
Businaro’s Lab
Group Leader: Luca Businaro
Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnologies – Rome Branch
Key words: Organ on chip, microfluidics, micro and nano fabrication, ontologies
Contact
Luca Businaro
Istitute
Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnologies – Rome Branch
Km. 29.500 Via Salaria, Montelibretti, RM 00015
www.ifn.cnr.it
Lab Members
Luca Businaro, Adele De Ninno, Francesca Roman Bertani, Farnaz Dabbagh Moghaddam
Activities
Organ on chip approach to develop advanced in-vitro biological models, with particular focus to onco-immunology. Interoperability of in-vitro and in-silico models
Key Publications
- Vacchelli et al. 2015, “Chemotherapy-induced antitumor immunity requires formyl peptide receptor 1”, Science, vol. 350, no. 6263, pp. 972-978.
- V. Lucarini et al., “Immunogenic Cell Death Inducers in Cancer Immunotherapy to Turn Cold Tumors into Hot Tumors,” International Journal of Molecular Sciences 26 (2025): 1613, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms26041613.11
- S. Ielpo, F. Barberini, F. Dabbagh Moghaddam t al, “Crosstalk and communication of cancer-associated fibroblasts with natural killer and dendritic cells: New frontiers and unveiled opportunities for cancer immunotherapy,” Cancer Treat. Rev. 131, 102843 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ctrv.2024.10284325
- Parlato et al. 2017, “3D Microfluidic model for evaluating immunotherapy efficacy by tracking dendritic cell behaviour toward tumor cells”, Scientific Reports, vol. 7, no. 1.112
- Biselli et al 2017, “Organs on chip approach: A tool to evaluate cancer-immune cells interactions”, Scientific Reports, vol. 7, no. 1.
Istrument & technologies
Lithography and additive manufacturing