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Francisco Conceição joins UTwente for osteoporosis modelling by Bone-on-Chip

Dr. Francisco Conceição joined the Advanced Organ bioengineering and Therapeutics department, at the University of Twente, as a post-doctoral fellow, as of 15 August 2022. Francisco obtained an integrated MSc degree in Bioengineering from the University of Porto (Portugal).

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George Flamourakis new postdoc in TU Delft

George Flamourakis recently acquired his PhD in Multiphoton Polymerization and Tissue Engineering at Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser and University of Crete, Greece. There, he specialized in the fabrication of complex 3D mechanical metamaterial micro- structures that were later used as scaffolds for tissue engineering applications. As of October 2022 he joined the research group of Angelo Accardo as a postdoc and he is involved in the fabrication and super-resolution imaging of polymeric structures for the development of neuronal growth cones. This work is funded by both a 3mE Cohesion grant and a NWO-XS grant in collaboration with Daan...

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Honorary Doctorate for Sabeth Verpoorte from Tampere University

Sabeth Verpoorte from UMCG: It was as wonderful as it was humbling to receive a Doctor Honoris Causa from Tampere University, “in recognition of work on lab-on-a-chip and organ-on-a-chip research as well as of long-standing interdisciplinary collaboration.” It was also an incredible honour to speak on behalf of all of the 14 honorary doctors! New hat, new friends, new experience! Unforgettable! Tampere University’s honorary doctorate laureate programme recognises world-class research and education focusing on technology, health and society. In the framework of this programme, Sabeth Verpoorte has been awarded an honorary doctorate for her work on lab-on-a-chip and organ-on-a-chip research as well...

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NWO M2 grant ‘LivMetOoC’ for UTwente and Erasmus MC about liver metastasis in a dish

NWO Exact and Natural Sciences has honored twenty-six applications in the Open Competition Science-ENW-M. These grants are intended for innovative, fundamental research of high quality and/or scientific urgency. One of the awarded projects is the project ‘Elucidating how tumor cells build the pre-metastatic liver niche using an advanced liver sinusoid organ-on-chip model – LivMetOoC’ by Séverine Le Gac from the University of Twente together with Wytske van Weerden from Erasmus MC. Two PhD students will bring together the expertise of both groups to develop a micro-liver to investigate which factors play a role in liver metastases. Liver metastasis is a...

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NWO OTP grant ‘SUSTAINER’ for TU Delft about engineered biomaterials for use as cell scaffolds

Gijsje Koenderink of the Bionanoscience Department of TU Delft received an OTP grant from NWO-TTW, together with Jean Marc Daran of the Biotechnology Department of TU Delft. The grant entitled SUSTAINER: Sustainable production of structural proteins for medical and nutritional applications’ aims at the production of extracellular matrix-mimicking biomaterials suitable as cell scaffolds. Current biomaterials are mainly made from animal-derived proteins, limiting their customizability and raising environmental, health and cultural concerns. This project brings together synthetic biologists, materials scientists and companies active in food and biomedical technology with the aim to generate microbial cell factories based on yeast capable of...

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Best scientific micrograph prize for Ahmed Sharaf

Ahmed Sharaf, PhD student in the group of Angelo Accardi (TU Delft), was awarded the best scientific micrograph prize at 48th international Micro and Nanoengineering Conference in Leuven. For more informations about the awards click here.

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Spotlight on animal-free innovations at VU and Amsterdam UMC

Researchers at VU Amsterdam and Amsterdam UMC are working on new methods of research that will reduce animal testing. It’s all part of the initiative Transition to Animal-Free Innovations Amsterdam (TPI Amsterdam). New images from the lab give us a good view of their work. One participant, Professor Bas Teusink (systems biology, VU Amsterdam), is mapping out cell metabolism in order to better predict chemical reactions. While Professor Sue Gibbs (skin and mucosa regenerative medicine, Amsterdam UMC and the Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA)) is pioneering the use of skin organoids in the lab: real living skin tissue, which can be used...

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Radboudumc researchers develop human kidney organoids for personalized congenital nephrotic syndrome modeling

Congenital nephrotic syndrome (CNS) is a hallmark of glomerular disease and the result of a defect in specialized cells (podocytes) within the kidney structures that filter the blood (glomeruli). CNS is characterized by massive proteinuria and infants present clinical symptoms early in life, or even before birth. CNS survival prognosis is poor. Patients typically develop end-stage kidney disease between 2 and 8 years old and kidney transplantation is the only effective treatment option available. Podocytes play an important role in the glomerular filtration barrier. Podocytes possess interdigitating foot processes that are bridged by a protein complex called the slit diaphragm,...

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hDMT Consortium Meeting Registration and Abstract submission

All hDMT members are invited to attend the 6th annual hDMT Consortium Meeting, on Friday 25th of November 2022 at the Eenhoorn Meeting Center Amersfoort – STUDIO33 (opposite to the main entrance of Amersfoort CS). The hDMT consortium meeting is a closed meeting, exclusively for all researchers who are actively involved in hDMT research, from student to professor, with the aim of getting to know each other and to learn what is going on in hDMT – with a few keynote lectures, a lot of floor time for our junior researchers and ample time for networking. For registration and abstract...

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The EPAA European Partnership for Alternatives (EPAA3Rs) 2022 3Rs Science Prize is open for submissions.

The 3Rs science prize is granted every two years to a scientist with an outstanding contribution to 3Rs. We want to promote positive contributions from industry or academia and encourage more scientists to focus their research on the 3Rs goals. Scientists working on relevant methods for regulatory testing (e.g. safety, efficacy, batch testing) providing an outstanding contribution to the use of the 3Rs may apply for the prize. The EPAA European Partnership for Alternatives (EPAA3Rs) 2022 3Rs Science Prize is open for submissions. For more information and how to apply see here. Source: https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/calls-expression-interest/3rs-science-prize-2022-call-submissions_en

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