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