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UMCG will make research facilities available for drug development

To improve the availability and effectiveness of medicines in the Netherlands, the UMCG is going to set up the company G2 Solutions.

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Personalized intestine-on-chip successfully emulates the human small intestine

A new study from the Immunogenetics group of the Department of Genetics at UMCG, led by Sebo Withoff and Iris Jonkers, shows that human iPSCs can be developed into an in vitro model that resembles the small intestine,

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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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