Author Archives: hDMT

Thesis Gülden Ackay about Human-derived Brain-on-Chip Mechanotransduction model and its applications

On 19 November 2024 Gülden Ackay successfully defended her thesis at Eindhoven University of Technology under supervision of Prof Luttge and Prof den Toonder.

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TNO and University of Twente join forces for Twente chip industry

Overijssel and the Twente Board are each contributing 1.5 million euros to the Joint Innovation Centres of research institute TNO and the University of Twente.

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ZonMw program More Knowledge with Fewer Animals

In the Off Road 2025 grant round, the ZonMw program More Knowledge with Fewer Animals, together with the Dutch Society for the Replacement of Animal Testing, allocates €500,000 for the New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) investment module. This module is designed to encourage researchers to conduct their projects without animal testing, instead use animal-free research models, known as NAMs. Applicants can request an additional amount of up to €30,000 on top of the requested grant amount, to cover the costs associated with the development and/or use of NAMs.  More info here.

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ZonMW pre-announcement of new grant round Off Road 2025

Preparations for the new Off Road 2025 round have started. This new round will open on December 10, 2024, and the deadline for submitting grant applications is January 30, 2025, at 2:00 PM.

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2025 MPS World Summit: Call for Abstracts

The International MPS Society (iMPSS) and the European Organ-on-Chip Society (EUROoCS) join forces to organize the MPS World Summit in Brussels (Belgium) from 9-13 June 2025.

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The importance of standardization: role of NEN in the NXTGEN Hightech Biomed program

NEN is actively involved in the Biomed projects of the NXTGEN Hightech Growth Fund program, because standardization is the instrument that makes the world understandable, helps to remove trade barriers and contributes to a single international language.

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Thesis Hande Aydogmus: ‘Integrated Sensors for Organ-on-Chip Platforms’

On September 23rd 2024 Hande Aydogmus successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled ‘Integrated Sensors for Organ-on-Chip Platforms’ at Delft University of Technology.

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Thesis Ulgu Arslan-van Bergen about cardiac microtissue models

On September 24th, 2024 Ulgu Arslan-van Bergen successfully defended her thesis entitled ‘hiPSC-derived 3D cardiac microphysiological systems that can integrate immune and vascular components’

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Experts wanted for Dutch Standards Committee Microphysiological Systems and Organ-on-Chip

Call for hDMT researchers, Biomed NXTGEN Hightech partners and other experts in the Netherlands to contribute to the Dutch Standards Committee Microphysiological Systems and Organ-on-Chip.

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ESA’s Exploration Science Programme: Advancing Knowledge, Inspiring Innovation 

DESCRIPTION OF THIS OPPORTUNITY  To ensure crew safety for long-duration missions beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO), we need to further characterise, monitor, and address the physiological challenges identified in LEO research programmes as we aim for more remote destinations. These goals could benefit from the use of advanced models that better mimic human physiology, and supplements or replaces any animal experimentation. As such, tissue chip or organoid models may provide this technological breakthrough. These models are revolutionising the medicine and pharmacology fields, by providing more accurate human tissue analogues for drug testing and disease modelling. Organoids have been instrumental in...

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