The International Society for Biofabrication offers several virtual learning opportunities including webinars and conference endorsements.
Webinar Series
2026
Dr. Khoon Lim, University of Sydney, Australia
Dr. Rita Sobreiro-Almeida, CICECO, Portugal
Nature meets bioprinting: engineering with natural polymers
Dr. Max Yavitt, University of Otago, New Zealand
Advancing bioassembly strategies in cartilage tissue engineering applications
Dr. Jessica Wheeler, IOP Biofabrication Workshop
Peer review excellence – building confidence and skills in peer review
Dr. Jessica Wheeler & Kate Arfons, IOP Biofabrication Workshop
How to get published – choosing the right journal, writing your paper, peer review, publishing ethics and more
2025
Dr. Yongcong Fang, Tsinghua University, China
On-demand fabrication and functional regulation of complex cardiac models
Dr. Bram Soliman, University of New South Wales, Australia
Structure-microenvironment-function relationships at the breast cancer interface
2024
Dr. Wei Sun, Tsinghua University, China
Advances on biofabrication
Dr. Grissel Trujillo de Santiago, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Using deterministic chaos for the facile biofabrication of multimaterial and microarchitected tissues: chaotic bioprinting
Dr. Ali Doryab, University of Cambridge, UK
A mini lung (-on-chip) model with an inline monitoring of cell stiffness/compliance
2023
Dr. Liqun Ning, Cleveland State University, USA
Biomanufacturing the next generation of tissue analogues for biomedical applications
Dr. Luiz Bertassoni, Oregon Health & Science University, USA
Biofabrication of tissues with nanoscale precision, single-cell resolution and geometric control
2022
Dr. David Kaplan, Tufts University, USA
Biofabrication with silk proteins
Dr. Joos Malda, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
Towards the biofabrication of functional tissues
2021
Dr. Sang Jin Lee, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, USA
3D bioprinting strategies for building body parts
Dr. Yan Yan Shery Huang, University of Cambridge, UK
Biofabrication: from 3D fiber printing to “MOriPF-ing” life-size organoid tubes
Dr. Koichi Nakayama, Saga University, Japan
History of the Kenzan method: from bench to bedside
Dr. Gordon Wallace, University of Wollongong, Australia
3D Bioprinting – The barriers to translation
Dr. Laura De Laporte, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Synthetic molecular and colloidal building blocks to fabricate 3D structured bioconstructs bottom-up
Dr. Jason Burdick, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Designing and implementing shear-thinning hydrogels in biofabrication
Dr. Aleksandr Ovsianikov, TU Wien, Austria
From laser-based 3D printing to high-definition bioprinting
2020
Dr. Tim Woodfield, University of Otago, New Zealand
Designing bioink and bioassembly platforms for multiple biofabrication technologies
Dr. Sarah Heilshorn, Stanford University, USA
Designing bespoke inks
Dr. Jürgen Groll, University of Würzburg, Germany
Rational design of 3D printed scaffolds to modulate the reaction of primary human immune cells
Dr. Shoji Takeuchi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Biofabrication for biohybrid systems
Dr. James Yoo, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, USA
Clinical translation in biofabrication
Dr. Marcy Zenobi-Wong, ETH Zurich
Spanning the range of biofabrication: From extrusion bioprinting to two-photon patterning
Dr. Monica Laronda, Northwestern University, The Netherlands
Building a healthy organ using tissue-specific microenvironments: perspectives from a bioprosthetic ovary
Dr. Riccardo Levato, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Volumetric tissue constructs with light- and extrusion-based bioprinting technologies
Dr. Jinah Jang, POSTECH, South Korea
Decellularized ECM as a bioink for engineering human tissues
Dr. Y. Shrike Zhang, Harvard Medical School, USA
Formulating and processing bioinks for tissue bioprinting