Nicolas Rivron

KEYNOTE LECTURE: Embryogenesis reimagined: exploring the potential of artificial embryos in advancing reproductive technologies at Openning on Friday 12th April

Nicolas Rivron is a developmental biologist and tissue engineer. He leads the Laboratory for Blastoid Development and Implantation at the Institute for Molecular Biotechnologies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, Austria). His lab has developed a model of the pre-implantation conceptus formed through the self-organization of stem cells, which they called blastoid.

This embryo model implants in utero when formed with mouse stem cells and recapitulates aspects of implantation into in vitro cultured uterine cells when formed with human stem cells. His laboratory investigates the basic principles of self-organization and is interested in contributing to solving global health problems related to family planning and the developmental origin of health and disease.