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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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The International Scientific Committee for WC11
has been formed and had its first brainstorm meeting just before
Christmas last year. The four themes Safety,
Disease, Innovative technologies
and Ethics, welfare and regulatory affairs were
discussed, resulting in an extensive list of topics per theme.
Among the many topics are...
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Following up on the
ORCHID Vision workshop, the ORCHID Strategy workshop was held
in Leiden, the Netherlands on 17 January 2019. 32 experts from
academia, innovation hubs, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry,
patient organizations, ethics school, biotech companies and
regulatory agencies attended the workshop. They represented
developers, end...
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On Friday February 1th, the third annual hDMT Consortium
Meeting was held in the Engels Meeting & Conference Center in
Rotterdam. Eighty hDMT researchers from PhD to professor attended
the program and mingled in discussions. The day was chaired by
Femke de Vrij of the Erasmus Medical Center.
The annual hDMT Consortium Meeting...
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The NC3Rs, Medicines Discovery Catapult
and the University of Liverpool MRC Centre for Drug Safety Science
(CDSS) have published a report outlining recommendations to
accelerate the adoption of Organ-on-Chip technologies in order to
revolutionize drug target identification and validation studies
without the need for animals.
This report is...
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hDMT researchers Hans van Bokhoven and Nael Nadif Kasri from
Radboudumc and the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and
Behaviour have received funding from the prestigious European
Research programs ERA-NET Neuron and E-Rare.
With the EU-projects DECODE! and IMPACT they build on the
innovative Brain-on-Chip technology that has been...
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River BioMedics is a startup biotech company of the University
of Twente that works on the development and supply of 3D human
heart models. Their assays are based on stem cell technology and
mimic the pumping function of the real human heart.
Recently the River BioMedics team received a Take-off Phase 1 grant
of...
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Radboudumc researcher
Alireza Dolatshahi-Pirouz, partner of hDMT, received a VIDI Grant
of 800,000 euros to develop his innovative research project on
regenerative biomaterials and to build up his own research group.
VIDI will allow him to conduct research for a period of five
years.
Due to the aging population new innovations are...
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In the Year in Review 2018 published by the Top Sector Life
Sciences & Health, named Health~Holland, hDMT is highlighted as one
of the four strategic public-private partnerships they
support during their fundamental, industrial and experimental
R&D.
Screenshot Year in Review Health~Holland
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We are very pleased
that The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has
granted the Take-Off Phase II application of BI/OND. The Take-off
Phase II is an early stage route that supports entrepreneurs in
turning their innovation into a commercially viable product. In
2017 they have been granted also with the Take-Off Phase I.
...
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Within the ORCHID project, the
main goal is to create a roadmap for organ-on-chip technology and
to build a network of all relevant stakeholders in this promising
innovative field.
By identifying you as a stakeholder, we would like to draw your
attention concerning the training needs of the next
generation of researchers and technicians in...
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We are pleased to
announce that CONNECT has had its kick-off meeting on January 24th,
2019. Partners in this exciting EU funded project include hDMT
Brain-on-Chip theme leader prof. Steven Kushner and co-worker dr.
Femke de Vrij from Erasmus MC.
Under the leadership of dr. Regina Luttge (Eindhoven University
of Technology) all project...
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In their January 2019
edition the National Geographic focused on the future of
personalized medicine and how new technologies transform our health
care. The article How personalized medicine is transforming your
health care, is written from the perspective and expertise
of American labs and universities, and with an important role
for...
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On Wednesday 19th of December, the department of Genetics and
the iPSC/CRISPR Center of the UMCG in Groningen organized the 2nd
hDMT/UMCG Organ-on-Chip Mini-symposium to illustrate the potential
of Organ-on-Chip technology for biomedical research. Three experts
in the field presented their work.
Robert Barrett (Cedars-Sinai, Los...
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Health EU initiative
makes important steps towards strategic recognition and launches
today its Manifesto.
In a competition with many excellent projects, and, as a result
of the 2nd phase evaluation of Coordination and Support Actions for
FET Flagships, Health EU was recognized as the leading project on
Human Avatars and Digital Healthcare...
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hDMT was represented at two meetings, that were organized by the
network Transition Animal-free Innovation: Startups en scaleups:
het kan wél! on 16 November in Eindhoven, and
Informatieportaal Proefdiervrije Innovatie: doe mee! on 14 December
in Utrecht.
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The hDMT Consortium
unanimously embraced the proposal to start an hDMT Eye-on-Chip
group. The group will be coordinated by Andries van der Meer
(UTwente) in collaboration with Anneke den Hollander
(Radboudumc).
In 2019 the first Eye-on-Cip meeting will be organized. During
this meeting hDMT partner institutions come together to share
their...
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The 13th Edition of the international MicroNanoConference,
organized by MinacNed started on 11 December 2019 at the Beurs van
Berlage in the centre of Amsterdam. Researchers from academia and
representatives from industry followed a rich programme with
presentations and keynotes in the fields of microfluidics,
organ-on-a-chip, biosensing and...
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After the useful ORCHID Vision Workshop on 23 May 2018 in
Stuttgart a second invitational workshop, the ORCHID Strategy
Workshop, will be organized in Leiden on 17 January 2019.
Building upon the recommendations of the first workshop, the aim
of the Strategy workshop is to further specify the milestones of
the Organ-on-Chip roadmap and define...
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End of November the research proposal The role of potassium
SK channels in Alzheimer`s disease was awarded by Alzheimer
Nederland. Amalia Dolga from the University of Groningen (RUG) will
work on this project together with Steven Kushner (ErasmusMC) and
Alex Domling (RUG).
"Several hypothesis tried to explain
the molecular pathways of...
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Groningen
welcomes Dr. Anika Nagelkerke, who joined the Groningen Research
Institute of Pharmacy (GRIP) of the University of Groningen as a
tenure-track Assistant Professor on November 1st 2018. Embedded in
the Pharmaceutical Analysis basic unit, Anika's research will
focus on in vitro models for advanced drug testing.
Anika...
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In the second round of Twente University Radboudumc
Opportunities (TURBO) grants Roland Brock (Radboudumc) and
Séverine Le Gac (UT) were awarded for their new
technical-medical research proposal on a smart Tumor-on-Chip.
Hypoxia (oxygen deficiency)
in a tumor increases the aggressiveness and hinders the
effectiveness of...
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PRESS RELEASE, 13 November 2018
The new European Organ-on-Chip Society (EUROoCS) was officially
launched at the third International Organ-on-Chip Symposium, held
on 8 and 9 November 2018 at the University of Technology in
Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The Society will encourage development
and coordination of Organ-on-Chip research in Europe in...
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On Friday November 23, the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) was
officially launched in Vienna at an event hosted by the Austrian
Presidency of the European Union. The inauguration marks the
conclusion of a long process of consultation and reflection with
stakeholders led by the European Commission.
At
the launch of EOSC the members of the...
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Berend
van Meer, PhD in the group of Christine Mummery (LUMC), works on
Heart-on-Chip technology to measure how the heart is contracting
and find innovative ways to diagnose and treat patients with
cardiac disease using cardiomyocytes grown from stem cells on
chips.
But not just any stem cells, your stem cells, in order to
diagnose and treat...
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