Matthias Lütolf

Professor Matthias Lütolf
Lütolf in 2007
Born	1973 (age 51–52)
Citizenship	Swiss
Education	Materials engineering Biomedical engineering
Alma mater	ETH Zurich Stanford University
Known for	Biomaterials stem cell biology Organoid models
Scientific career
Fields	Stem Cells Biomaterials Tissue Engineering Microfluidics Single-Cell Analysis High-Throughput Screening
Institutions	EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Thesis	Cell-responsive synthetic hydrogels (2002)
Doctoral advisor	Jeffrey Hubbell
Website	www.epfl.ch/labs/lutolf-lab/

Matthias Lutolf (born in 1973, also known as Matthias Lütolf) is a bio-engineer and a professor at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) where he leads the Laboratory of Stem Cell Bioengineering.^{[1][2] [3][4]} In 2021, he became the scientific director for Roche's Institute for Translation Bioengineering in Basel.^[5]

Lutolf studied materials engineering at ETH Zurich where he graduated in 1998. In 2002, he received his PhD in biomedical engineering from ETH Zurich for his studies on cell-responsive hydrogels for tissue engineering and cell culture, in the group of Jeffrey Hubbell.^[6][7] He completed postdoctoral studies in the laboratory of Helen Blau at Stanford University, where he worked on novel cell culture approaches for blood and muscle stem cells, so called synthetic niches.^[8][9] In 2007, he founded his own laboratory at EPFL, where he was promoted to associate professor in 2014 and full professor in 2018.^[1] From 2014 to 2018, he was director of EPFL's Institute of Bioengineering.^[10] In June 2021, Lutolf became scientific director of the newly established Roche Institute for Translational Bioengineering in Basel, Switzerland.^[5]

Lutolf's laboratory develops in vitro organoids mimicking healthy and diseased tissues and organs.^{[2] [11][12] [13][14] [15] [16][17]}

In 2007, Lutolf received the European Young Investigator (EURYI) Award by the European Science Foundation.^[18] Since 2018, he is elected as member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).^[19] He serves as associate editor of The Company of Biologists' journal Development.^[20]

• Hofer M, Lutolf MP (May 2021). "Engineering organoids". Nature Reviews. Materials. 6 (5): 402–420. Bibcode:2021NatRM...6..402H. doi:10.1038/s41578-021-00279-y. PMC 7893133. PMID 33623712.
• Lutolf, M P; Hubbell, J A (January 2005). "Synthetic biomaterials as instructive extracellular microenvironments for morphogenesis in tissue engineering". Nature Biotechnology. 23 (1): 47–55. doi:10.1038/nbt1055. ISSN 1087-0156. PMID 15637621. S2CID 6706970.

• Matthias Lütolf publications indexed by Google Scholar
• Website of the Laboratory of Stem Cell Bioengineering