A/P Vinicius Rosa
Vinicius
ROSA

Matter, technology and life by design.

Reimagining how we design materials, model biology and regenerate oral tissues.

The premise

Designing the materials that should exist.

Most materials are chosen from what already exists, then adapted to the problem. The more powerful question runs the other way: what material should exist to produce the response the biology needs — and how do we bring it into being? Pursuing that question means treating matter, biology and computation as one system, and using data, AI and living models to turn a biological specification into real matter — a material defined by the outcome it serves, not by what was already available.

An integrated method

One connected system, from matter to living tissue.

A single loop links what a material is made of to the biology it produces — each stage feeding the next.

01 · Predict

Use data and AI to design biomaterials with target properties.

02 · Build

Engineer biomaterials, scaffolds and living matrices.

03 · Test

Validate biological response in human-relevant, tissue-mimicking systems.

04 · Translate

Turn the resulting technologies into oral-health innovation.

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IADR 2026
Recognised innovation
Innovation in Oral Care Award · AI-enabled biomimetic hydrogels for dental-materials biosafety testing
Top 2%
Scientific impact
World’s most-cited scientists · consecutive Stanford–Elsevier rankings
ORCHIDS
Translational leadership
Director · Singapore’s translational oral-health research centre
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