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Join the joint hDMT-UMD symposium on metabolism and Organ-on-Chip

Registration and abstract submission is open. On April 13, 2022 hDMT and UMD (United for Metabolic Diseases) organize a joint symposium about the integration of metabolism & Organ-on-Chip models: Investigating metabolism in Organ-on-Chip models When: Wednesday April 13, 2022 Location: Radboudumc, Nijmegen Time: 10 am – 3 pm Participation is for free, but registration is required. Please register for the meeting by sending an email to e.thomassen@hdmt.technology at the latest on April 6, 2022. Details on the location will follow upon registration. Stem cell models offer a promising perspective to study the tissue-specific pathophysiology of Inborn Metabolic Disorders and novel treatments....

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Kick-off Meeting LymphChip

On February 15, 2022, in total 44 members of LymphChip participated representing the academic partners, co-financing partners and the Advisory Board. Plenary sessions were held to present the aims of LymphChip, to learn about the expectations and contributions from co-financing partners and to evaluate the impact plan, and future plans. In 3 consecutive breakout sessions technical requirements, biological platforms/disease models and the three on-chip-models for heart, intestine and skin/lymph node were discussed. Finally also the first plans for education and dissemination were presented. The Kick-off Meeting was organized in Spatial Chat in view of COVID-19 restrictions. Source: https://www.lymphchip.org/en/home/

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Abstract submision for EUROoCS 2022 now open

Abstract submission for EUROoCS 2022, held on 4-5 July 2022 in Grenoble France, is now open. Submitted abstracts will be selected either for an oral presentation or for the poster session. Submission: via https://euroocs2022.insight-outside.fr/abstracts/ Deadline for abstract submission:    15 April 2022 Deadline for abstract selection:        1 June 2022 Scientific program committee Xavier Gidrol (chair, CEA, France) Fabrice Navarro (chair, CEA, France) Dries Braeken (EUROoCS Board/ imec, Belgium) Madalena Cipriano (University of Tübingen, Germany) Stephanie Descroix (University of Paris Institut Curie, France) Suzy Fitzpatrick (EUROoCS Regulatory Advisory Board/FDA, USA) Jochen Kühnl (EUROoCS Industrial Advisory Board/Beiersdorf, Germany) Martin Raasch (EUROoCS...

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Summer schools

Learn from expert course leaders during interactive live sessions and engage in stimulating discussions with students and professionals from across the world who share your interests. Join the summer school community and expand your professional network! Radboud Summer School on Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. During the five-day course, you will gain a deep understanding of culture and pluripotency maintenance of induced pluripotent stem cells. You will learn how to culture, passage, select, freeze and thaw iPSCs, how to get rid of differentiating cell contamination in your iPSC culture and how to choose the correct passaging technique. You will have your...

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Marian Joëls new member supervisory board

Marian Joëls has joined the hDMT Supervisory Board from February 1st 2022. She is Dean and Board member of the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG).   Marian Joëls is a neuroscientist who investigates the effect of stress on the brain, in health and disease. In recent years her work particularly focused on the life-long consequences of early life adversity. In 1997 she was appointed as full professor at the University of Amsterdam. In 2009 she became scientific director of Brain Center Rudolf Magnus at the University Medical Center Utrecht. Since September 2016, she is professor of Neurobiology of Environmental Factors,...

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EUROoCS 2022 annual conference in Grenoble

After two online conferences in 2020 and 2021, this year the EUROoCS annual conference will take place as a face-to-face meeting in Grenoble (France) on 4-5 July 2022. The chairs Xavier Gidrol and Fabrice Navarro, together with the Scientific Program Committee and the local organizing committee, can’t wait to welcome you in the sunny Grenoble in summer. This conference will be a nice opportunity to meet your friends in person again, listen to exciting talks, chat with the poster presenters, and win one of the prestigious awards. Abstract submission will open soon. For all information about the conference please visit...

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Jaap den Toonder member of the hDMT Executive Board

Jaap den Toonder has joined the hDMT Executive Board from January 1st 2022. He is full professor and chair of the Microsystems section at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He received his master’s degree in applied mathematics in 1991 (cum laude), and his PhD degree in mechanical engineering in 1996 (cum laude), both from Delft University of Technology. In 1995, he joined Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, where he worked on a wide variety of applications. In 2008, he became chief technologist, leading the R&D programs on (micro-)fluidics and materials science and engineering. Next to his main job at Philips,...

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Maurits Unkel starts research on neuropsychiatric disorders at Erasmus MC.

Maurits Unkel joined the group of Steven Kushner and Femke de Vrij at Erasmus MC as PhD student from October 1st  2021. His research in the bioinformatics field will focus on complex data analysis of hiPSC-based models of neuropsychiatric disorders.

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ZonMW Psider grant for Erasmus MC on a stem cell-based neuronal platform for treatment of neurodevelopmental disorders

ZonMw has awarded a PSIDER grant to a consortium led by Steven Kushner and Ype Elgersma from Erasmus MC. The grant is entitled ‘Towards a human iPSC neuronal platform for neurodevelopmental disorder therapeutic discovery’ and is a collaborative project between researchers from Erasmus MC, LUMC, Radboudumc and UMC Utrecht. Children with a genetic developmental disorder often require lifelong care, which has a major impact on the lives of patients, loved ones and society. In this project researchers will try to find a solution by repairing the genetic mutation using so-called ‘antisense oligonucleotides’. The goal is to develop a platform for identifying...

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Thesis Bas Lendemeijer (Erasmus MC): Leveraging human induced pluripotent stem cells for modeling brain diseases

Bas Lendemeijer obtained the doctor’s degree after the public defence of his thesis entiteld ‘Leveraging human induced pluripotent stem cells for modeling brain diseases’ at Erasmus MC on October 5th 2021. Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-technology has created the ability to study the development of patient-derived neural cells in vitro and identify cellular phenotypes. The potential of this relatively new field has sparked great interest in the field of neuroscience and beyond. The work presented in this thesis attempts to improve the techniques to differentiate iPSCs towards cells of the neural lineage and demonstrates how these cells can be leveraged...

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