Gabriele Di Napoli is a Chemical Technical Assistant in the frame of Brighter Project working at Cellendes. He has a degree as a Chemical Engineer and for the last years he has been applying his knowledge in biomedicine, in the study of tumours or Parkinson’s disease. Now he joined Brighter Project to the develop and prepare photo-crosslinkable hydrogels and study their compatibility with cell culture. You can check here a short video where he briefly shows one of the experiments he usually performs in the lab., and an interview where he explains in more detail some aspects of his professional profile and his role in Brighter project. Enjoy it!

Ruby Shalom-Feuerstein, Anna Altshuler and Aya Amitai-Lange, the workforce of Brighter project at Technion, Israel, led a work that has just been published in the prestigious journal Cell Stem Cell. They describe for the first time the existence of two limbal stem cell populations that have different characteristics and functions in the maintenance of the cornea. This pioneering study opens the doors to the development of accurate treatments for corneal disorders.

Levin Hafa is a PhD student working at the Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS) at Goethe University Frankfurt (GUF) in the frame of Brighter. His is a biologist specialized in molecular and cell biology. In this short video we can see one his tasks in the project related with the hydrogels patterning process. In this interview Levin explains his professional profile, formation, and his role in Brighter project. For sure his knowhow will be very important to the success of the project!

BRIGHTER European Project attracted attention and stood out at the last BioNTERM conference: Bio and Nanomaterials in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. Louise Breideband presented the project on a video-poster that was awarded with the best video-poster prize, recognizing the quality of the presentation and the scientific content. In addition, confirming the interest aroused, she was also selected to give a flash talk about BRIGHTER during the event.

Angela Cirulli is a PhD student in the frame of Brighter working at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), in the Biomimetic Systems for Cell Engineering Laboratory led by Elena Martínez. Her background and previous research experience add high value to the project! You can check here a short video where she briefly describes a typical workday in the lab., and also an interview where she explains in more detail some aspects of her professional profile and her role in Brighter project. Enjoy it!

During the first Future 3D Additive Manufacturing - the 3DMM2O Conference, held online last 1^st to 4^th of March, Louise Breideband, PhD student at the Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences at GUF (Goethe University Frankfurt), presented the BRIGHTER project on a flash talk and a poster, both signed by all partners of the project.

Francesco Pampaloni, Louise Breideband and Levin Hafa participate in a video to explain the work developed at the Physical Biology Group from the Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences at the Goethe University Frankfurt (GUF). Their role in Brighter Project is, together with Mycronic, to adapt the light-sheet microscopy technique to 3D bioprinting. In their laboratory they are focused in applying physical models and physical technologies to understand biological systems.

Through the initiative of the European Innovation Council Business Acceleration Services, the EIC Pathfinder Bootcamp: from Academia to Business was a virtual event that took place from 16 to 19 February 2021, offering an intensive course in business and entrepreneurship to beneficiaries of FET-Open & FET-Proactive projects. In this frame, Gustaf Mårtensson from Mycronic took this opportunity to bring new ideas on leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship to BRIGHTER Project.

  Last 11 of February we celebrated worldwide the 6^th International Day of Women and Girls in Science, with plenty of activities to help eliminating long-standing biases and gender stereotypes that are steering girls and women away from science related fields. One of these science disseminations activities was held by Núria Torras, researcher working at Brighter Project in the Biomimetic systems for cell engineering group from Elena Martinez at IBEC, Barcelona. She participated in the annual event 100tifiques, organized by the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation (FCRI) and the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), an initiative that aims to bring science closer to schools and claim the female scientific

On the occasion of the 6th International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we interview Aya Amitai-Lange and Anna Altshuler to know a little bit more about them. They are the two women that carry out the Bright project at Technion, Israel. Both Anna and Aya work at the laboratory of Prof. Ruby Shalom-Feuerstein, at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.