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Researchers at the MERLN Institute for Regenerative Medicine recently launched the Compendium for Biomaterial Transcriptomics (cBiT), a new worldwide research database for biomaterial-based trancriptomics studies. At MERLN, Prof. Jan de Boer leads a team of researchers who want to discover what happens in the cell when it... Read more

On 23 May 2018 31 experts from 14 countries, representing academia, industry, regulatory bodies and medical centers, met in a welcoming atmosphere at Fraunhofer IGB in Stuttgart during a workshop of the ORCHID (Organ-on-Chip In Development) project. The purpose of this invitational Vision workshop was to define the ingredients of the European... Read more

Heleen van Beusekom Erasmus MC, TU Delft and LifeTec Group have received a grant from the ZonMW MKMD program (Meer Kennis met Minder Dieren (MKMD) module Maatschappelijke Partners) for the development of animal free test systems. Project Information Title: Coronary stent -in-a-box and -on-a-chip "Development and innovation of... Read more

Health EU has made it into the second round of the selection process to become FET (future and emerging technologies) Flagships. Health EU is a major project, led by a consortium headed by EPFL in collaboration with hDMT and the University of Twente and run by Adrian Ionescu at the Nanoelectronic Devices Laboratory... Read more

The Young Scientist Forum that represents the early-stage career researchers of the European Society for Biomaterials has elected 5 new board members in April 2018. Two of the elected members are David Barata and Liliana Teixeira-Leijten, both working as post-doctoral researchers at MERLN Institute, Maastricht University. The other elected... Read more

David Barata, postdoc at the Department of Instructive Biomaterials Engineering (IBE) at Maastricht University's MERLN Institute, was awarded the Valorization prize 2017, ex aequo with Hans Schouwenburg. David completed his dissertation 'Development of microfluidic platforms for screening cell-biomaterial interactions'... Read more

Pamela Habibović, professor at Maastricht University, was invited to WijLimburg TV for an interview about her work on Regenerative Medicine as a partner of Brightlands Health Campus. As chair of the Department of Instructive Biomaterials Engineering (IBE) she had the opportunity to highlight the work on bioactive ceramics and the impact this... Read more

Photo 1: Jessica de Greef (LUMC). Photo 2: Pim Pijnappel (ErasmusMC). Photo 3 from left to right: Kevin Bielawski (Optics11), Erik van der Wal (LUMC), Niek Rijnveld (Optics11), Jessica de Greef (LUMC), Ernst Breel (Optics11), Pim Pijnappel (ErasmusMC). Not in picture: Alessandro Iuliano (ErasmusMC). Prinses Beatrix... Read more

On 22 March, the Minister of Education, Culture & Science (Ingrid van Engelshoven) and the State Secretary for Health, Welfare & Sport (Paul Blokhuis) received three knowledge agendas from NFU chairman Ernst Kuipers. hDMT is mentioned as an example of consolidation of scientific cooperation.These knowledge agendas are an elaboration of... Read more

NWO-ZonMW has granted the VICI project (1.5 million euros) of Jolanda van der Velden entitled: Sarcomere inefficiency at the heart of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Within the 5-year VICI project, van der Velden and her team will test the concept that sarcomere inefficiency is central in the initiation and progression of hypertrophic... Read more

The European InForMed project, which finances part of the Organ-on-Chip research in Delft University of Technology, has been acclaimed 'succes story' by the DG-RTD of the European Union. InForMed is an EU and industry funded project. It has developed a new platform approach for the manufacturing of the next-generation... Read more

The Local Organizing Committee cordially invites you to the 11th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences (WC11) in Maastricht in the Netherlands on 23-27 August 2020. The conference is hosted by Maastricht University at the Maastricht Exhibition & Congress Centre (MECC). Please visit the congress website ... Read more

Robert Passier (University of Twente), together with researchers from Radboud University and Medical Centers in Leiden and Amsterdam, has received a TOP grant from ZonMw for the project "Identification of molecular regulatory pathways for specification and maturation of human cardiac subtypes". More information ... Read more

From left to right: Lina Sarro (TU Delft, member of the jury), Margo Teurlings (TU/e), Anja van de Stolpe (chair hDMT Clinical Advisory Board, member of the jury), and Erik Danen (Leiden University, chair of the jury) TU/e master student Margo Teurlings won the Best hDMT Organ-on-Chip Showcase Award for presenting her ideas for... Read more

On January 19 Ingrid Meulenbelt held her inaugural lecture as newly appointed professor of Molecular Biology of Osteoarthritis at the department of Medical statistics and Bio-informatics section of Molecular Epidemiology of the Leiden University Medical Centre. press release LUMC (in Dutch) full text inaugural... Read more

Robert Passier, professor at the University of Twente (UT) and the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), has been appointed as an ambassador of the Netherlands Heart Institute (NL-HI). In this capacity Passier will forge links between technical universities and university medical centres in the field of biomedical technology and... Read more

Organ-on-Chip startup BI/OND was recently accepted in the Incubation program of Yes!Delft. Yes!Delft, founded in 2005 by the City of Delft and Delft University of Technology, helps entrepreneurs to build and grow leading technology companies. Over 90% of the 200 technology companies funded are still active. BI/OND is a... Read more

26.02.18 - In the future, will people have virtual twins to help monitor their health? That is what Health EU is proposing. This major project, led by a consortium headed by EPFL in collaboration with hDMT, is in the running to be a European Union FET Flagship project. If successful, it will receive €1 billion in financing... Read more

The award was presented by the president of the IEEE Electron Device Society during the opening ceremony of the IEEE MEMS 2018 Conference, on the 22nd of January 2018, in Belfast, UK. Lina Sarro (TUD) is the 2018 recipient of the prestigious IEEE Robert Bosch Micro and Nano Electro Mechanical Systems Award. This award is... Read more

Dr. Erik Vrij (Photo: MERLN)​ Dr. Erik Vrij, researcher at the Department of Complex Tissue Engineering from MERLN Institute/ Maastricht University has been awarded a prestigious Rubicon grant, from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). This grant will support his research activities for up to two years at the... Read more

Microfluidic device for tissue growth and online sensing. Source: TVL.be "Biomat on microfluidic chip" project was awarded an Interreg Flanders-the Netherlands grant. The project aims at developing a brand-new microfluidic platform allowing the testing of biomaterials in an organ-on-chip setting. The innovative aspects of... Read more

Project information Title: Development of an innovative Airway-on-Chip microbiome cell culture model to investigate host-microbiome interactions at the airway epithelial surface. Abstract: Patients with chronic inflammatory lung diseases such as asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) have a higher prevalence of... Read more

Albert van den Berg (right) and Ronald Dekker at the 5th European DMD 2017 conference. (Photo: Samuel Kirschstein) At the 5th European DMD 2017 conference the results of two large and completed European projects were presented: INCITE and InForMed. Albert van den Berg introduced the audience to Organ-on-Chip in a key... Read more

ZonMW/Proefdiervrij/Boehringer Ingelheim and Aquilo together have granted 250.000E for the research proposal NEURO-CHIP: NEURAL CONTROL OF HUMAN INTERNAL ORGAN PATHOPHYSIOLOGY by a consortium led by Reinoud Gosens (RUG). Aim of the research is to develop a model to study the interactions between human nerves and their... Read more

for €4M NWO-TTW Perspectief Program proposal "SMART Organ-on-Chip: State-of-the-art Micro-physiological Approach to Recapitulate Tissues" The SMART Organ-on-Chip program involves the development of a versatile chip platform that includes many technical features that are typically missing in current Organ-on-Chip models. An... Read more