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COMBATing Dengue with Brain-on-Chip Technology

Together with nine international partners, OrganoVIR Labs (Amsterdam UMC) will participate in a new Horizon RIA project.

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SNF research collaboration grant for the University of Twente and Freiburg University (Switzerland)

Researchers Séverine Le Gac, Julieta Paez (both UTwente) and Albert Ruggi (Université de Fribourg) have received a SNF grant (from the Swiss National Fund) entitled “Multi-parametric sensing synthetic hydrogels. Application to organ-on-chip modeling”.

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Several awards for TU Delft delegation at the 50th edition of the International Conference on Micro- and Nano Engineering

Awards for three researchers from TU Delft (group Angelo Accardo) during the 50th MNE conference in Montpellier from 16-19 September 2024:

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LUMC Best Thesis Prize 2024 Non Clinical – Margo Tuerlings

For her thesis entitled: ‘The Bone and Cartilage Interplay in Osteoarthritis: Key to Effective Treatment Strategy’

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Giulia Moreni (Amsterdam UMC) wins Hugo van Poelgeest Award 2024

‘A promising researcher, with an eye for the individual patient and the individual animal.’ With these words, Giulia Moreni was crowned scientist of the future on November 15, 2024.

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Using microfluidic technology to study age-induced Parkinson’s phenotypes

Vienna University of Technology, University of Bonn, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) joined forces to develop a new model of Parkinson's disease

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PhD Thesis Gabriele Addario: Biofabrication platforms: Advanced 3D (bio)printed models for the study of kidney fibrosis

On November 6th 2024, Gabriele Addario successfully defended his PhD thesis at Maastricht University, the MERLN institute.

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Thesis Lena Sophie Koch: ‘The Gut-Brain Axis to unravel Inter-Tissue Interactions’

On October 31st 2024 Lena Sophie Koch successfully defended her thesis at University of Twente. The project was supervised by Prof. Broersen and Prof Passier.

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Successfully completed Master thesis by Maaike Molendijk at the Meulenbelt Osteoarthritis Research group (LUMC)

“The Effect of Hyper-Physiological Mechanical Loading on an Osteochondral Microfluidic Organ-on-a-Chip Model and Shear Modulus of Cartilage Organoids”.

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Thesis Zaid Rahman on 3D in vitro Cancer Models

On October 2nd, 2024, Zaid Rahman successfully defended his thesis at Delft University of Technology under the supervision of promotor Dr. Pouyan E Boukany and Prof. Dr. Valeria Garbin.

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