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SMART OoC First-generation Starter Kit Demo Day

After two years the SMART OoC (Standardized open Modular Approach to Recapitulate Tissues) project has reached an important milestone.

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MDR Young Talent Award for Mohammad Jouybar

Mohammad Jouybar, PhD candidate at Microsystems section, Eindhoven University of Technology, was among the winners of the (MDR) Young Talent Incentives-2024! His proposal ‘Immunotypic on-chip model for investigating CAR-T cell therapy’, will focus on generating an immunotypic vessel-on-chip model to study tumor vasculature targeting CAR-T cell therapy.

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Thesis Dennis Nahon (LUMC): Modeling vascular disease using self-assembling human induced pluripotent stem cell derivatives in 3D Vessels-on-Chip

On June 26th Dennis Nahon successfully defended his thesis, entitled ‘Modeling vascular disease using self-assembling human induced pluripotent stem cell derivatives in 3D Vessels-on-Chip’ at Leiden University.

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LUMC researchers develop a self-assembling 3D vessel-on-chip model with hiPSC-derived astrocytes

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is formed through direct interactions between endothelial cells (ECs), pericytes, and astrocytes in the central nervous system. BBB dysfunction is increasingly recognized as a contributor to multiple neurodegenerative diseases.

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EUROoCS 2024 Awards for hDMT Researchers

We are thrilled to announce that 2 hDMT researchers, Henrique Nogueira Pinto and Andrew Morrison from Amsterdam UMC were honoured with awards for their outstanding work presented at the conference.

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Reflecting on EUROoCS 2024: A Milestone Event for hDMT Partners

The EUROoCS Conference 2024, held from 3-5 July 2024 at Politecnico di Milano in Milan (Italy), was an energetic event showcasing the latest developments in the Organ-on-Chip (OoC) field

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Launch international Organ-on-Chip Standardization Roadmap at EUROoCS 2024 – First Step Towards ISO Standard?

On the first day of the conference of the European Organ-on-Chip Society (EUROoCS) from July 3-5 2024 in Milan, the international Organ-on-Chip Standardization Roadmap has officially been launched.

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Wanted: experts in the Organ-on-Chip field

The study aims to gather insights from experts across various fields to understand the current landscape, challenges, and opportunities within this innovative area of research and application.

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MicroPhysio conference on “Micro-physiological models

The 2nd edition of the MicroPhysio conference on “Micro-physiological models: From organoids to organs-on-chip” will take place at the CNRS center in Cargèse (www.iesc.univ-corse.fr) from September 23rd to September 27th, 2024.

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Summerschool Utrecht University- 3D Printing and Biofabrication

Additive manufacturing (3D printing) uses a layer-by-layer principle for manufacturing. This one-week course will provide an insight into the opportunities of additive manufacturing technologies and 3D (bio)printing in biomedical applications.

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