Passant Atallah

Passant Atallah is an academic researcher affiliated with the Research Division of Polymer Biomaterials Science at USI Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, Switzerland. She specializes in biomaterials science, with a focus on developing innovative hydrogels and polymer-based systems for regenerative medicine, wound healing, and controlled drug delivery. Her work integrates polymer chemistry, cell biology, and biomedical engineering to design materials that modulate cellular behavior and tissue regeneration.

Her research interests include glycosaminoglycan sulfation patterns, cytokine-sequestering hydrogels, and the design of biohybrid materials that direct vascular and chondral tissue formation. Notably, she won the 2024 Biobusiness Award for her project on ResCure Dressing, an advanced wound dressing targeting inflammatory skin diseases. This work demonstrates her ability to translate fundamental research into clinically relevant solutions.

Key technical areas in her work involve tuning material properties (e.g., charge, sulfation) to control cytokine release/sequestration, modulate cell differentiation pathways, and create in vitro models for vascular morphogenesis. She has also developed starPEG-heparin hydrogels for sustained delivery of stem cell secretomes in CNS regeneration.

• Awards: Biobusiness Award 2024
• Key Projects: ResCure Dressing, chemokine-capturing wound layers, sulfation-patterned hydrogels
• Technical Expertise: Hydrogel fabrication, biomaterial-cell interactions, in vivo/in vitro testing of regenerative systems