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Dr. Ouyang Won Materials Today Rising Star Award
Dr. Ouyang is awarded 2026 Materials Today Rising Star Award in Biomaterials https://www.elsevier.com/subject/materials-today/rising-star-award/winners-2026
Dr. Ouyang is awarded 2026 Materials Today Rising Star Award in Biomaterials https://www.elsevier.com/subject/materials-today/rising-star-award/winners-2026
PhD student Bohan Dou has won the competitive National Scholarship for graduate students 研究生国家奖学金. Congratulations!
Our research article entitled “In situ particle-to-fibre transformation of hydrogels for 3D printing” has been published in Nature in August 2026. Access to the paper via doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10883-z
Dezhi and Runze have been awarded PhD degree by Tsinghua University in June 2026. Congratulations Dr. Zhou and Dr. Xu! Together with his PhD degree, Dezhi also won the Excellent PhD Dissertation and Excellent Graduate Read more…
Paper published in Advanced Materials featured as Inside Cover https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.71105
Our research article entitled “Off-the-shelf Granular Microtissue Bioinks: Long-term Preserved Cellularized Porous Microgels with Enhanced Cell Activity for Shelf-ready Biofabrication” has been published in Advanced Materials in July 2025. Access to the paper via https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202506616 Congratulations Read more…
D. Zhou#, B. Dou#,… L. Ouyang*, In situ particle-to-fibre transformation of hydrogels for 3D printing, Nature, 656, 879–887(2026).
C. Wang,… L. Ouyang*, Off-the-shelf Granular Microtissue Bioinks: Long-term Preserved Cellularized Porous Microgels with Enhanced Cell Activity for Shelf-ready Biofabrication, Advanced Materials, 37, e06616 (2025).
R. Xu,… Ouyang*, W. Sun, Enabling 3D printability and vascular morphogenesis with double network dynamic hydrogels. Materials Today, 84, 10-27 (2025).
L. Ouyang*, Pushing the Rheological and Mechanical Boundaries of Extrusion-based 3D Bioprinting. Trends in Biotechnology, 40, 891-902 (2022).

Novel approaches to the printing and assembling of living building blocks (e.g., cellular biomaterials). Keywords: Bottom-up (additive) manufacturing, 3D bioprinting, microfabrication, hierarchical structure.
Novel biomaterials strategies to advance 3D cellular environment towards better cell-material interaction. Keywords: Bioinks, hydrogels, bioactive materials, microgels.
Practical solutions to the engineering of functional in vitro living systems towards biological function. Keywords: tissue engineering, organ-on-a-chip, drug testing,