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EUROoCS Conference 2022 update
Due to the overwhelming number of EUROoCS 2022 participants (close to 500 instead of 250 expected), due to the logistical difficulty to move these people by cable car, due to the...
The European Organ-on-Chip Society (EUROoCS)
Is an independent, not-for-profit organization established to encourage and develop Organ-on-Chip research, and to provide opportunities to share and advance knowledge and expertise in the field towards better health for all.
a shared platform for organ-on-chip knowledge
We are well-known internationally
We have an extensive european network
We provide a shared knowledge platform
For who? For all!
For who? For all!
The European Organ-on-Chip Society brings together a broad audience including the general public and institutions (government, health foundations, charities), the academic research community (universities, research institutes), the pharmaceutical industry, other industries (cosmetics, chemical, environmental toxicity and food industries), hospitals, medical centers and medical practitioners, patients associations, policy makers and testing centers.
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EUROoCS Conference 2022 update
Due to the overwhelming number of EUROoCS 2022 participants (close to 500 instead of 250 expected), due to the logistical difficulty...
EUROoCS Conference 2022 update
The Scientific Program Committee has developed an exciting program for the EUROoCS 2022 conference. From the 218 submitted abstracts 56 oral...
3Rs Science Prize 2022: Call for submissions
The Call for submissions for EPAA’s 3Rs Science Prize 2022 has been launched. The €10,000 prize is granted every two years to a scientist with an outstanding...
3Rs student grants 2022: Call for submissions
The EPAA has published its call for the 2022 3Rs Student grants . The purpose of the grants is to sponsor...
EURL ECVAM Status Report 2021 on Alternative Methods published
The European Union Joint Research Centre for Alternatives to Animal Testing (EURL ECVAM) has issued its 2021 ‘Status Report on the Development,...
EUROoCS Conference 2022 update
The registration is open now, please use the following link. Deadline Early Bird Registration: 15 June 2022 Important note: Only EUROoCS...
ERC Consolidator Grant ‘Phoenix’ for Maria Tenje and collaborators
Maria Tenje, professor at Uppsala University, Sweden receives funding for her project PHOENIX, an ERC Consolidator Grant in physical sciences and...
Workshop OoC in Paris: France federates its OoC community
On February 23rd and 24st, 2022, the plenary meeting for the structuring of the OoC sector in France was held in...
Abstract submision for EUROoCS 2022 now open (extended)
Abstract Submission extended to April 30 2022 Abstract submission for EUROoCS 2022, held on 4-5 July 2022 in Grenoble France, is...
Contribute to the Tumor Lymph Node-on-Chip End Users Questionnaire!
‘Tumor and Lymph Node-on-Chip for cancer studies’ (Tumor-LN-oC) is a Horizon 2020 EU project coordinated by the Institute of Communication and...
Open technology platforms for emerging medical domains
Last November the Health.E lighthouse released two white papers on open technology platforms for emerging medical domains with Organ-on-Chip of course...
300 million euros for a new international stem cell consortium
A grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation of up to 300 million euro now enables the establishment of a major international...
Emulate Liver-Chip able to correctly identify 87% of drugs that caused drug-induced liver injury to patients
In a recent study now available on BioRxiv, researchers assessed the performance of 780 human Liver-Chips across a blinded set of 27...
CEN-CENELEC Organ-on-Chip Focus Group Creation
In April, the online workshop 'Organ on Chip: Towards Standardization' took place as the 2021 edition of Putting Science into Standards...
EMA implements new measures to minimise animal testing during medicines development
EMA is putting in place special support to developers to replace, reduce and refine animal use for the development, manufacturing and...
EUROoCS Awards
During the closing ceremony of the EUROoCS 2021 conference seven prizes were awarded: -Best Presentation Award (40 presentations in total) -Best...
Nation-wide Organ-on-Chip networks
In many European countries national consortia or networks on Organ-on-Chip have already been established or are under construction. Nathalie Picollet D’hahan...
EUROoCS for and by members
EUROoCS is a growing society with currently 500 members from 32 different countries. Time to redefine the strategy and look ahead...
Changes in the EUROoCS organization
EUROoCS Board The results of the voting by the EUROoCS members for two additional EUROoCS Board members and a new vice-chair...
Report of EUROoCS 2021 conference online
Ever-growing interest The 3rd edition of the Annual EUROoCS (European Organ-on-Chip Society) Conference was again an online experience because of the...
The Intersection of Stem Cells and Engineering
Podcast with Christine Mummery and Peter Loskill Following the publication of the Special issue on Organs-on-Chip in Stem Cell Reports, the...
Science paper with Roche’s perspectives on Human microphysiological systems for drug development
Microphysiological systems (MPS) may provide a way to better understand and address the main failures of clinical programs: lack of efficacy...
Special issue Stem Cell Reports on Organs-on-Chip
The special issue of Stem Cell Reports on Organs-on-Chip is the first result of the collaboration between the International Society for...
Tumor-LN-oC project has kicked-off
On May 7th, 2021 Tumor-LN-oC project (Tumor and Lymph Node on Chip for cancer studies) was officially kicked-off via online conferencing...
International MicroNanoConference 2021 Cancelled
Cancelled The MinacNed board has unfortunately had to decide to cancel the iMNC21 conference this year. More information see here....
Successful online EUROoCS 2021 conference
The 3rd edition of the Annual EUROoCS (European Organ-on-Chip Society) Conference was again a virtual event, hosted by the University of...
To be or not to be: An organoid
What exactly is an organoid? Are there different types, and if so, what should they be called? A group of experts...
Falling Walls Lab MSCA competition now open – Pitch your research!
Falling Walls Lab Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions is now accepting entries which showcase the quality, diversity and passion of the most innovative...
Program of EUROoCS 2021 is ready
The program of EUROoCS 2021 is now online! With 6 inspiring keynote lectures from academia, regulatory authority and industry, complemented by...
Only 1 week left to register as EARLY BIRD for EUROoCS 2021
Don’t miss the opportunity to benefit from the early bird fee by completing your registration by June 15th 2021. Also our full...
Special sessions during annual event 2021
This year, we also introduce a new feature in the format of two special sessions organized by the Advisory Boards of...
Recordings and presentations PSIS workshop on Organ-on-Chip now available
If you were not able to join the workshop Putting Science into Standards (PSIS) on standardization of Organ-on-Chip, please have a...
Prestigious Lefoulon-Delalande prize for Christine Mummery
Congratulations to professor Christine Mummery from Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands who is co-recipient of the 2021 Scientific Grand...
3Rs student grants 2021: call for submissions
The European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA) supports students and young scientists with outstanding work in the field...
Call for presentation of nation-wide Organ-on-Chip networks at EUROoCS 2021
During the 3rd annual EUROoCS meeting there will be a possibility for the presentation of nation-wide networks. (more…)
Dutch Organ-on-Chip project receives huge grant to make the leap from lab to fab
NWO, the Dutch Research Council, has awarded a Perspective grant of 4.8 million euros for a Dutch multidisciplinary consortium, led by...
EUROoCS 2021 goes virtual! Abstract submission and registration now open
We cordially invite you to the 3rd annual EUROoCS meeting on 1 and 2 July 2021. Due to the pandemic, the...
EUROoC Virtual lab tour in 11 laboratories
15 PhD students give you a virtual lab tour in 11 laboratories involved in the EUROoC International Training Network, where they...
2021 edition of the ‘Putting Science into Standards’ (PSIS) workshop open for registration
Since 2013, the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC) and the European Standardization Organizations CEN and CENELEC have carried...
First step towards a national Organ-on-Chip consortium in France
The BioValley France competitiveness cluster brings together and supports startups, SMEs, large groups, healthcare, and research and training organizations in the...
Recording of the Workshop on MPS: Bridging Human and Animal Research now available
The recording of the Workshop on Microphysiological Systems (MPS): Bridging Human and Animal Research that was held on January 19-20, 2021...
Multiorgan-on-a-Chip: A Systemic Approach To Model and Decipher Inter-Organ Communication
Multiorgan-on-a-chip (multi-OoC) technology has great potential to metamorphose research in biology and medicine by providing holistic and personalized models for understanding...
Organ-on-Chip: Playing LEGO® With Mini-Organs to Reduce Animal Testing and Make Medicines Safer
This publication in the journal Frontiers for Young Minds is specifically designed to an audience of kids and teenagers. “Figure reproduced...
FDA Report on Advancing Alternative Methods
Dr. Susanne Fitzpatrick, senior advisor for toxicology at FDA about the report: ‘The report entitled Advancing Alternative Methods at FDA was...
White paper: Emerging Medical Domains for the ECS industry now available
The Health.E lighthouse recently published a White Paper on the emerging medical domains for the electronics components and systems industry and...
NWA-ORC grant for Virtual Human Platform for Safety Assessment
In the second round of the Dutch Research Agenda Program: Research along routes by Consortia (NWA-ORC) the project Virtual Human Platform...
NWA-ORC grant for Organ-on-Chip models with integrated lymphatics
A 5 million Euro NWA-ORC grant was awarded to hDMT researchers to develop immunocompetent human Organ-on-Chip models with integrated lymph drainage...
‘Mini Organs-on-Chips: Towards new research models for studying disease and finding treatments’.
The Dutch Foundation ‘Biosciences and Society’ has launched the booklet entitled 'Mini Organs-on-Chips: Towards new research models for studying disease and...
Call for partners Cost Action ‘Advanced Microfluidics Initiative’
Prof. Dr. Peter Ertl from TU Wien (Austria) is looking for partners to build a COST consortium in the field of...
Special issue Call for Papers: Organ-on-Chip and microphysiological systems
To highlight the new alliance with EUROoCS, Stem Cell Reports is seeking manuscripts on innovative studies incorporating stem cells or their...
Review ‘Organs-on-Chips: into the next decade’ published
A few years after the international Keystone Symposium in April 2018 in Big Sky, Montana, USA co-organized by Christine Mummery (EUROoCS...
Stem Cell Reports “home” journal for EUROoCS
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) and the European Organ-on-Chip Society (EUROoCS) are pleased to announce an agreement...
Moore4Medical kicks off to bring open technology platforms in organs-on-chip
Last June, 2020 the ECSEL Joint Undertaking Moore4Medical kicked off with the overarching objective to accelerate innovation in electronic medical devices....
Report of EUROoCS 2020 Conference Online
Beyond expectations The 2nd edition of the Annual EUROoCS (European Organ-on-Chip Society) Conference was very different from the one held before....
Four new members added to EUROoCS Board
The EUROoCS members elected four additional Board members, that will expand the current Board from four to eight representatives. They are...
EUROoCS Industrial Advisory Board installed
Since June 1st 2020 EUROoCS has implemented an Industrial Advisory Board (IAB), consisting of six members from important industrial stakeholders and...
Last steps towards an Organ-on-Chip Journal
EUROoCS is proud to announce that, in partnership with ISSCR (The International Society on Stem Cell Research), a subsection of Stem...
EUROoCS 2020 Awards
During the closing ceremony of the EUROoCS 2020 conference five prizes were awarded: -Two Best Presentation Young Investigator Awards (selected from...
EUROoCS Conferences 2021 and 2022
EUROoCS 2021: Next year the EUROoCS conference will take place in Uppsala in Sweden on 1st and 2nd of July 2021....
EUROoCS 2020 beyond expectations
The 2nd edition of the Annual EUROoCS (European Organ-on-Chip Society) Conference was very different from the one held before. Instead of...
“World Conference on Microphysiological Systems (MPS)” survey
CAAT and several other organizations are planning a "World Conference on Microphysiological Systems (MPS)" to be held in Baltimore/DC (USA) in...
NC3Rs Survey
The NC3Rs is currently running a survey targeted to end-users of organ-on-a-chip technology. The aim of the survey is to gather...
WC11 webinars on 3Rs in COVID-19 research
On 25 and 26 August 2020 at 3 PM CET, the 11th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the...
Booklet Mini Organs-on-Chip
Organ-on-Chip explained in easy to understand language
EUROoCS2020 meeting preliminary program available
The preliminary program for the online EUROoCS 2020 meeting on 8-9 July, is available on the annual meeting page. Details on...
t4 Workshop Report: Biology-inspired MPS to advance patient benefit and animal welfare in drug development
European Organ-on-Chip Society (EUROoCS) was represented during a three-day workshop in Berlin in June 2019, where 46 leading experts gathered to...
ISSCR 2020 Goes Virtual
The International Society for Stem Cell Research has transformed its annual scientific meeting ISSCR on 23-27 June, into a virtual experience,...
Registration Online EUROoCS2020 open
Registration is open: only for members The EUROoCS 2020 online meeting is free of charge but registration is required via this...
A European front on Organ-on-Chip technology
In nearly two years the EU-funded ORCHID project built a roadmap for Organ-on-Chip (OoC) technology and established a European network in...
3Rs Science Prize 2020 Call for submissions
The European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA) is proud to announce that a call for submissions is now...
How Organ-on-Chip technology can mimic human physiology
After the presentation of the final results of the ORCHID project in Brussels during the FET seminar beginning of this year,...
Queen Mary opens Organs-on-Chips Centre for advancements in medical research and drug development
The new 'Queen Mary – Emulate Organs-on-Chips Centre' will use Organs-on-Chips to recreate the human biology of different organs by incorporating...
EUROoCS2020 Annual Meeting
Important information related to covid-19 Due to the current circumstances there will be no physical meeting in Uppsala in 2020. As...
WC11 Abstract Submission deadline extended to 22 March 2020
Make your appearance on the scientific program of the 11th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences...
Abstract submission for EUROoCS 2020 extended until March 15
Abstract submission for EUROoCS 2020, held on 8-9 July 2020 in Uppsala Sweden, is now open via http://www.euroocs2020.angstrom.uu.se. Submitted abstracts will...
ORCHID Final report available
EUROoCS was initiated by the ORCHID (Organ-on-Chip in Development) European consortium of seven academic partners. The ORCHID project has now been...
Registration for EUROoCS 2020 now open
Registration is open, see the conference website www.euroocs2020.angstrom.uu.se. Early bird fee is available until 5 May 2020. Registration Special reduced fees will...
Abstract submision for EUROoCS 2020 now open
Abstract submission for EUROoCS 2020, held on 8-9 July 2020 in Uppsala Sweden, is now open via http://www.euroocs2020.angstrom.uu.se. Submitted abstracts will...
MicroTAS 2019 Short course
On Sunday, 27 October from 09:00 - 17:00 several short courses/workshops will be organized. In the afternoon during WORKSHOP 10, Jun.-Prof....
Nominations for the Lush Prize 2020 are open
The Lush Prize offers a global prize fund to support initiatives to end or replace animal testing. The prestigious prize fund...
India too moves away from animal testing
Nature published in News in Focus (1 October 2019) that India is one of the latest countries joining a growing wave...
Annual EUROoCS Conference 2020
Due to the COVID-19 crisis the annual meeting previously scheduled in Uppsala, Sweden, 8-9 July 2020, will be held online on...
Planned novel Open Access journal format
A planned novel Open Access journal format that combines for the first time publishing with funding. Plan S is an initiative...
Article on essential elements for the development and qualification of lung MPS models
Article by Garrett R. Ainslie et.al. that summarizes, from a biopharmaceutical industry perspective, essential elements for the development and qualification of...
Dynamic final ORCHID meeting
Horizon 2020 FET-Open project Organ-on-Chip In Development (ORCHID GA #766884) is close to completion. On 23 September 2019 the achievements of...
EUROoCS meets ESAO
During the 46th Annual ESAO (European Society for Artificial Organs) Congress on ‘Smartificial Devices for our Future’ in Hannover from 3-7...
Report of First EUROoCS Conference 2019 in Graz
The first conference of the European Organ-on-Chip Society (EUROoCS) in Graz in Austria on the 2nd and 3rd of July this...
Foto impression EUROoCS meeting in Graz
A foto impression of the 1st annual conference of the European Organ-on-Chip Society, held in Graz on 2-3 July 2019. The...
EUROoCS Awards 2019
During the closing ceremony of the first EUROoCS conference 2019 in Graz (Austria) a number of young scientists received an award....
Two publications from ORCHID project now available online
Two publications from the ORCHID project are now available online. "Impact of organ-on-a-chip technology on pharmaceutical R&D costs", by Franzen et.al....
MicroNanoConference extended deadline abstract submission
The international MicroNanoConference is organized by the Dutch association for Microsystems and Nanotechnology MinacNed. This conference provides a platform where micro...
Special Issue “Cancer Organoids in Basic Science and Translational Medicine”
Publication possibilities in the Special Issue "Cancer Organoids in Basic Science and Translational Medicine", a special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). Special...
Sartorius and Science Prize for Regenerative Medicine and Cell Therapy
The annual Sartorius and Science Prize for Regenerative Medicine and Cell Therapy is geared towards researchers focused on basic or translational...
Looking for collaborators?
Are you looking for collaborators in the OoC field and are you a member of the EUROoCS, then you have access...
European Organ-on-Chip Society open for active membership
Press release: European Organ-on-Chip Society open for active membership The founding phase is complete: the European Organ-on-Chip Society (EUROoCS) is now...
Call for proposals for WC11 sessions deadline extended
The International Scientific Committee for WC11 has been formed and had its first brainstorm meeting just before Christmas last year. The...
First annual meeting
First EUROoCS Conference 2019 in Graz
First EUROoC newsletter
EUROoC proudly presented the first EUROoC newsletter on 20th May 2019. If you are interested in receiving the EUROoC Newsletters, please...
An active Israelian Organ-on-Chip community during one day symposium
On Tuesday 19 March 2019 a one-day Organ-on-Chip symposium was organized by dr. Ben Maoz and dr. Gad Vatine at the...
Flemish first Life-on-Chip Conference great succes
The first edition of the two-day conference 'Life-on-Chip - The Road from Idea to Reality' in the Provincial House in Leuven...
Call for proposals for WC11 sessions
The International Scientific Committee for WC11 has been formed and had its first brainstorm meeting just before Christmas last year. The...
Impression of the ORCHID Strategy workshop
Following up on the ORCHID Vision workshop, the ORCHID Strategy workshop was held in Leiden, the Netherlands on 17 January 2019....
How to build a better organ-on-a-chip
An interesting post by Matt Pavlovich on "How to build a better organ-on-a-chip". He attended a Keystone Symposium on Organs- and Tissues-on-Chips...
UK Report on accelerating Organ-on-Chip technology development
The NC3Rs, Medicines Discovery Catapult and the University of Liverpool MRC Centre for Drug Safety Science (CDSS) have published a report...
Integration of Emerging Technologies in Mechanistic and Translational Toxicology
Application information Applications for this meeting must be submitted by July 14, 2019. Please apply early, as some meetings become oversubscribed (full)...
Registration is open: EUROoC 2019, 2-3 July 2019 in Graz
This year the annual EUROoCS Organ-on-Chip conference will be organized in Graz, in Austria, on 2 and 3 July 2019. It...
ORCHID Questionnaire on training needs of the next generation OoC reseachers and technicians
Within the ORCHID project, the main goal is to create a roadmap for organ-on-chip technology and to build a network of...
National Geographic article on the future of personalized medicine
In their January 2019 edition the National Geographic focused on the future of personalized medicine and how new technologies transform our...
Health EU launches its Manifesto to unify Digital Healthcare in Europe!
Health EU initiative makes important steps towards strategic recognition and launches today its Manifesto. In a competition with many excellent projects,...
European Organ-On-Chip Society launched
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...
ORCHID interim roadmap report proudly presented
The ORCHID team was proud to present the first interim roadmap report entitled: 'Organ-on-Chip in Development: Towards a European roadmap for...
Impression of a successful third International Organ-On-Chip Symposium IOOCS18 in Eindhoven
Over 180 participants from 12 different countries joined the third International Organ-on-Chip Symposium (IOOCS18) held in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, on 8...
High level attention for InForMed project in Brussel
On November 27th 2018 the ECSEL Joint Undertaking presented the results of the InForMed project and the Health.E Lighthouse Initiative at...
Soheila Zeinali wins Best Poster Award IOOCS18
Soheila Zeinali from the Organs-on-Chip technologies group of the University of Bern (Switzerland) received the Best Poster Award at the International...
LUMC takes the lead in construction of stem cell facility
At the Leiden BioScience Park, the Netherlands, a new high-tech stem cell facility will emerge in the coming years: the NEtherlands...
An Inserm Workshop on OoC gathered 70 people from Europe, in Bordeaux
An Inserm workshop dedicated to Organ-on-Chip (OoC) and entitled “OoC : understanding and mimicking living organisms for better treatment”, was organized...
European Society in OoC
Christine Mummery first chair of the new European on chip society EURoOCS
First European ORCHID initiative
Define the European Organ-on-Chip roadmap - Strengthen the Organ-on-Chip community in Europe
FDA involved in OoC for Food Safety
FDA signs collaborative agreement with Emulate, Inc - OoC as Toxicology Testing Platform (liver-on-a-chip) - OoC: a tool to understand how...
Top 10 of emerging technologies
By the World Economic Forum’s Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies
Pharma involved in OoC
Emulate, Inc. announced that it formed a research collaboration with Janssen Biotech, Inc.
hDMT consortium
Precompetitive, non-profit technological R&D institute - Valorizes Organ-on-Chip models - Promotes open knowledge exchange and collaborations in OoC
Pharmas fund OoC in Europe
OoC technology combined with high throughput screening of primary human cells. - OoC predict renal toxicity during pre-clinical development.
First US OoC Start-up
Emulate: spin-off from the Wyss Institute - OoC put on the market - Drug testing applications
US Human on a chip initiative
FDA: partner in this 2012 Tissue Chip program - NIH and DARPA fund research grant in OoC
Establishment of European OoC Companies
OoC: a potential to transform the drug discovery industry Co-culture of two cell types in a common medium Multi-organ chip platform
Birth of Organ-on-Chip
Wyss Institute Airway-on-a-chip device Read "Huh D. et al, 2010"
Before 2010 Organ-on-Chip
Microphysiological systems (MPS) Improved long-term cellular viability with microfluidics See also Pioneers in the microfluidic cell culture field: Groups of Mike...
What our members say
Christine Mummery
Past-chair
“EUROoCS is a great place to find researchers equally excited about OoC applications as we are: not only do we find a shared vision for the future of disease modelling but also the technical expertise we need to achieve those goals using human stem cells”
Peter Loskill
Chair
“EUROoCS not only brings together all stakeholders interested in Organ-on-Chip technology; the society also provides the framework that will allow the technology to fulfil its promises and make pharmaceutical and biomedical research more humane and human-relevant.”
Andries van der Meer
Vice-chair
“EUROoCS plays a pivotal role in accelerating our development of the next-generation of organs-on-chips!”
Janny van den Eijnden-van Raaij
Secretary/Treasurer
“The more active you are within EUROoCS, the more you get in return!”
Jacqueline van Engelen
Member RAB
“EUROoCS provides the possibility to connect, that is very valuable, for researchers, developers and regulators .. and everyone that is interested in organ on a chip”
“Doing now what patients need next!”
Roche, society sponsor EUROoCS
We thank our sponsors
Get in touch with us
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