Nicolas Rivron
Nicolas Rivron is a developmental biologist and tissue engineer. He leads the laboratory for synthetic development at the Institute for Molecular Biotechnologies, from the Austrian Academy of Science. His laboratory formed a model of the complete preimplantation conceptus from stem cells, which he called blastoid. This embryo model recapitulates aspects of cell fate specification, morphogenesis, and implantation in utero (mouse blastoids) and in vitro using endometrium organoids (human blastoids). His laboratory investigates the inter-species variations in the principles of positional information and self-organization that shape the mammalian embryo for implantation.
