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2024

The 4th Youth Academic Seminar of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Department of Interdisciplinary Sciences, Shenzhen

交叉科学部第四届青年学术研讨会，深圳

Combining biological pathways and engineering approaches to improve the function of manufactured organs

融合生物学路径及工程学手段提高制造器官功能

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

Changping District Life Park “Human Legacy Specialist” Salon Event, Beijing

Organ regeneration and manufacturing

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

Engineering Special Seminar, Westlake University, Hangzhou

How close are engineered organs to replicating the natural complexity of biological systems?

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

NSFC seminar: Organoid Construction and Cell Colony Plasticity, Hangzhou

How to design materials and processes to enhance organ fabrication functionality

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

2024 the 8th Shanghai Society for Cell Biology (SSCB) – Cell Discovery (CD) Symposia, Organoids and Precision Medicine, Shanghai

第八期SSCB-CD Symposia（会议主题：类器官与精准医疗），上海

How to design to improve the functionality of manufactured organs

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

The 14th Annual Conference of the Chinese Society for Stem Cell Research (CSSCR)
Harbin, Heilongjiang

中国干细胞第十四届年会，哈尔滨，黑龙江

Symposium on organoid standardization

类器官标准化专题研讨会议

2024 Symposium of the Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Committee of the Chinese Pharmacological Society, Kashgar, Xinjiang

中国药理学会生化与分子药理学专业委员会 2024年研讨会，喀什，新疆

3D bioprinting and organ manufacturing

生物3D打印与器官制造

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

1st BMEMat-Advanced Materials Joint Symposium, Hongkong

第一届《Biomedical Engineering Materials》—《Advanced Materials》联合国际会议，香港

Session: August 14th (Day 1) Afternoon-Parallel Session Ⅲ, Fate Control of Cells such as Neural and Stem cells

Bioink design in organ manufacturing

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

The 30th International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences (ICCES2024), Singapore

第三十届计算与实验科学工程国际会议

How to Design Engineered Organs to Enhance Physiological Function

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

Visit of the delegation from the Director of International Technology Department at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

英国外交、联邦及发展部国际技术司司长代表团来访

Attendees:
Nicole Gregory – Deputy Director, International Technology Department, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Perry Smith – Policy Officer, International Technology Department, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Vanda Green – Science and Technology Counsellor, British Embassy Beijing
Morag Brown – Head of Science and Technology Collaboration, British Embassy Beijing
Isabel Ayton – First Secretary Science and Technology, British Embassy Beijing
Naomi Kolleeny – Second Secretary Technology, British Embassy Beijing

Tongbiao Zhao – Professor of Stem Cell and Immunology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Deputy President of Beijing Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Yaojin Peng – Zhiyi Professor, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Director, Research Center for Science and Technology Ethics, Beijing Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Jie Hao – Executive Director, National Stem Cell Resource Centre, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yin Lin – Senior Manager of International Affairs, Beijing Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Lulu Ding –Assistant Professor, Beijing Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Ruohan Feng – Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2024 GULAB Summer Team Building, Beijing

Indoor Battle Party with Gel Blaster

Stress Relief, Tactical Thinking, and Bonding with Labmates!

Work Hard, Play Harder!

“Focus on New Productivity and Empower High-quality Development” Postdoctoral Academic Forum, Northeast Agricultural University
“聚焦新质生产力· 赋能高质量发展”博士后学术论坛，东北农业大学

Progress and application of biological 3D printing

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

Guangzhou Medical University

广州医科大学

Organ manufacturing and functional simulation

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

2024 International Biomaterials Forum, South China TMJ and Regenerative Medicine Conference, Guangzhou
2024国际生物材料论坛暨华南颞下颌关节及再生医学大会
Bio-ink design in organ manufacturing process
器官制造过程中的生物墨水设计
Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker and Session chair

Congratulations to our graduate students Haitao Guo and Juan Wu!

Wish them all the best in the future!

The 12th World Biomaterials Congress (WBC 2024), Daegu, South Korea

Session Organizer and Co-Chair (SP-T02-0076: Biomaterials processing and biofabrication: Creating 3D architectures to facilitate organ regeneration)

Keynote Speaker (S14-13-2: Exploring controlled cell movement to create engineered organs with natural properties)

Poster Session:

Xin Liu (post-doc): Three-dimensional liver tissue model with branched vascular networks by multi-materials bioprinting

Wenhui Huang (PhD Student): Easily Processable Norbornene-modified Collagen-based Hydrogel for Bioprinting Functional Tissue Constructs

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Congratulations to our graduate students Haitao Guo and Juan Wu!

Wish them all the best in the future!

The 27th IOZ FRIDAY SEMINAR
Orthopedic clinical issues, data, and future challenges
骨科临床问题、数据与未来挑战
Invited Speaker: Xuenong Zou, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University

The 15th Life Sciences Forum of Qin Pengchun Education Fund & the Centenary Commemoration of the Birth of Mr. Qin Pengchun, Harbin

第十五届秦鹏春教育基金生命科学论坛

Organ manufacturing and functional simulation

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker and Session chair

Open-sharing Forum of Major National Science and Technology Infrastructure,
Huairou Science City Life Science Industry Development Seminar and Exchange Meeting, Beijing
“国家重大科技基础设施开放共享论坛”-怀柔科学城生命科学产业发展研讨交流会，北京怀柔
Organ manufacturing and functional simulation
Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

Annual Progress Report for Graduate Students of Biosinspired Group

Major Professor: Qi Gu

Guidance Committee Members (listed in no particular order) :

Shun Zhang, Weiwei Zhai, Jingtao Guo, Baocheng Guo, Yukai Wang, Guihai Feng

UOW’s Beijing Alumni and Supporters Cocktail Reception

Global Perspectives on Leadership and International Partnerships

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Panelist

Life Science Forum

Personalized 3D Vessel-on-chip: Towards “Sherlock Holmes” approach to detecting blood clots

Invited Speaker: Lining Arnold Ju, Sydney University

The 4th Tug of War, Institute for Stem Cell and Regeneration

Congratulations to the Group of Bioinspired Engineering for achieving third place!

ICAM-BM2024 Conference Side Event: GU Lab Tour and Invited Presentation

From the Petri Dish Towards Whole Organs: Scaling Up 3D Bioprinting

Invited Speaker: Mark Skylar-Scott, Stanford University
Invited Guests: James Armstrong, University of Bristol

ICAM-BM2024 Conference Side Event: GU Lab Tour

Invited Guests:

Tim Woodfield, President and Board of Directors of the International Society for Biofabrication (ISBF), University of Otago;

Xiongbiao (Daniel) Chen, University of Saskatchewan;

Khoon Lim, President of the Australasian Society for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering (ASBTE), University of Sydney;

Jinah Jang, Pohang University of Science and Technology;

Ge Gao, Beijing Institute of Technology

The 6th International Conference on Additive Manufacturing and Bio-Manufacturing, Beijing

第六届国际增材制造与生物制造会议

Session Co-Chair (SBM06-1 Biomanufacturing for Human Organ Physiopathology Emulation) and Invited Speaker (SBM06-I01 Utilizing cellular mobility to connect engineered and natural organs)

2023 Annual Report of GULAB

Thanks for the hard work and dedication of all the group members in our lab.

Wishing a blessed and successful new year! May your year of the Dragon be full of happiness and health!

THANK YOU 2023, HELLO 2024!

2024 Changchun Conference on Transplantation Immunology & Xenotransplantation

The First Bethune Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun

3D printing and organ manufacturing

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

China Medical University Hongyi Forum, Shenyang

3D printing and organ manufacturing

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

2023

College of Animal Science, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot

Harnessing developmental biology for natural-mimicking engineered organs

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

The 11th National Member Congress of the Genetics Society of China, Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Branch, Wuhan

中国遗传学会第十一次全国会员代表大会，干细胞与再生医学分会，武汉

Macroscopic organ fabrication guided by microscopic cellular motion

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

Wuhan University

Exploring the potential of developmental biology in engineering organs with natural-like characteristics

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

Youth Power of Change · 2023 Tanzhen Youth Science and Technology Forum, Tsinghua University

青年变革力量 · 2023探臻青年科技论坛，清华大学

3D printing and organ manufacturing

3D打印与器官制造

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

Commencement

Zili Gao has successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation.

Congratulations on your graduation and best wishes for your next adventure, Dr. Gao!

2023 International Symposium on Microphysiological Systems & the 6th Organoid and Organ-on-Chip Academic Conference and Industrial Investment Forum, Nanjing

How close is organ fabrication to achieving the natural complexity?

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

The 10th China Orthopedic Regenerative Medicine Group Forum, Beijing
Establish an electromechanical synergy system to create functional muscles and explore the multi-factor regulation mechanism
建立机电协同系统制造功能肌肉并探究多因素调控机理
Tingting Fan, PhD candidate, Invited Speaker

The 14th Life Sciences Forum of Qin Pengchun Education Fund & the Centenary Commemoration of the Birth of Mr. Qin Pengchun, Harbin

Exploring the potential of developmental biology in achieving natural-like engineered organs

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

The 4th China Forum on Biosensors/Biochips/Nanobiotechnology, Suzhou

How closely engineered organs align with natural ones in physiological simulation

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

How to narrow the discrepancy between engineered and natural organs?

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

2023 Chinese Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society – Asia-Pacific Conference 2023 (TERMIS-AP), Hong Kong

Session Chair (#S03 Architecting 3D ·functional structures to enhance organ regeneration and #S04 Constructing intricate 3D structures to enable organ regeneration), Keynote Speaker, Exploring·Cell Movement in Bioprinting: Bridging the Gap Between Engineered and Natural Organs, and Invited-Speaker, Biofabrication with-biomimetic microgels and microcarrier

2023 Chinese Biomaterials Congress, Chongqing

Harnessing Cell Movement in Bioprinting

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

Peking University First Hospital

How to close the gap between engineered and natural organs?

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

Peking University Third Hospital

3D Bioprinting and Organ Manufacturing

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

International Conference on Biofabrication 2023, Saskatoon, Canada

How far are engineered organs from achieving natural complexity?

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited talk and Session chair (online)

Publication
Glad to share the snaps from those two cover articles, Advanced Materials and Bioactive Materials.
Congratulations to Shenglong Ding and Zili Gao!

Tsinghua University, Beijing

清华大学，北京

How far are engineered organs from achieving natural complexity?

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

Commencement

Congratulations to our graduate students Minxuan Jia and Jingmin An!
Wish them all the best in the future!

The 11th Chinese Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Congress, Guangzhou

第十一届全国组织工程与再生医学大会，广州

Complex organ manufacturing

Prof. Qi Gu, Session keynote and co-chair

International Conference On Biomaterials

Bio-Design And Manufacturing (BDMC2023), Singapore

第三届国际生物设计与制造，生物材料学术会议，新加坡

Harnessing Microscopic Cell Movements in Macroscopic Organ Fabrication

Prof. Qi Gu, Session keynote talk and session chair

The 6th National Conference on Developmental Biology, Hohhot

第六届全国发育生物学大会，呼和浩特

Unveiling developmental biology in engineered organs

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

Microphysiological system -Organoids & Organ-on-a-chip Frontier Development

Beihang University, Beijing

医工交叉前沿领域—颠覆性技术创新学术研讨会：微生理系统-类器官与器官芯片前沿进展

北京航空航天大学，北京

Closing the gap in physiological structure between engineered and natural organs

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing

北京市眼科研究所，北京

Bridging the gap: unveiling the physiological structure of engineered organs

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

Publication
Glad to share our recent work on an in vitro blastocyst implantation model using droplet microfluidics to explain the stiffness influences of trophoblast implantation. Many thanks to our collaborators and students, Jia Guo and Bo Gou.

Publication
Glad to share our recent work on a novel HA-based microcarrier as the core material to be used for the scalable suspension serum-free culture of hESC-derived MSCs. Many thanks to our collaborators, Prof. Qi Zhou and Prof. Meijin Guo.

Publication
Glad to share our recent review on collagen-based biomaterials in neural tissue engineering, covering different manufacturing strategies, therapeutic potentials, challenges, and future prospects. Many thanks to our collaborator Prof. Mingzhu Zhang and students, including Shenglong Ding, Kai Li, and Xiyuan Zhao.

Institute of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Shandong

山东大学晶体材料研究所，山东

How to 3D print functional organs

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing

北京大学医学部，北京

3D printing and organ manufacturing.

3D打印与器官制造

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

2023 China Biomedical Engineering Conference & Medical Innovation Summit

Suzhou International Expo Centre, China

2023 中国生物医学工程大会暨创新医疗峰会（BME2023），苏州

The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong

中山大学附属第一医院，广东

How close are engineered organs to natural ones: Exploring the manufacturing gap

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

Commencement

Shuyu Zhang has successfully achieved her Postdoctoral dissertation.

Congratulations on your outstanding academic achievement and best wishes for your next adventure!

Fudan Organoid Summit Forum, Fudan University, Shanghai

复旦类器官高峰论坛

What is the distance between engineered organs and natural ones

Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

Commencement

Shenglong Ding has successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation.

Congratulations on your graduation and best wishes for your next adventure, Dr. Ding!

University of Wollongong, Australia

伍伦贡大学，澳大利亚

How far apart are the engineered organs from natural ones

我们离构建真正的器官还有多远
Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

The University of Sydney, Australia

悉尼大学，澳大利亚

Tissue fabrication within cell movement: Exploring the proximity of engineered organs to natural ones

细胞运动中的组织构建：探索工程手段构建器官与天然器官之间的相似性
Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

3rd Advanced Materials and 3D Printing in Medicine Workshop, University of Otago Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand

第三届先进材料与3D打印医学研讨会，奥塔哥大学基督城分校，新西兰

Prof. Qi Gu

The 28th annual conference of the Australasian Society for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering (ASBTE 2023), Christchurch, New Zealand

第28届澳大利亚生物材料与组织工程学会年会(ASBTE 2023)，新西兰克赖斯特彻奇

Large-scale tissue fabrication and micro-scale 3D cell migration

从宏观尺度组织构建到微观尺度细胞迁移
Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

The 2nd Biomedical Polymer Materials Conference, Xiamen, Fujian.

第二届生物医用高分子材料大会，厦门

Biomaterial design strategies in organ fabrication

器官制造中的生物材料设计策略
Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Speaker

Annual Conference for Society of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Biomanufacturing Division and International Symposium on Bio-Manufacturing, Beijing

2023全国生物制造工程学术年会暨生物制造国际研讨会，北京

Macroscopic Biofabrication and Microscopic Cell Movement

器官制造与细胞运动
Prof. Qi Gu, Invited Session Speaker and Session chair

Publication
Glad to share our recent work on a novel strategy for regulating chondrocyte dedifferentiation for a better understanding of geometrical insight clues into mechanotransduction interaction in regulating cell fate. Many thanks to our collaborator Prof. Mingzhu Zhang and students including Xiyuan Zhao and Wei Xiong.

News Archive

Before 2022

Awards:

2022: Distinguished Young Investigator awarded by the Chinese Society of Stem Cell Research (CSSCR)
2022: Excellent Young Scientists Fund awarded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

Conferences:

The 10th Annual Meeting of CSSCR
ICBME 2019
TERMIS-AP & AMBC7 Congress 2019

Graduate Students:

Biao Song, Tingting Fan, Xia Li