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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...
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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....
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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...
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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),...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Association of Dutch Health Foundations (SGF) and
the Top Sector Life Sciences & Health (LSH) have made € 3.2
million PPP Allowance (financial resources for public-private
partnerships) available for the development of Human Measurement
Models. This call is being made in collaboration with ZonMw and NWO
Domain Applied and...
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Start-up
BI/OND has won the Philips Innovation Award 2019. At Theater
Rotterdam, the young researchers received a cheque (50.000 euros)
which was awarded by jury chairman Frans van Houten, CEO of
Philips.
BI/OND, a spin-off company from Delft University of Technology
and very active within hDMT, mimics organ cells on computer chips
and thus...
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Six consortia are in
the latest round of ambitious proposals for European flagships,
billion-euro research projects intended to run for 10 years. The
consortium, called LifeTime, is one of the six candidates and aims
to use three emerging technologies-machine learning, the study of
single cells, and lab-grown organlike tissues called...
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TNO, hDMT partner, has started a unique collaboration
with Stichting Proefdiervrij and the biopharmaceutical company
Galapagos. This initiative investigates whether it is possible to
make the development of medicines more efficient and at the same
time use fewer laboratory animals, by cleverly linking different
technologies.
The initiative...
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Speeding up the development of Organ-on-Chip technology
by bringing together all stakeholders at an early stage. That's the
mission of Janny van den Eijnden - van Raaij, who is co-founder of
the new European Organ-on-Chip Society.
Mimicking a human
organ on a chip is a relatively new field in science. In this field
biologists and...
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On the 28th of March representatives from the ECSEL JU and IMI
Joint undertakings met at their headquarters in Brussels to discuss
topics of mutual interest. ECSEL Joint Undertaking is a
public-private partnership, funding innovation in electronic
components and systems, while IMI is funding health research and
innovation.
The...
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BI/OND, the Eindhoven University of Technology
(Dr. Nicholas Kurniawan) and the University of Luxembourg (Dr.
Silvia Bolognin and Prof. Jens Schwamborn) have received funding
from the TKI-Life Sciences&Health (LSH) through the programme
'Health~Holland International (HHINT) Kickstarter for
public-private partnerships.
The...
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hDMT
researcher Jaap den Toonder of the Eindhoven University of
Technology has received an Advanced Grant of 3 million euros from
the European Research Council (ERC). He will develop vibrating
artificial cilia to study and better understand the effect of
forces and flows on cells and tissues.
Almost every process in biology is based on...
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hDMT researchers Bastien Venzac and Séverine Le
Gac from the University of Twente together with Flemming Cassee
from RIVM received a grant from ZonMw for the development of a new
lung-on-chip system.
Plastic microfibers originating from, for example, synthetic
clothing, furniture, and carpets, end up in the air. This
means...
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On Tuesday 19 March
2019 a one-day Organ-on-Chip symposium was organized by dr.
Ben Maoz and dr. Gad Vatine at the Tel Aviv University (TAU) in
Israel. It was a lively meeting divided in four parts:
Cancer/Metabolism, Vasculature, Technologies and Lab on Chip.
Some 150 attendants watched new work presented in oral
presentations and posters,...
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The proposal of the team of Heleen Middelkamp, Mees de
Graaf and Aisen de Sá Vivas entitled 3D Blood
Vessels-on-Chip Cultured Under Flow has won the hDMT Junior
Researchers Challenges Call 2019.
During the third annual hDMT Consortium Meeting, the hDMT Junior Researchers Challenges Call 2019
was launched. The purpose of the call is to...
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In the Dutch newspaper Eindhovens Dagblad hDMT managing director
Janny van den Eijnden - van Raaij explains the role of
Organ-on-Chip technology for health care and drug research.
Better medicine through chip technology
Organs-on-chip are considered a great promise in the medical
world. Janny van den Eijnden - van Raaij from Eindhoven...
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An article in the Dutch journal Bionieuws that tells
about animal-free research with Organ-on-Chips starring Nikolas
Gaio, Herman Koëter, Jan van der Valk, tells also about the
leading role of the Netherlands in this field by initiatives as
hDMT and NOCI.
Bionieuws: Computer chip as a laboratory
animal
Organs-on-chips, or...
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The first edition of the
two-day conference 'Life-on-Chip - The Road from Idea to Reality'
in the Provincial House in Leuven was attended by more than 140
international participants, speakers and exhibitors. The
participants were all players from the Health/Life Sciences and
micro- and nanotechnology sectors.
During the...
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