Barbieri Thesis - BioMedical Materials program (BMM)

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Davide Barbieri was born on May 25 th , 1981 in Vimercate, Italy.
He spent his childhood in Concorezzo, with frequent periods on
the Lunigiana hills, and travelling around Italy and Europe. Once
graduated from the Scientific Lyceum ‘Albert Einstein’ (Vimercate,
Italy) in 2001, he enrolled at the Polytechnic of Milano (Italy)
where he obtained a Master in Biomedical Engineering
(Biomaterials) in April 2007. He spent his last nine months of studies performing an
internship in Progentix BV (Bilthoven, the Netherlands) on a project that led to his
final Master thesis entitled ‘Nano–scaled composites of calcium phosphate apatite
and polymer: preparation and characterization’. The whole project was supervised by
Dr. Yuan and Prof. Farè. From April 2007 he worked for one year at Progentix BV on
the development of instructive putties and injectable pastes for bone regeneration.
Afterwards, in April 2008 he accepted a PhD position at Xpand Biotechnology BV
(Bilthoven, the Netherlands) within Prof. de Bruijn’s group and under daily supervision
of Dr. Yuan. This project had as objectives to develop osteoinductive biomaterials for
use in load–bearing sites and to understand the role played by the features of the
biomaterials in the osteoinduction process. The PhD project has been characterized
by the collaborations with Purac Biomaterials (Gorinchem, the Netherlands), the
Biomaterial Science and Technology (BST) and the Tissue Regeneration (TR)
departments at the University of Twente (Enschede, the Netherlands) and the
Biomaterials Laboratory at the Polytechnic of Milano (Italy). The results of this
research are summarized in the PhD thesis entitled ‘Instructive composites for bone
regeneration’. From December 2012, Davide will continue working at Xpand
Biotechnology BV as member of the Research and Development group.
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