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The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) and the
European Organ-on-Chip Society (EUROoCS) announced Stem
Cell Reports, the ISSCR's online, open-access, peer-reviewed
journal, will serve as the "home" journal for EUROoCS member
publications that focus on the use and application of stem cells.
This alliance...
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The 2nd edition of the
Annual EUROoCS (European Organ-on-Chip Society) Conference was very
different from the one held before. Instead of sunny summer days in
Uppsala, Sweden, COVID-19 put EUROoCS 2020 into our own offices and
homes. EUROoCS 2020 went virtual and in a remarkably short space of
time.
The organizing committee transformed the...
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The Microsystems group
of hDMT PI Jaap den Toonder welcomes Mohammad Jouybar as a PhD
candidate. The Cancer-on-Chip research group of Microsystems at the
Eindhoven University of Technology tries to recapitulate the cancer
microenvironment on microfluidic devices, and effectively study the
cancer metastasis on them.
Jouybar is starting to work...
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Last June 2020, the ECSEL Joint Undertaking
Moore4Medical kicked off with the overarching objective to
accelerate innovation in electronic medical devices.
Led by Philips and
masterminded by professor Ronald Dekker (Philips Research, and ECTM
group TU Delft), Moore4Medical will run for three years and will
address emerging medical...
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On 25 and 26 August 2020, the 11th World Congress on
Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences organized two 1.5
h webinars on 3Rs in COVID-19 research. On both days,
several excellent presentations highlighted innovative model
systems to study COVID-19, and also discussed new strategies for
the development of vaccines, therapeutics and...
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Prof. Dr. Pieter Hiemstra and Dr. Anne van der Does of the
Pulmonary Diseases Department of Leiden University Medical Centre,
a hDMT partner, received a grant of 500,000 euros from ZonMw and
the Stichting Proefdiervrij. The money will be used to research the
pulmonary epithelium at Covid-19 and to develop a Fibrosis
Lung-on-Chip.
The...
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In the past few weeks the organizers of 11th World
Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences have
asked several people to answer the question: "Is there a
role for the 3Rs in COVID-19 research?". In the recent
newsletter 5, hDMT PI Katja Wolthers and hDMT
chair Christine Mummery answered the question.
Katja...
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During the online
cluster meeting 'Components' organized by FHI, Industrial
Electronics on Wednesday 2 September 2020, Dr Janny van den
Eijnden-van Raaij, Managing director hDMT (Dutch Organ-on-Chip
Consortium) will take you on a journey through the developments of
Organ-op-Chip technology. In this cluster, members of FHI discuss
market...
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The ECSEL Joint Undertaking Moore4Medical kicked off
last June 2020 with the overarching objective to accelerate
innovation in electronic medical devices. Moore4Medical is
masterminded by hDMT PI professor Ronald Dekker
(Philips Research & ECTM) and sees important involvement and vast
opportunities for TU Delft's Microelectronics...
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During the 2nd edition of the Annual EUROoCS
(European Organ-on-Chip Society) Conference on 8th and
9th of July (due to COVID-19 held online) prizes were
awarded for the Best Presentation Young Investigator Awards, the
Best Presentation Senior Investigator Award and the Best Poster
Awards. Dutch hDMT researcher Joram Mooiweer from the
University...
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EUROoCS 2021
Next year the EUROoCS conference will take place in Uppsala in
Sweden on 1st and 2nd of July 2021. The
conference chair is Maria Tenje from Uppsala University. Let's hope
that by that time the COVID-19 pandemic is over.
1 and 2 July 2021
Please save the date!
Maria Tenje (Uppsala University)
Conference...
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CAAT and several other
organizations are planning a World Conference on Microphysiological
Systems (MPS) to be held in Baltimore/DC (USA) in the Fall 2021.
Please share with them your input via
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DW5M3KQ.
Thank you for your help!
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The NC3Rs is currently
running a survey targeted to end-users of organ-on-a-chip
technology. The aim of the survey is to gather information on the
current use and application of the technology, provide insight into
the impacts on the 3Rs and to help inform the NC3Rs' future
strategy in this area.
If you are currently using, considering...
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hDMT chair Christine
Mummery of Leiden University Medical Center is the new president of
the ISSCR Board of Directors. Mummery's term of office leading the
Society has started as of 1 July 2020. She will serve as ISSCR
president for one year, succeeding Deepak Srivastava, Gladstone
Institutes, USA.
"I am thrilled to take on this...
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On 25 and 26
August 2020 at 3 PM CET, the 11th World Congress on
Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Science will organize two
1.5 h webinars on 3Rs in COVID-19 research. On
both days, several excellent presentations will highlight
innovative model systems to study COVID-19, and will also discuss
new strategies for the development of...
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In U-Today, an independent journalistic medium at the
University of Twente (UT), hDMT PI Andries van der Meer talks about
plans to use Organ-on-Chips for covid-19 research, together with
researchers from Leiden, among others. Their connections within the
hDMT consortium inspired them to work together on this new
challenge.
Does the
old...
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Not only the lungs but in some cases also the heart of a
patient can be seriously damaged by COVID-19. The cause of this is
still unclear. By exposing heart tissue on an 'organ-on-chip' to
both the virus and the medication used, fast and personalized
evaluation of the causes is possible, including possible remedies.
The TechMed...
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hDMT PI Regina Luttge
coordinates CONNECT, a Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
project, which aims at providing better treatment for
neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease and
Alzheimer's disease. In this regard, she was interviewed on the
integration of the principles of microfluidics, tissue engineering
and...
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NanoNextNL has
published an English version of the manifesto NanoVision 2030
containing an additional chapter on cooperation in research in the
current corona era.
Nanovision 2030 is a multi-year plan for the knowledge and
innovation agenda around the key enabling technology,
nanotechnology, for solving societal challenges. This aligns
with...
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The Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) will start
construction this year of the largest non-profit stem cell and gene
therapy facility in the Netherlands, and one of the largest
facilities in Europe. NECSTGEN - the Netherlands Center for the
Clinical Advancement of Stem Cell and Gene Therapies - will support
research in the area...
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Researchers from
Leiden University Medical Center (group of hDMT PI Christine
Mummery, Milena Bellin and Valeria Orlova) developed a
microphysiological system that behaves as a "mini-heart" using
cardiomyocytes, endothelial cells and cardiac fibroblasts all
derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs). These
mini-hearts...
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Researchers from the University of Twente (group of hDMT PI
Severine Le Gac) and Radboudumc (group of Wouter Verdurmen) in
Nijmegen, created an easy-to-fabricate microfluidic device that
recapitulates essential features of the tumor environment including
hypoxia and an acidic tumor microenvironment. In particular, the
device mimics tumor...
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hDMT PI Angelo Accardo
of the Department of Precision and Microsystems Engineering (TU
Delft) receives, together with Mohammad Mirzaali of the Department
of Biomechanical Engineering (TU Delft), the 3mE Cohesion Grant of
200 k€ from Sectorplan funding.
Current orthopaedic implants suffer from insufficient
osseointegration rate in ageing...
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Ahmed Sharaf recently joined the group of hDMT PI Angelo
Accardo, Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology,
Department of Precision and Microsystems Engineering (PME). He is
going to work on Light-assisted 3D manufacturing of neuronal
microenvironments.
The continuous evolution
of additive manufacturing technologies opened a new...
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Scientists in Leiden are looking for signals in blood samples to
predict whether patients will develop serious COVID-19 symptoms or
not. Based on that knowledge, they will be able to propose targeted
therapies to prevent serious symptoms. They hope to come up with
the first results within the week.
Traces of diseases in the body
...
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