We are proud to announce the start of our 2025 lecture series on January 21st 2025 with our distinguished speaker, Prof. Dr. Peter Loskill.

Prof. Dr. Peter Loskill is Full Professor for Organ-on-Chip (OoC) Research at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (EKUT) and the Natural and Medical Sciences Institute (NMI Natural and Medical Sciences Institute), and head of the 3R-Center Tübingen for in vitro Models and Alternatives to Animal Testing. Dr. Loskill graduated in 2012 from Saarland University with a PhD in Physics focusing on Biointerface science. He then spent three years as postdoctoral fellow at University of California at Berkeley developing hiPSC-based OoC models, funded by the NIH/NCATS TissueChip program and the German Science Foundation.

In 2015, he was named as one of Technology Review’s “Innovators under 35 Germany” and awarded a Fraunhofer ATTRACT Grant, the highest funded German starting grant program. In 2018, Dr. Loskill co-founded the European Organ-on-Chip Society (EUROoCS), for which he served as the Chair from 2021 to 2023. In 2021, he accepted a W3-professor position heading the Department for Microphysiological Systems at EKUT and NMI. In 2023, he became part of the governing board of the International MPS Society (iMPSS) and co-host of the MPS World Summit 2023 in Berlin with more than 1300 participants. In 2024, he was awarded the Ursula M. Händel Prize by the German Science Foundation (DFG).

Prof .Dr. Loskill and his interdisciplinary µOrgano lab (link) merge engineering, biology, physics and pharmacology to generate next generation tissue models recapitulating complex human biology in vitro. His research focuses on i) development of tailored OoC platforms, ii) application of OoCs for pharmaceutical research, toxicological screening, and biomedical studies, as well as on iii) enabling technologies that support parallelization, automation and ease of use. His 3R Center Tübingen (link) aims to provide all scientists in the state of Baden-Württemberg with low-threshold access to novel alternative methods to animal testing.

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We look forward to an inspiring and insightful lecture series kickoff!