Federica Gemignani
GelMA-based hydrogels for 3D modeling of metastatic Colorectal Cancer patient-derived organoids.
Rel. Giulia Mesiano. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Biomedical Engineering, 2025
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Gelatine methacryloyl (GelMA)-based hydrogels are emerging as innovative and promising 3D platforms, increasingly employed in many fields of biomedical research due to their high versatility, biocompatibility and tunability of mechanical properties. Derived from gelatine and functionalized with methacrylic anhydride, GelMA can be precisely tailored by adjusting set up synthesis, enabling the formation of highly customizable 3D matrices via photo-polymerization. This study aimed to assess the potential of GelMA-based hydrogel as a support for mimicking the extracellular matrix (ECM) of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), the third most frequently diagnosed malignant tumour worldwide. Nowadays 3D in-vitro models are widely adopted to investigate the biological processes underlying pathologies as mCRC, and as platforms for the evaluation of new therapeutic agents, due to their ability to faithfully reproduce the 3D native tissue architecture.
The first part of this thesis focused on establishing 3D cultures of mCRC in two different types of GelMA (Type A and B) and comparing the performance of these matrices with Matrigel, the current gold standard for 3D models due to its ECM-like properties
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