Dr Luca Urbani obtained his PhD in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Padua and then trained as a postdoc in UCL on extracellular matrix biology, 3D cultures, tissue engineering, stem cell biology and bioengineered models of disease.
He established his Liver Regeneration and Tissue Engineering group as Senior Lecturer at the Roger Williams Institute of Liver Studies, King’s College London and Foundation for Liver Research. His work focuses on the study of the cellular and extracellular components of the microenvironment in liver disease and cancer. Using novel 3D bioengineered systems, organoids cultures and decellularised matrices, his work aims to understand how extracellular matrix remodelling typical of fibrosis and cancer drives disease progression and response to treatment.