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After the presentation of the final results of the ORCHID project in Brussels during the FET seminar beginning of this year, managing director of hDMT Janny van den Eijnden-van Raaij was interviewed by the European Commission. In the article, she tells about the lack of models that mimic the human body for drug development, and how Organ-on-Chip... Read more

Due to the current circumstances there will be no physical meeting in Uppsala on 8-9 July 2020. As the programme is already in a mature state, the intention is to arrange a virtual meeting on the same days, including plenary lectures, oral presentations and an interactive poster session! Keep July 8-9 2020 reserved so that you can... Read more

Abstract submission deadline has been extended to 22 March! Make your appearance on the scientific program of the 11th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences (WC11) to be held in Maastricht, The Netherlands from 23-27 August 2020. Submit an abstract of your 3R-related work now! The deadline for submitting... Read more

The year 2020 is a special year for hDMT since we celebrate our 5 year anniversary. After the start on 6 February 2015, hDMT has developed into a thriving and growing Organ-on-Chip Consortium. With the support of the hDMT board and the small hDMT team, consisting of the chair, the managing directors, the coordinator and communication... Read more

The European Research Council has awarded hDMT chair Christine Mummery of the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC), an ERC Proof of Concept grant to further develop research funded from her ERC Advanced Grant. Proof of Concept grants, worth €150,000 each, help ERC grantees to explore the innovation potential of their scientific... Read more

On Monday 25 November 2019, a panel of eight speakers plus an audience of 275 students, researchers, clinicians and other industry professionals came together at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). The goal of this inspiring afternoon was to examine the alternatives to animal experiments in the medical field. Rector Magnificus of the VU,... Read more

Abstract submission and registration is open now. Deadline for abstract submission is 15 March 2020. Innovative technologies, including Organ-on-Chip technology, is one of the central themes of WC11 in Maastricht. Among the 7 interesting keynote speakers are Don Ingber (Wyss; Organ-on-Chip), Joseph Wu (Stanford; stem cells for precision... Read more

"Where industry meets science, where problems can find solutions and where trends, challenges and new technologies are highlighted" This year, the iMNC conference was held on 10 and 11 December 2019 in the impressive Supernova complex in Utrecht, providing a futuristic location for discussing the latest trends in Micro and... Read more

The ORCHID (Organ-on-Chip In Development) project has been finalized. During the final ORCHID meeting in Leiden on 23 September 2019, the European Organ-on-Chip roadmap and other deliverables and milestones of ORCHID were presented to a broad audience of end-users, regulators, clinicians, developers, policymakers and patient representatives. ... Read more

December 10th 2019 there was an episode of Klokhuis on Dutch children's television about Organs-on-Chips featuring hDMT chair Christine Mummery and Berend van Meer. NPO Het Klokhuis Mini-organen (Dutch, 15 min) Presentor Pascal is visiting the hospital, where they make miniature organs from your own real organs. This way doctors... Read more

The Microsystems/Neuro-Nanoscale Engineering group of hDMT PI Regina Luttge at the Eindhoven University of Technology welcomes PhD student Gülden Akçay. Gülden's PhD project encompasses the work on microphysiological human brain and nervous systems on chip in order to advance our fundamental understanding of higher order... Read more

The Netherlands Organ-on-Chip Initiative (NOCI) funded by the NWO/OCW Gravity programme is now 2 years underway, almost halfway towards its midterm evaluation. More than 21 PhD students and 5 postdocs have been recruited over the 6 participating universities and institutes and the first joint publications are beginning to appear. ... Read more

Abstract submission for EUROoCS 2020 is now open via http://www.euroocs2020.angstrom.uu.se. Submitted abstracts will be selected either for an oral presentation or for the interactive poster session. Deadline for abstract submission: 1 March 2020 Deadline for abstract... Read more

Assistant Professor Ye Wang will be working on Organ-on-Chip technology in the Microsystems group of hDMT PI Jaap den Toonder at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He will be doing research on fabrication and control of microscopic functional devices/features by tuning intrinsic physical properties of materials, with applications... Read more

hDMT contributed to a booklet of the Dutch Transition Programme for animal-free Innovations (TPI) entitled '26x better and faster without the use of animals' on Dutch start-ups and scale-ups involved in the transition in the Netherlands. The booklet contains 26 positive stories and examples of producers of animal-free testing... Read more

From the 27th till the 29th of November, the Dutch Transition Programme for animal-free Innovations (TPI) organised the international Pioneer-2-Policymaker conference in Utrecht. The goal was to present the Dutch way of accelerating this transition and to instigate a true dialogue between researchers, regulators and developers. The Dutch... Read more

The European Research Council has awarded hDMT PI Albert van den Berg of the University of Twente, an ERC Proof of Concept grant for furthering standardisation in organ-on-chip infrastructure. Proof of Concept grants, worth €150,000 each, aim to help ERC grantees to explore the innovation potential of their scientific discoveries and bring... Read more

Verena Schwach, researcher at the group of hDMT PI Robert Passier (University of Twente), can start with her research to improved treatment of cardiac arrhythmia. In collaboration with the Dutch Heart Foundation, Verena started a crowdfunding campaign in October to raise enough money to start the research. On 8th December 2019 it was announced... Read more

MinacNed and NanoNextNL have developed a vision for the contribution of nanotechnology, a key technology for the Netherlands in which science and industry work together. The manifesto makes clear which solutions within current domains, such as health, safety, sustainable energy, agriculture and food, require a contribution from nanotechnology. ... Read more

Animal-free innovation becomes easier when you do it together with patients, doctors, researchers, financiers, health professionals and policy makers. That is what happens during a helpathon. A helpathon is an innovation protocol: during two days an interdisciplinary team looks for animal-free ways to answer a research question. 'Within... Read more

Paul Krijnen (project leader) and hDMT PI Sue Gibbs (foto) of the Amsterdam UMC and Magda Ulrich (Association of Dutch Burn Centres) received a four-year grant from TKI-LSH Health Holland for their project NETosis in burn-induced microvascular thrombosis in the skin and wound deepening: a causative factor, biomarker and therapeutic target. In... Read more

The recently granted Moore4Medical project intends to accelerate innovation in electronic and microfabricated devices for a number of emerging medical domains. In Moore4Medical 68 partners from 13 countries participate. This three-year project has a budget of €68M and will start in June 2020. Too often promising medical device... Read more

New laboratory techniques can help solve the shortage of donor liver, argues hDMT PI professor Luc van der Laan in the Dutch daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad, on the occasion of his oration 'Heal the liver'. Mini livers He also tells about building liver tissue in a petri dish. In this way, scientists can mimic the complete liver... Read more

The initiative of the University of Twente, a partner of hDMT, for an open standard 'Translational Organ-on-Chip Platform (TOP)' won the Philips Innovation Services 'Start-up of the Year Award' at the International MicroNano Conference 2019 in Utrecht (NL) Berend van Meer (UTwente, LUMC) pitched the platform technology that... Read more

Brain cells of people with intellectual disabilities or certain developmental disorders communicate differently than brain cells of people without those disorders. Researchers at the Radboudumc have discovered this by comparing the electrical brain waves of both groups. Their findings were recently published in Nature Communications and... Read more