UNVEILING THE FUTURE: THE ROLE OF 3D MODELS IN CAPTURING TUMOR MECHANICAL COMPLEXITY

V. Panzetta

University of Naples Federico II, Italy

THE ROLE OF MECHANICAL TRANSDUCTION IN DRUG RESISTANCE: NEW INSIGHTS FROM MICROSTRUCTURED 3D MODELS

G. Buccioli¹, C. Martinelli¹, I. Barravecchia², C. Conci¹, G. Cerullo^3,4, R. Osellame⁴, D. Angeloni², M. T Raimondi¹, E. Jacchetti¹

¹Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy; ²Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy; ³Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy; ⁴Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, CNR, Milan, Italy

ADVANCING PERITONEAL CANCER TREATMENT BY ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATION INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG DELIVERY

M. Rahimi Gorji^1,2,3, Y. Long^1,3, A. Sareen¹, C. Debbaut^2,3, G. Ghorbaniasl⁴, W. Willaert^1,3, W. Ceelen^1,3

¹Laboratory of Experimental Surgery (SURGX), Ghent University, Belgium; ²IBITECH-BioMMedA, Ghent University, Belgium; ³Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG), Belgium; ⁴Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium

AN AI-ACCELERATED DEFORMABLE CELL FRAMEWORK TO ANALYSE MECHANOSENSITIVE TUMOUR GROWTH

I. Senthilkumar^1,2, J. Vangheel³, V. Kumar¹, L. McNamara¹, B. Smeets³, E. Howley¹, E. McEvoy²

¹Discipline of Biomedical Engineering, University of Galway, Ireland; ²School of Computer Science and Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland; ³MeBIOS, KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium

RHEO-OPTICAL COMPRESSION ASSAY: A COST-EFFECTIVE TOOL FOR STUDYING THE BIOMECHANICS OF MULTICELLULAR SPHEROIDS

R. Ferraro, S. Guido, S. Caserta

Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy