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SynEry researcher Dr. Federico Fontana (postdoctoral researcher, Tissue Engineering Unit, IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza) represented the consortium at the SNOOPY 2025 Conference in […]

The Italian daily La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno recently featured the SynEry project, highlighting the key contributions of project partner IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza […]

Presenting Artificial Blood Research in Xi’an Zihao Sun, a postdoctoral researchers at KU Leuven, represented the SynEry consortium at the 20th International Symposium on […]

Congratulations to SynEry researcher Timen Mooren (Biomedical MRI Lab, KU Leuven), who was awarded the Nanoscale Journal Family Oral Presentation Prize at the 16th […]

A new study by Timen Mooren, Birger Tielemans, Agustin Reséndiz-Sharpe, and Greetje Vande Velde (Biomedical MRI lab, KU Leuven) demonstrates how the wax moth […]

The SynEry consortium recently gathered in Leuven, Belgium, for the project’s final meeting, bringing to a close years of collaborative research into artificial blood […]

From Synthetic Cells to Advanced Therapies SynEry is joining forces with the EIC project ArTCell, to host the Bionano-engineering summer school 2026 at KU […]

PhD researcher Karolina Zofia Dąbrowska (Multicellular System Dynamics lab, KU Leuven) has just completed a short research stay at the Biomembranes & Nanomedicine Unit, […]

Carlos Cascales Guerrero, PhD researcher at the FUN Nanosurf lab at ICMAB, Barcelona, presented his PhD research at the XXI Simposio de Jóvenes Investigadores […]

Spotted on CellMech2025 in Leuven: our own Konstantinos Giarentis and Willemien Gosselé! This conference, co-organised by SynEry partner Multicellular System Dynamics Lab, focused on […]

Over the past two weeks, the Multicellular Systems Dynamics Lab had the pleasure of hosting Federico Fontana, Ph.D. from the CNTE, Italy (Center for […]

In February 2025, PhD researcher Willemien Gosselé of the Biomimetics group, was present at KU Leuven Inside, celebrating 600 years of outstanding and inspiring […]

Prof. Xevi Casadevall i Solvas and PhD researcher Willemien Gosselé (MeBioS, KU Leuven) attended last week’s 19th International Symposium on Blood Subsitutes hosted by the […]

Sara Battista from the FunNanoSurf (ICMAB, Barcelona) was present on the QuimBioQuim, the Congress of Young Therapeutic Chemists and Biochemists, in Jaén. She presented […]

Spotted in the influential Spanish newspaper El Pais: an interview with Arantzazu Gonzalez-Campo from Functional Nanomaterials and Surfaces (ICMAB, Barcelona). She discusses SynEry in […]

Spotted on last week’s microTAS 2024 conference in Montréal🍁 : Jorik Waeterschoot and PI Xavier Casadevall i Solvas from the Biomimetics Group and PI […]

Jorik Waeterschoot et al. published a paper in Nature Communications, outlining why it’s interesting to use GUVs for RBC biomimicry for biomedical applications. They […]

SynEry hosted the Bionanotech Spring school in collaboration with LIMNI@KU Leuven. We were honoured to welcome international experts on #biomaterials, #biofabrication, and integration for micro- and nanosystems. […]

Our first paper was published in Advanced Science 🎉 Jorik Waeterschoot et al. from KU Leuven (Belgium) show the production of giant lipid vesicles […]

#DVDW2023From a primordial soup to life, from DNA over artificial cells and organ-on-chip platforms, the KU Leuven MeBioS Biomimetics researchers explained it all to […]

Explaining the properties of life, cell biology and self-assembly to kids? Challenge accepted! 👩‍🏫 Jorik Waeterschoot and Willemien Gosselé from the MeBioS Biomimetics Group gave a lecture to […]

Are you a researcher in the field of bionanotechnology (biomaterials, biosensors, biomimetics, microfluidics and much more)? Come and join us on BioNanoTech 2024, the spring […]

After the first review, all SynEry partners put their heads together to discuss the next steps. We’re making good progress, but quite some challenges […]

The SynEry consortium met in April to discuss the results on the project and plan the route ahead. Exciting results and big challenges to […]

Synery was one of the 16 projects selected for the EIC bootcamp! […]

On April 28th and 29th, the kickoff meeting of the SynEry project was held in Leuven. It was a great opportunity to interact in person […]