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On 17 June 2019 in Berlin (Germany) the Centre of Alternatives to Animal Testing-Europe held its information day on Biology-inspired Microphysiological Systems (MPS) to advance Medicines for Patients Benefit with key international experts from academia, regulatory agencies, and industry. CAAT-Europe coordinates transatlantic activities aimed at... Read more

The IMI Stakeholder Forum 2019 took place on Wednesday 12 June in Brussels, Belgium. The theme was "Brain health and disease in the digital era - 2020 & beyond" For this event, IMI brought together European academics, representatives of multiple industry sectors (pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, digital, imaging),... Read more

Close to a hundred academics and industrialists working in the field of Organ-on-Chip technology came to Queen Mary University of London on 8 & 9 April, for a learning and collaborative event organized by the Organ-on-Chip Technologies Network. hDMT was represented by Managing Director Janny van den Eijnden - van Raaij who presented a... Read more

PRESS RELEASE The founding phase is complete: the European Organ-on-Chip Society (EUROoCS) is now welcoming members to join. The annual conference, held this year in Graz (Austria), saw launch of the community website and the start of its availability as an information resource. "We invite scientists, engineers, as well as... Read more

Regina Luttge brings together expertise to put brains on a chip. 'My challenge is to facilitate the growth of cells in a particular space,' says Regina Luttge. As associate professor within the microsystems section and head of the neuro-nanoscale engineering group at the Technical University of Eindhoven, she coordinates the ... Read more

Prof. dr. Cisca Wijmenga has been awarded the 2019 award of European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG). She receives the prize for her pioneering work in developing and applying innovative systems genetics approaches towards understanding complex diseases such as celiac disease and type 2 diabetes. Her research and the results are recognized as... Read more

NWO, domain Applied and Engineering Sciences, has awarded hDMT PI Klazina Kooiman from the Erasmus MC, department Cardiogy, a VIDI grant worth 800.000 euro for the research project The missing link in bubble therapy. For investigating the mechanism, she also uses her Vessel-on-Chip research. Miniature gas bubbles have the potential to locally... Read more

The EUROoC project for advancing Organ-on-a-chip technology in Europe proudly presented its first EUROoC newsletter (20th May 2019). The primary aim of the EUROoC network is the interdisciplinary training of young scientists. In this network, academic and industry scientists from all over Europe that are experts in various disciplines pool... Read more

We are extremely proud that our hDMT PI Prof. of Genetics Cisca Wijmenga has been appointed as the next Rector Magnificus of the University of Groningen. She is the first female Rector to be appointed in the 405-year history of the University. Cisca Wijmenga will succeed Elmer Sterken, who is stepping down as Rector Magnificus and... Read more

The Association of Dutch Health Foundations (SGF) and the Top Sector Life Sciences & Health (LSH) have made € 3.2 million PPP Allowance (financial resources for public-private partnerships) available for the development of Human Measurement Models. This call is being made in collaboration with ZonMw and NWO Domain Applied and... Read more

Start-up BI/OND has won the Philips Innovation Award 2019. At Theater Rotterdam, the young researchers received a cheque (50.000 euros) which was awarded by jury chairman Frans van Houten, CEO of Philips. BI/OND, a spin-off company from Delft University of Technology and very active within hDMT, mimics organ cells on computer chips and thus... Read more

Six consortia are in the latest round of ambitious proposals for European flagships, billion-euro research projects intended to run for 10 years. The consortium, called LifeTime, is one of the six candidates and aims to use three emerging technologies-machine learning, the study of single cells, and lab-grown organlike tissues called... Read more

TNO, hDMT partner, has started a unique collaboration with Stichting Proefdiervrij and the biopharmaceutical company Galapagos. This initiative investigates whether it is possible to make the development of medicines more efficient and at the same time use fewer laboratory animals, by cleverly linking different technologies. The initiative... Read more

Speeding up the development of Organ-on-Chip technology by bringing together all stakeholders at an early stage. That's the mission of Janny van den Eijnden - van Raaij, who is co-founder of the new European Organ-on-Chip Society. Mimicking a human organ on a chip is a relatively new field in science. In this field biologists and... Read more

On the 28th of March representatives from the ECSEL JU and IMI Joint undertakings met at their headquarters in Brussels to discuss topics of mutual interest. ECSEL Joint Undertaking is a public-private partnership, funding innovation in electronic components and systems, while IMI is funding health research and innovation. The... Read more

BI/OND, the Eindhoven University of Technology (Dr. Nicholas Kurniawan) and the University of Luxembourg (Dr. Silvia Bolognin and Prof. Jens Schwamborn) have received funding from the TKI-Life Sciences&Health (LSH) through the programme 'Health~Holland International (HHINT) Kickstarter for public-private partnerships. The... Read more

hDMT researcher Jaap den Toonder of the Eindhoven University of Technology has received an Advanced Grant of 3 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC). He will develop vibrating artificial cilia to study and better understand the effect of forces and flows on cells and tissues. Almost every process in biology is based on... Read more

hDMT researchers Bastien Venzac and Séverine Le Gac from the University of Twente together with Flemming Cassee from RIVM received a grant from ZonMw for the development of a new lung-on-chip system. Plastic microfibers originating from, for example, synthetic clothing, furniture, and carpets, end up in the air. This means... Read more

On Tuesday 19 March 2019 a one-day Organ-on-Chip symposium was organized by dr. Ben Maoz and dr. Gad Vatine at the Tel Aviv University (TAU) in Israel. It was a lively meeting divided in four parts: Cancer/Metabolism, Vasculature, Technologies and Lab on Chip. Some 150 attendants watched new work presented in oral presentations and posters,... Read more

The proposal of the team of Heleen Middelkamp, Mees de Graaf and Aisen de Sá Vivas entitled 3D Blood Vessels-on-Chip Cultured Under Flow has won the hDMT Junior Researchers Challenges Call 2019. During the third annual hDMT Consortium Meeting, the hDMT Junior Researchers Challenges Call 2019 was launched. The purpose of the call is to... Read more

In the Dutch newspaper Eindhovens Dagblad hDMT managing director Janny van den Eijnden - van Raaij explains the role of Organ-on-Chip technology for health care and drug research. Better medicine through chip technology Organs-on-chip are considered a great promise in the medical world. Janny van den Eijnden - van Raaij from Eindhoven... Read more

An article in the Dutch journal Bionieuws that tells about animal-free research with Organ-on-Chips starring Nikolas Gaio, Herman Koëter, Jan van der Valk, tells also about the leading role of the Netherlands in this field by initiatives as hDMT and NOCI. Bionieuws: Computer chip as a laboratory animal Organs-on-chips, or... Read more

The first edition of the two-day conference 'Life-on-Chip - The Road from Idea to Reality' in the Provincial House in Leuven was attended by more than 140 international participants, speakers and exhibitors. The participants were all players from the Health/Life Sciences and micro- and nanotechnology sectors. During the... Read more

The International Scientific Committee for WC11 has been formed and had its first brainstorm meeting just before Christmas last year. The four themes Safety, Disease, Innovative technologies and Ethics, welfare and regulatory affairs were discussed, resulting in an extensive list of topics per theme. Among the many topics are... Read more

Following up on the ORCHID Vision workshop, the ORCHID Strategy workshop was held in Leiden, the Netherlands on 17 January 2019. 32 experts from academia, innovation hubs, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry, patient organizations, ethics school, biotech companies and regulatory agencies attended the workshop. They represented developers, end... Read more