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Posted on 14/03/201604/05/2018 Posted in Contact

For a Bachelor and Master Thesis please contact the project members listed below.

WP1

Andreia Fernandes
Sarah Motta
Anne-Sophie Mertgen

WP2

Oddný Björgvinsdóttir
Lukas Weidenbacher

WP3

Vita Marina

WP4

Christian Loosli
Mathias Rebholz

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Zurich Heart

The Hybrid Membrane project is part of the Zurich Heart project under the umbrella of "University Medicine Zurich / Hochschulmedizin Zürich".

This project is supported by the "Stiftung PROPTER HOMINES – Vaduz / Fürstentum Liechtenstein", the "Schwyzer-Winiker Stiftung" and the ETH Zurich Foundation.

News

03/05/2018
Luminal surface of pulsatile VAD covered with endothelial cells successfully tested in vivo. The reconstituted tissue was fully retained upon pump actuation in vivo and no signs of luminal thrombosis were detected in the end-point analysis.
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Conference contributions
03/05/2018

Nanoengineering for Mechnobiology 2018, Camogli, Italy (25-28 March 2018): "Adaptive Nesting of Endothelial Cells in Honeycomb-Structured Biomedical Metasurfaces" This was a selected oral presentation that was performed by Costanza Giampietro
 
New publications
03/05/2018

Bernardi L, Mazza E, Ehret AE. The effect of clamping conditions on tearing energy estimation for highly stretchable materials. Eng Fract Mech. 2017;188:300–8. DOI
Bernardi L, Hopf R, Ferrari A, Ehret AE, Mazza E. On the large strain deformation behavior of silicone-based elastomers for biomedical applications. Polym Test. 2017 Apr;58:189–98. DOI
Bernardi L, Hopf R, Sibilio D, Ferrari A, Ehret AE, Mazza E. On the cyclic deformation behavior, fracture properties and cytotoxicity of silicone-based elastomers for biomedical applications. Polym Test. 2017;60:117–23. DOI
Hopf R, Gessat M, Russ C, Sündermann SH, Falk V, Mazza E. Finite Element Stent Modeling for the Postoperative Analysis of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation. J Med Device. 2017 May 3;11(2):21002. DOI
Schmid Daners M, Kaufmann F, Amacher R, Ochsner G, Wilhelm MJ, Ferrari A, et al. Left Ventricular Assist Devices: Challenges Toward Sustaining Long-Term Patient Care. Ann Biomed Eng. 2017 Aug 31;45(8):1836–51. DOI
Stefopoulos G, Giampietro C, Falk V, Poulikakos D, Ferrari A. Facile endothelium protection from TNF-α inflammatory insult with surface topography. Biomaterials. 2017 Sep;138:131-141. DOI
Weidenbacher L, Abrishamkar A, Rottmar M, Guex AG, Maniura-Weber K, deMello AJ, et al. Electrospraying of microfluidic encapsulated cells for the fabrication of cell-laden electrospun hybrid tissue constructs. Acta Biomater. 2017;64:137–47. DOI

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