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Prof. dr. Hans Clevers wins the Keio Medical Science Prize 2019 for his groundbreaking work on stem cells and organoids. The Keio University in Japan annually awards this prize. Clevers receives the award for his research into a molecular process named the Wnt pathway. The process plays a crucial role in the development of stem cells and... Read more

At the annual Science Open Day, Sunday October 6th at Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC), Laura Windt - PhD student in Prof. Dr. Christine Mummery's lab - held a talk on a potential solution to that question: Organ-on-Chip containing personalized stem cells. Windt explained how Organ-on-Chip research is step-by-step beginning... Read more

Prof. Christine Mummery, Dr. Franck Lebrin and Dr. Valeria Orlova, members of the hDMT Vessel-on-Chip Theme Group, together with doctors at St Antonius Hospital in Nieuwegein, receive a grant for research into Rendu Osler Weber's disease. The sum of 500,000 euros comes from ZonMw's Translational Research programme. The researchers... Read more

The Lush Prize offers a global prize fund to support initiatives to end or replace animal testing. The prestigious prize fund of at least £250,000 is available across five categories: Lobbying, Training, Public Awareness, Science, and Young Researchers. A sixth category, known as the 'Black Box' prize, also provides the possibility... Read more

Nature published in News in Focus (1 October 2019) that India is one of the latest countries joining a growing wave of nations looking at emerging technologies like organs-on-chip as alternatives for the use of animals in research. The technologies that model human organs and diseases are fast improving and becoming reliable models for testing... Read more

In the Dutch newspaper NRC, chair of hDMT and Professor of Developmental Biology Christine Mummery tells about miniature hearts, made of stem cells and microchips, for research into heart failure and other diseases. Additional advantages of such a miniature organ: less animal testing and cheaper medicines. Source: NRC Een hart zo groot... Read more

Researchers at Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC), partner of hDMT, have for the first time succeeded in measuring the three most important physical features of a beating cardiac cell: contraction, electrical action potential and calcium flux, simultaneously in the laboratory. Taken together, these properties cause the cardiac cell to beat,... Read more

Horizon 2020 FET-Open project Organ-on-Chip In Development (ORCHID GA #766884) is close to completion. On 23 September 2019 the achievements of ORCHID and future perspectives were discussed during a dynamic interactive final ORCHID meeting in Leiden, the Netherlands. 35 participants from 14 different countries, including scientists from... Read more

The first annual conference of the European Organ-on-Chip Society (EUROoCS) in Graz in Austria on the 2nd and 3rd of July this year was a great success. The impressive old campus of the Graz University of Technology, with its nice Lecture Hall and the historic Aula in EUROoCS colors, was filled with 214 enthusiastic participants from 18... Read more

Delft University of Technology and hDMT welcomes Dr. Angelo Accardo, who joined the Department of Precision and Microsystems Engineering (PME) at TU Delft as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Soft Micro- and Nanosystem Technology for Life Sciences and Biology since June 1st 2019. During his PhD and Post-doctoral activity, Angelo... Read more

The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and hDMT partner Amsterdam UMC organize a symposium on 25 November 2019 about Animal-Free Innovations in Science. One of the themes is Organ-on-Chip technology. The goal is to bring together scientists from different disciplines in an open and constructive setting to discuss the challenges in animal-free... Read more

The Dutch Transition Program for Innovative animal-free research (TPI) invites scientists, entrepreneurs, research funders, regulators and policymakers, to share their innovative practices and policies that can improve human health and safety whilst making animal testing redundant. The main objective of the international... Read more

The annual Sartorius and Science Prize for Regenerative Medicine and Cell Therapy is geared towards researchers focused on basic or translational research that advances regenerative medicine and cell therapy. The initiators are looking forward to receiving your application before 1 October 2019. Eligible fields: Entries accepted from the... Read more

The Topsector Hightech Systems and Materials and TKI HTSM organizes the HiTMaT call (Connecting High Tech PPP in Social Themes); an open call in which scientists can win an amount of € 25,000 in seed money in order to link high-tech research innovations to social themes, in collaboration with at least one entrepreneur, in an elaboration... Read more

During the closing ceremony of the first EUROoCS conference in Graz on 2 and 3 July 2019, a number of young scientists received an award. Travel Awards were offered to promote the participation of students and selected from the submitted abstracts by peer-review. The Best Poster Awards were elected by voting of all participants in the... Read more

The Top Sector Life Sciences & Health (LSH) invests 2.76 million euros in Dutch Organ-on-Chip research through their dedicated HHOOCS call. Seven projects have been awarded, in which knowledge institutes, companies and the Dutch Society for the Replacement of Animal Testing join forces to develop proof-of-concept Organ-on-Chip models.... Read more

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