Dr. Francesco Pampaloni

3D cell biology, light sheet bioprinting

Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences and Institute of Cell Biology & Neuroscience, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main

Research Positions & Education

Since 2009, tenured staff scientist, BMLS, Goethe University Frankfurt
2020 – Visiting scientist, EMBL Barcelona
2008 – 2009, Staff Scientist, EMBL Heidelberg
2003 – 2008, Postdoctoral fellow, EMBL Heidelberg
2002 – 2003, Postdoctoral fellow, Research Center Jülich
2002, Doctoral studies (Prof. Dr. Joerg Enderlein), Chemistry, University of Regensburg
Physical Chemistry, University of Florence

Breideband, L., Wächtershäuser, K. N., Sarkar, R., Puspathasan, M., Stelzer, E. H., & Pampaloni, F. (2025). Gravitational forces and matrix stiffness modulate the invasiveness of breast cancer cells in bioprinted spheroids. Materials Today Bio, 31, 101640.
Hafa, L., Breideband, L., Ramirez Posada, L., Torras, N., Martinez, E., Stelzer, E. H., & Pampaloni, F.* (2024). Light Sheet‐Based Laser Patterning Bioprinting Produces Long‐Term Viable Full‐Thickness Skin Constructs. Advanced Materials, 36(8), 2306258.
Haydo, A., Wehle, A., Herold‐Mende, C., Kögel, D., Pampaloni, F., & Linder, B. (2023). Combining organotypic tissue culture with light‐sheet microscopy (OTCxLSFM) to study glioma invasion. EMBO reports, 24(12), e56964.
Breideband, L., Wächtershäuser, K. N., Hafa, L., Wieland, K., Frangakis, A. S., Stelzer, E. H., & Pampaloni, F.* (2022). Upgrading a consumer stereolithographic 3d printer to produce a physiologically relevant model with human liver cancer organoids. Advanced Materials Technologies, 7(10), 2200029
Hof, L., Moreth, T., Koch, M., Liebisch, T., Kurtz, M., Tarnick, J., … & Pampaloni, F.* (2021). Long-term live imaging and multiscale analysis identify heterogeneity and core principles of epithelial organoid morphogenesis. BMC biology, 19, 1-22.