A., Levato, R., Rosenberg, A. J. W. P., & Gawlitta, D. (2022). Acceleration of Bone Regeneration Induced by a Soft-Callus Mimetic Material. Advanced Science, 9(6), 1-14. Article 2103284. [DOI] [Repository]
Galarraga, J. H., Locke, R. C., Witherel, C. E., Stoeckl, B. D., Castilho, M., Mauck, R. L., Malda, J., Levato, R., & Burdick, J. A. (2022). Fabrication of MSC-laden composites of hyaluronic acid hydrogels reinforced with MEW scaffolds for cartilage repair. Biofabrication, 14(1), 1-16. Article 014106. [DOI] [Repository]

2021

Scholarly publications

Diloksumpan, P., Abinzano, F., Ruijter, M. D., Mensinga, A., Plomp, S., Khan, I., Brommer, H., Smit, I., Castilho, M. D., Weeren, P. R. V., Malda, J., & Levato, R. (2021). The Complexity of Joint Regeneration: How an Advanced Implant could Fail by Its In Vivo Proven Bone Component. Journal of Trial and Error, 2(1), 1-20. [DOI] [Portal]
Rikkers, M., Dijkstra, K., Terhaard, B. F., Admiraal, J., Levato, R., Malda, J., & Vonk, L. A. (2021). Response. Cartilage, 13(1_suppl), 1824S-1826S. [DOI] [Repository]
Abinzano, F., Diloksumpan, P., Ruijter, M. D., Mensinga, A., Plomp, S., Khan, I. M., Brommer, H., Smit, I., Castilho, M., van Weeren, R., Malda, J., & Levato, R. (2021). Building on established technology is no guarantee for success: challenges with the in vivo evaluation of an osteochondral implant based on a proven bone component. Abstract from Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials. https://eventclass.org/contxt_esb2021/scientific/online-program/session?s=68
Rikkers, M., Korpershoek, J. V., Levato, R., Malda, J., & Vonk, L. A. (2021). Progenitor Cells in Healthy and Osteoarthritic Human Cartilage Have Extensive Culture Expansion Capacity while Retaining Chondrogenic Properties. Cartilage, 13(2_suppl), 129S-142S. [DOI] [Repository]
Levato, R., Lim, K. S., Li, W., Asua, A. U., Peña, L. B., Wang, M., Falandt, M., Bernal, P. N., Gawlitta, D., Zhang, Y. S., Woodfield, T. B. F., & Malda, J. (2021). High-resolution lithographic biofabrication of hydrogels with complex microchannels from low-temperature-soluble gelatin bioresins. Materials Today Bio, 12, 1-13. Article 100162. [DOI] [Repository]
Bouwmeester, M. C., Bernal, P. N., Oosterhoff, L. A., van Wolferen, M., Lehmann, V., Vermaas, M., Buchholz, M.-B., Peiffer, Q., Malda, J., van der Laan, L. J. W., Kramer, N. I., Schneeberger, K., Levato, R., & Spee, B. (2021). Bioprinting of Human Liver-derived Epithelial Organoids for Toxicity Studies. Macromolecular Bioscience, 21(12), 1-10. Article 2100327. [DOI] [Repository]
Otto, I. A., Capendale, P. E., Garcia, J. P., de Ruijter, M., van Doremalen, R. F. M., Castilho, M., Lawson, T., Grinstaff, M. W., Breugem, C. C., Kon, M., Levato, R., & Malda, J. (2021). Biofabrication of a shape-stable auricular structure for the reconstruction of ear deformities. Materials Today Bio, 9, 1-11. Article 100094. [DOI] [Repository]
Castilho, M., Levato, R., Bernal, P. N., de Ruijter, M., Sheng, C. Y., van Duijn, J., Piluso, S., Ito, K., & Malda, J. (2021). Hydrogel-Based Bioinks for Cell Electrowriting of Well-Organized Living Structures with Micrometer-Scale Resolution. Biomacromolecules, 22(2), 855-866. [DOI] [Repository]
Rikkers, M., Dijkstra, K., Terhaard, B. F., Admiraal, J., Levato, R., Malda, J., & Vonk, L. A. (2021). Platelet-Rich Plasma Does Not Inhibit Inflammation or Promote Regeneration in Human Osteoarthritic ChondrocytesIn VitroDespite Increased Proliferation. Cartilage, 13(2_SUPPL), 991S-1003S. [DOI] [Repository]

2020

Scholarly publications

Rikkers, M., Levato, R., Malda, J., & Vonk, L. (2020). Platelet Lysate is Beneficial for Chondrocyte Expansion but Ineffective in 3d Culture. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 28, S525-S526.
Rikkers, M., Korpershoek, J. V., van der Leij, S., Levato, R., Malda, J., & Vonk, L. A. (2020). Progenitor Cells From Healthy and Osteoarthritic Human Cartilage Show Potential for One-stage Repair Treatment. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 28, S516-S517.
Longoni, A., Pennings, I., Cuenca Lopera, M., van Rijen, M. H. P., Peperzak, V., Rosenberg, A. J. W. P., Levato, R., & Gawlitta, D. (2020). Endochondral Bone Regeneration by Non-autologous Mesenchymal Stem Cells. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 8, Article 651. [DOI] [Portal]
Augurio, A., Cortelletti, P., Tognato, R., Rios, A., Levato, R., Malda, J., Alini, M., Eglin, D., Giancane, G., Speghini, A., & Serra, T. (2020). A Multifunctional Nanocomposite Hydrogel for Endoscopic Tracking and Manipulation. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2(3), Article 1900105. [DOI] [Repository]
Liu, H., Kitano, S., Irie, S., Levato, R., & Matsusaki, M. (2020). Collagen Microfibers Induce Blood Capillary Orientation and Open Vascular Lumen. Advanced Biosystems, 4(5), Article 2000038. [DOI] [Repository]
Li, J., Sasaki, N., Itaka, K., Terpstra, M. L., Levato, R., & Matsusaki, M. (2020). Regulation of Chondrocyte Differentiation by Changing Intercellular Distances Using Type II Collagen Microfibers. ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, 6, 5711−5719. Article 10. [DOI] [Repository]
Schmidt, S., Abinzano, F., Mensinga, A., Teßmar, J., Groll, J., Malda, J., Levato, R., & Blunk, T. (2020). Differential production of cartilage ECM in 3D agarose constructs by equine articular cartilage progenitor cells and mesenchymal stromal cells. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 21(19), 1-19. Article 7071. [DOI] [Repository]
Groen, W. M. G. A. C., Utomo, L., Castilho, M., Gawlitta, D., Malda, J., van Weeren, P. R., Levato, R., & Korthagen, N. M. (2020). Impact of endotoxins in gelatine hydrogels on chondrogenic differentiation and inflammatory cytokine secretion in vitro. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 21(22), 1-17. Article 8571. [DOI] [Repository]
Cui, X., Soliman, B. G., Alcala-Orozco, C. R., Li, J., Vis, M. A. M., Santos, M., Wise, S. G., Levato, R., Malda, J., Woodfield, T. B. F., Rnjak-Kovacina, J., & Lim, K. S. (2020). Correction to: Rapid Photocrosslinking of Silk Hydrogels with High Cell Density and Enhanced Shape Fidelity (Adv. Healthcare Mater, (2020), 9, (1901667), 10.1002/adhm.201901667). Advanced healthcare materials, 9(22), 1. Article 2001801. [DOI] [Repository]
Schneeberger, K., Bouwmeester, M., Levato, R., Kramer, N., Malda, J., & Spee, B. (2020). BIOFABRICATION OF LIVER CONSTRUCTS FOR DRUG TOXICITY STUDIES. Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, 35(1), S8-S8. [DOI]
Rikkers, M., Levato, R., Malda, J., & Vonk, L. A. (2020). Importance of Timing of Platelet Lysate-Supplementation in Expanding or Redifferentiating Human Chondrocytes for Chondrogenesis. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 8, Article 804. [DOI] [Repository]
Schwab, A., Levato, R., D'Este, M., Piluso, S., Eglin, D., & Malda, J. (2020). Printability and Shape Fidelity of Bioinks in 3D Bioprinting. Chemical Reviews, 120(19), 11028-11055. [DOI] [Repository]
Mancini, I. A. D., Schmidt, S., Brommer, H., Pouran, B., Schäfer, S., Tessmar, J., Mensinga, A., van Rijen, M. H. P., Groll, J., Blunk, T., Levato, R., Malda, J., & van Weeren, P. R. (2020). A composite hydrogel-3D printed thermoplast osteochondral anchor as an example for a zonal approach to cartilage repair: in vivo performance in a long-term equine model. Biofabrication, 12, Article 035028. [DOI] [Repository]
Quiros, N., Abinzano, F., Plomp, S., Giessen, E., Levato, R., Tryfonidou, M., & Moller, N. T. (2020). Combination of bone morphogenetic protein 9 and transforming growth factor BETA-1 improves cartilaginous matrix formation by equine chondrocytes in three-dimensional culture. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 28(Supplement 1), Article S496. [DOI] [Repository]
Qiu, B., Bessler, N., Figler, K., Buchholz, M. B., Rios, A. C., Malda, J., Levato, R., & Caiazzo, M. (2020). Bioprinting Neural Systems to Model Central Nervous System Diseases. Advanced Functional Materials, 30(44), Article 1910250. [DOI] [Repository]
Groen, W. M., Levato, R., Malda, J., van Weeren, P. R., & Korthagen, N. M. (2020). In vitro response of mesenchymal stromal cells and peripheral blood mononuclear cells to high- and low-endotoxin gelatine methacryloyl hydrogels. S523-S524. [DOI]
Levato, R., Jungst, T., Scheuring, R. G., Blunk, T., Groll, J., & Malda, J. (2020). From Shape to Function: The Next Step in Bioprinting. Advanced Materials, 32(12), Article 1906423. [DOI] [Repository]
Diloksumpan, P., Bolaños, R. V., Cokelaere, S., Pouran, B., de Grauw, J., van Rijen, M., van Weeren, R., Levato, R., & Malda, J. (2020). Orthotopic Bone Regeneration within 3D Printed Bioceramic Scaffolds with Region-Dependent Porosity Gradients in an Equine Model. Advanced healthcare materials, 9(10), 1-11. Article e1901807. [DOI] [Repository]
Lim, K. S., Abinzano, F., Bernal, P. N., Albillos Sanchez, A., Atienza-Roca, P., Otto, I. A., Peiffer, Q. C., Matsusaki, M., Woodfield, T. B. F., Malda, J., & Levato, R. (2020). One-Step Photoactivation of a Dual-Functionalized Bioink as Cell Carrier and Cartilage-Binding Glue for Chondral Regeneration. Advanced healthcare materials, 9(15), Article 1901792. [DOI] [Repository]
Diloksumpan, P., de Ruijter, M., Castilho, M., Gbureck, U., Vermonden, T., van Weeren, P. R., Malda, J., & Levato, R. (2020). Combining multi-scale 3D printing technologies to engineer reinforced hydrogel-ceramic interfaces. Biofabrication, 12(2), Article 025014. [DOI] [Repository]
Cui, X., Soliman, B. G., Alcala-Orozco, C. R., Li, J., Vis, M. A. M., Santos, M., Wise, S. G., Levato, R., Malda, J., Woodfield, T. B. F., Rnjak-Kovacina, J., & Lim, K. S. (2020). Rapid Photocrosslinking of Silk Hydrogels with High Cell Density and Enhanced Shape Fidelity. Advanced healthcare materials, 9(4), Article e1901667. [DOI] [Repository]

2019

Scholarly publications

Van Kampen, K. A., Scheuring, R. G., Terpstra, M. L., Levato, R., Groll, J., Malda, J., Mota, C., & Moroni, L. (2019). Biofabrication: From additive manufacturing to bioprinting. In Encyclopedia of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (Vol. 1-3, pp. 41-55). Elsevier. [DOI]
Tognato, R., Armiento, A. R., Bonfrate, V., Levato, R., Malda, J., Alini, M., Eglin, D., Giancane, G., & Serra, T. (2019). A Stimuli-Responsive Nanocomposite for 3D Anisotropic Cell-Guidance and Magnetic Soft Robotics. Advanced Functional Materials, 29(9). [DOI] [Repository]
PN, B., Delrot, P., Loterie, D., Li, Y., Malda, J., Moser, C., & Levato, R. (2019). Volumetric Bioprinting of Complex Living-Tissue Constructs within Seconds. Advanced Materials, 31(42), Article 1904209. [DOI] [Repository]
Quiros, N., Abinzano, F., Plomp, S. G. M., Giessen, E., Levato, R., Tryfonidou, M. A., & te Moller, N. C. R. (2019). Synergy around equine chondrocyte pellets: Improving cartilaginous matrix formation in three-dimensional culture by a combination of BMP9 and TGFb1. Poster session presented at Veterinary Science Day , Bunnik, Netherlands.

2017

Scholarly publications

Webb, W. R., Levato, R., van Weeren, P. R., Malda, J., & Khan, I. M. (2017). The potential use of microcarriers as a vehicle to deliver and differentiate chondroprogenitors. International Journal of Experimental Pathology, 98(1), A20-A21.
Punet, X., Levato, R., Bataille, I., Letourneur, D., Engel, E., & Mateos-Timoneda, M. A. (2017). Polylactic acid organogel as versatile scaffolding technique. Polymer, 113, 81-91. [DOI]
Echalier, C., Levato, R., Mateos-Timoneda, M. A., Castaño, O., Déjean, S., Garric, X., Pinese, C., Noël, D., Engel, E., Martinez, J., Mehdi, A., & Subra, G. (2017). Modular bioink for 3D printing of biocompatible hydrogels: sol-gel polymerization of hybrid peptides and polymers. RSC Advances, 7(20), 12231-12235. [DOI]
Guduric, V., Metz, C., Siadous, R., Bareille, R., Levato, R., Engel, E., Fricain, J. C., Devillard, R., Luzanin, O., & Catros, S. (2017). Layer-by-layer bioassembly of cellularized polylactic acid porous membranes for bone tissue engineering. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, 28(5), Article 78. [DOI]
Woodfield, T., Lim, K., Morouço, P., Levato, R., Malda, J., & Melchels, F. (2017). 5.14 Biofabrication in tissue engineering. In P. Ducheyne (Ed.), Comprehensive Biomaterials II (pp. 236-266). Elsevier. [DOI]

2016

Scholarly publications

Echalier, C., Pinese, C., Bethry, A., Levato, R., Van den Berghe, H., Mateos-Timoneda, M. A., Jumas-Bilak, E., Engel, E., Garric, X., Martinez, J., Mehdi, A., & Subra, G. (2016). Synthesis of Hybrid Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications. Journal of Peptide Science, 22, S78-S80.

2015

Scholarly publications

Levato, R., Planell, J. A., Mateos-Timoneda, M. A., & Engel, E. (2015). Role of ECM/peptide coatings on SDF-1α triggered mesenchymal stromal cell migration from microcarriers for cell therapy. Acta Biomaterialia, 18, 59-67. [DOI]
Baelo, A., Levato, R., Julián, E., Crespo, A., Astola, J., Gavaldà, J., Engel, E., Mateos-Timoneda, M. A., & Torrents, E. (2015). Disassembling bacterial extracellular matrix with DNase-coated nanoparticles to enhance antibiotic delivery in biofilm infections. Journal of Controlled Release, 209, 150-158. [DOI]
Mateos-Timoneda, M. A., Levato, R., Punet, X., Cano, I., Castano, O., & Engel, E. (2015). Biofunctionalization of polymeric surfaces. In 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2015 (pp. 1745-1748). Article 7318715 (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS; Vol. 2015-November). IEEE. [DOI]

2013

Scholarly publications

Salerno, A., Levato, R., Mateos-Timoneda, M. A., Engel, E., Netti, P. A., & Planell, J. A. (2013). Modular polylactic acid microparticle-based scaffolds prepared via microfluidic emulsion/solvent displacement process: Fabrication, characterization, and in vitro mesenchymal stem cells interaction study. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A, 101A(3), 720-732. [DOI]

2012

Scholarly publications

Levato, R., Engel, E., Mateos-Timoneda, M. A., & Planell, J. A. (2012). Influence of bioadhesive coatings on cells migration from polylactide microcarriers for cell therapy. Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 6, 270-270.
Levato, R., Mateos-Timoneda, M. A., & Planell, J. A. (2012). Preparation of Biodegradable Polylactide Microparticles via a Biocompatible Procedure. Macromolecular Bioscience, 12(4), 557-566. [DOI]

2011

Scholarly publications

Salerno, A., Levato, R., Mateos-Timoneda, M. A., Engel, E., Netti, P. A., & Planell, J. A. (2011). Design and fabrication of porous scaffolds via microfluidic and bottom-up assembly integrated processes. Paper presented at 24th European Conference on Biomaterials, EBS 2011, Dublin, Ireland.
Levato, R., Mateos-Timoneda, M. A., & Planell, J. A. (2011). Novel preparation of polylactic acid microparticles for cell and drug delivery using a green solvent. Paper presented at 24th European Conference on Biomaterials, EBS 2011, Dublin, Ireland.
Alves, N. M., Fernandes, L. S., Levato, R., & Mano, J. F. (2011). Preparation and characterization of new biodegradable films made from Poly(L-Lactic Acid) and chitosan blends using a common solvent. Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part B: Physics, 50(6), 1121-1129. [DOI]