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EUROoCS2024 Abstract submission is now open!

The EUROoCS2024 Conference is taking place in Milano from 3-5 July 2024. For more information go to website.

Yaakov Nahmias, PhD

Prof. Yaakov “Koby” Nahmias is a bioengineer and innovator, whose breakthroughs ranged from the first 3D printing of cells to the first commercial human-on-chip technology. He is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and is the founding director of the Grass Center for Bioengineering of the Hebrew University[…]

Liesbet Geris, PhD

Liesbet Geris is professor in Biomechanics and Computational Tissue Engineering at the University of Liège and KU Leuven (Belgium).  Her research focusses on the development of multi-scale and multi-physics in silico and in vitro models. Together with her team and their clinical and industrial collaborators, she uses these models to investigate the etiology of[…]

Ivan Martin, PhD

Prof. Dr. Ivan Martin studied Biomedical Engineering at the University of Genova where he obtained his PhD in 1996. Between 1996 and 1999 he was a postdoctoral associate at Harvard/MIT. He joined the Department of Biomedicine (DBM) at the University Hospital of Basel in 1999 as leader of the Tissue Engineering Research Group, in[…]

Sonja Beken, PhD

Sonja Beken holds a Master in Biological Sciences and PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium and a Master in Applied Toxicology from the University of Surrey, UK. Sonja Beken is the Coordinator of the Unit of non-clinical evaluators at the Belgian Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products (FAMHP).[…]

Kimberly Homan, PhD

Kim is a Senior Director and Distinguished Scientist at Genentech where she heads the Complex in vitro Systems lab, a core group focused on employing new predictive tools to enhance clinical translational outcomes. She has prior experience holding key leadership positions in two biotech startups, one of which she co-founded while in graduate school[…]

Dan Huh, PhD

Dr. Dan Huh is Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a pioneer of organ-on-a-chip technology, and his research group at Penn focuses on developing microengineered models of human physiological systems for biomedical and environmental applications. Dr. Huh has won several honors and awards including the PCI Inventor[…]

Heleen Middelkamp

Heleen Middelkamp PhD. is the support coordinator for EUROoCS. Furthermore, she works at the University of Twente in Enschede as a research assistant for the Dutch hDMT consortium. Heleen obtained her BSc. Biomedical laboratory research at Saxion University of Applied Sciences in Enschede. Her BSc. thesis was performed at the University of Iowa (US)[…]

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