The bachelor program Biology and Medical Laboratory Research from the University of Applied Sciences Leiden offers a minor Regenerative medicine development, in collaboration with companies located within the Leiden BioScience Park. This year, the Leiden Centre for Applied Bioscience (LCAB), the research institute of the Faculty of Science & Technology provided 5 students the opportunity to get acquainted with the gut-on-chip OrganoPlate model. After an introductory training at Mimetas, the students continued their Caco-2 cell cultures in the cell culture laboratory of the University of Applied Sciences Leiden. They investigated which additional preparations will be required to successfully apply OrganoPlates in research and educational projects in the near future. One of their recommendations is to invest in a multi-channel adapter for the vacuum aspirator to minimize the time for medium changes.
Four of the students who cultured Caco-2 cells in Organoplates provided by Dorota Kurek (Mimetas) on an OrganoFlow provided by the Peters group (Human Genetics, LUMC)
