Category Archives: News

George Galaris joined LACDR and TNO to further 3D spheroid-based Liver-on-Chip research

In January 2021, George Galaris joined the Metabolic Health Research group at TNO, location Leiden, and the Division of Drug Discovery & Safety at Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research......

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€ 4.8 million grant for revolutionary modular and standardized SMART OoC platform

NWO has awarded the prestigious Perspectief grant to a multidisciplinary team of 10 researchers affiliated with hDMT. The € 4.8 million grant makes it possible to take the next much......

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Recording of the Workshop on Microphysiological Systems: Bridging Human and Animal Research is now available for viewing.

The recording of the Workshop on Microphysiological Systems (MPS): Bridging Human and Animal Research that was held on January 19-20, 2021 is now available for viewing. You can watch the recording here....

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Organ-on-Chip and the 3R Virtual Lab Tour EUROoC ITN

15 PhD students give you a virtual lab tour in 11 laboratories involved in the International Training Network, where they are working on finding alternatives to reduce animal testing. You......

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Sofia Gomez starts on further development of Heart-on-Chip platform

PhD student Sofia Gomez joined the group of hDMT PI Dr Ye Wang and Prof Jaap den Toonder at Eindhoven University of Technology in January 2021, to work on the......

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Tedesco Group winner of #OOCtransition Initiative of Bi/ond

Last November, Bi/ond, the Organ-on-Chip startup based in Delft, launched the #OOCtransition initiative to promote and accelerate the development of Organ-on-Chip models with the potential to reduce and replace animal......

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1 million euros for corona research and metabolomics

Can we predict beforehand which of the Covid-19 patients will develop critical symptoms? hDMT PI Professor Thomas Hankemeier, together with a diverse consortium of universities, academic hospitals and industrial partners,......

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FDA Report on Advancing Alternative Methods

The FDA’s Alternative Methods Working Group recently published the report Advancing Newe Alternative Methods at FDA. In the report you can read about the activities FDA scientists are undertaking to......

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NWA-ORC grant for Virtual Human Platform for Safety Assessment

In the second round of the Dutch Research Agenda Program: Research along routes by Consortia (NWA-ORC) the project Virtual Human Platform for Safety Assessment receives a grant of 9.9 million......

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NWA-ORC grant for Organ-on-Chip models with integrated lymphatics

A 5 million Euro NWA-ORC grant was awarded to hDMT researchers to develop immunocompetent human Organ-on-Chip models with integrated lymph drainage for drug discovery and testing (LymphChip). The project is......

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