Group Leader

Lindberg@uoregon.edu

Gabriella Lindberg completed her master’s degree in biotechnology and tissue engineering at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. Passionate about developing new generation biomaterials, she worked at a spin-off medical device company for four years before she moved to New Zealand to pursue a PhD in biomedical engineering at the University of Otago. She later completed a two years post-doc and was promoted to Research Fellow in 2019 in the Christchurch Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering (CReaTE) Group.

She leads the Lindberg lab which focuses on the design of cell-instructive hydrogels, bioinks, and bioresins that mimic the native architectural organization and biological niche of musculoskeletal tissues. Through controlled delivery of cells, growth factors and oxygen, she is progressing the clinical relevance of bioinks, establishing structure-to-function relationships, and further advancing 3D-models to highlight patient-to-patient variability and model disease progression and implant integration. Her research is part of larger collaborative projects involving both national and international collaborators in the likes of New Zealand, Germany, Netherlands and Australia.

She holds a New Zealand Health Research Council Emerging Researcher Grant and has also won several other awards such as the International Society of Biofabrication (ISBF) young investigator award in 2019, the Consortium for Medical Device Technologies (CMDT) and the Medical Technologies Centre of Research Excellence (MedTech CoRE) award also in 2019, and University of Otago’s integrity award in 2017.

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Lab Manager

vthoms@uoregon.edu

Vinni completed his bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Oregon in 2018, with a minor in physics. While attending the University of Oregon, he worked in the Parthasarathy Bio-Physics lab where his research in fluorescence microscopy led to publication as an undergraduate.

After graduation he accepted a position at Oregon Health and Science University as a research assistant in the OHSU bio-library where he worked as a liaison between pathology and clinical research. In 2020 he left OHSU and returned to school for computer programming. In 2021 he accepted a position at the University of Oregon’s Knight Center for Accelerating Scientific Impact as a research assistant for Jonathan Reeder’s Bio Functional Materials lab where his research focused on the design/fabrication of wearable sensors. In 2022 he transferred to the Lindberg lab as the labs manager.

Vinni’s current research is based on bio functional tissue engineering.

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