Daniel Nieto García
Daniel Nieto (Trazo, A Coruña) is an international expert in biofabrication for regenerative medicine. He has been a lecturer at the MERLN Institute (Maastricht University) and carried out postdoctoral stays at Harvard-MIT, Granada, Galway, and Oxford. He was a principal investigator at the National University of Ireland, where he established a pilot plant for advanced biofabrication, and a visiting professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA).
He has authored over 75 scientific publications, contributed to 100 conferences, participated in 15 research projects, holds 5 patents, and is co-founder of Healthbiolux. He leads the Advanced Biofabrication Laboratory at the University of A Coruña (UDC), which includes a satellite research unit at North-West University in South Africa and will soon open another at the Singapore Centre for 3D Printing in Singapore. His work combines photonics, biomedicine, and biomedical engineering to advance tissue and organ engineering.
Project
The HOT-BIOPRINTING project (ERC Consolidator Grant, €2M) develops a disruptive bioprinting technology using Holographic Optical Tweezers for Bioprinting (HOTB) for 3D cell manipulation and process automation, overcoming current limitations (size, resolution, complexity) and enabling the fabrication of vascularized artificial tissues and organs that faithfully mimic human ones.