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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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"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...
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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.
...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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