On September 8th 2023 Heleen Middelkamp successfully defended her PhD thesis about microfluidic vessels-on-chips for vascular disease modelling at the University of Twente. She carried out her research within the Netherlands Organ-on-Chip Initiative (NOCI) under the supervision of Albert van den Berg and Andries van der Meer from the University of Twente. Heleen will continue her work in the Organ-on-Chip community in the team and under the auspices of hDMT as research assistant for the NXTGEN Hightech One-Stop-Shop project. Furthermore, she started as support coordinator for the European Organ-on-Chip Society (EUROoCS).
