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Matthias Lutolf
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MISSION
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Research in the Lutolf lab is at the interface of stem cell biology and bioengineering to gain fundamental insight into how protein components of tissue-specific microenvironments, termed niches, control the behavior of stem cells.
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BIOGRAPHY
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Matthias Lutolf completed his undergraduate studies in Materials Engineering at ETH Zurich (1999) with a Master thesis in the group of Prof. Ulrich W. Suter. From 1996 to 1997 he worked as trainee for ABB (Baden-Daettwil), Sulzer Innotec (Winterthur), Contraves Space (Zurich) and Baxter Healthcare Corporation (Irvine, USA). He carried out his graduate studies at ETH and the University of Zurich in the group of Prof. Jeffrey A. Hubbell. For his Ph.D. thesis on a novel class of biologically responsive synthetic materials for tissue engineering he was awarded the ETH medal (2003), and was named as a co-inventor on four internationally issued patents in the field of polymeric biomaterials and growth factor delivery systems. In 2005, Lutolf joined the Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology of Prof. Helen Blau at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was awarded a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society fellowship (2006) for his research on microenvironmental regulation of hematopoietic stem cells. Since spring 2007 he is Assistant Professor within the Faculty of Life Sciences and Institute of Bioengineering at the EPFL. His current research activities interface biomolecular engineering with stem cell biology. In 2007 Lutolf won a prestigious European Young Investigator (EURYI) award to start up his independent research at EFPL.
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Tenure Track Assistant Professor 