Matthias Lütolf

Matthias Lütolf is a Swiss biomedical engineer and a full professor at the Institute of Bioengineering[1] and the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering[2] of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) where he heads the Laboratory of Stem Cell Bioengineering.[3]

Matthias Lütolf
Academic background
Education
Alma mater
Academic work
InstitutionsÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Main interests
Websitehttps://lscb.epfl.ch/

Career

Lütolf graduated in Material Engineering at ETH Zurich in 1999 where he also carried out his PhD studies under the supervision of Jeffrey Hubbell until 2003.[4] His PhD thesis was awarded with an ETH medal in 2004. From 2005 to 2007 he continued his research training with Helen Blau as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Stem Cell Biology at Stanford University. In 2007 he joined EPFL to found his own research group. In 2014 he was first nominated as an Associate Professor and then in 2018 Full Professor in the School of Life Sciences at EPFL. He served as the Director of the Institute of Bioengineering at EPFL from 2014 to 2018.[5][6]

Research

His research program combines stem cell biology with engineering principles and quantitative thinking. His transdisciplinary research involves engineers, chemists, physicists, cell and developmental biologists, and aims at developing technologies that have true biological and medicinal function, and applicability. Lütolf focuses on the bioengineering of miniature tissues (organoids) that are generated from self-organizing stem cells. He is also interested to gain insight into how complex three-dimensional micro-environments control the behavior of stem cells.[6]

Distinctions

Memberships:

Awards:

  • ETH Medal, PhD thesis (2004)
  • European Young Investigator Awards (EURYI) (2007)[8]

Editor:

  • RSC Journal Biomaterials Science, associate editor[9]
  • NPC Journal Scientific Reports, editorial board

Publications

Matthias Lütolf publications indexed by Google Scholar

References
  1. "Institute of Bioengineering". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2020-08-24.
  2. "Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering – ISIC". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2020-08-24.
  3. "Laboratory of Stem Cell Bioengineering ‐ EPFL". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2020-08-24.
  4. "Team". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2020-08-24.
  5. "EPFL Institute of Bioengineering Annual Report 2012". Issuu. Retrieved 2020-08-24.
  6. "Matthias Lütolf". people.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2020-08-24.
  7. EMBO. "62 life scientists elected as EMBO Members". EMBO. Retrieved 2020-08-24.
  8. "2007 EURYI: 20 researchers to receive Nobel Prize-sized awards in Helsinki". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2020-08-24.
  9. "Biomaterials Science". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 2020-08-24.


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