Who are the initiators?
EUROoCS was initiated by the ORCHID (Organ-on-Chip in Development) European consortium of seven academic partners with the aim of:
Creating a roadmap for OoC technology.
Building a network of academia, research institutes, industry and regulatory bodies.
Raising awareness and building an ecosystem for OoC technologies.
The First EUROoCS Board:
- Christine Mummery (chair; Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands)
- Peter Loskill (vice-chair; Fraunhofer IGB Stuttgart/University of Tübingen, Germany)
- Janny van den Eijnden-van Raaij (secretary/treasurer; hDMT, the Netherlands)
- Albert van den Berg (member; University of Twente, the Netherlands)
EUROoCS Board as of July 1st 2023
Andries van der Meer
(chair)
Full Professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Twente
Marco Rasponi
(vice-chair)
Full Professor Politecnico di Milano
Peter Loskill
(past-chair)
Full Professor for Organ-on-Chip Research at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
Janny van den Eijnden-van Raaij
(secretary/treasurer)
Managing director of hDMT, the Netherlands Organ-on-Chip Consortium
Christine Mummery
(member)
Professor LUMC
Dries Braeken
(member)
Dries Braeken - R&D manager, imec
Martin Raasch
(member)
CEO and Co-founder of Dynamic42
Albert van den Berg
(member)
Professor University of Twente
Torsten Mayr
(member)
Associate Professor at the Institute of Analytical Chemistry and Food Chemistry at the Graz University of Technology
Erika Györvary
(member)
Technology Coordinator at CSEM
Massimo Mastrangeli
(member)
Associate Professor at the department of Microelectronics of TU Delft
Liliana Moreira Teixeira
(member)
Assistant professor at the faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Twente
EUROoCS Industrial Advisory Board as of February 1st 2023
Pelin Candarlioglu
(chair)
Director; 3D and 3Rs Ltd
Armin Wolf
(member)
Chief Scientific Officer at InSphero AG
Jochen Kühnl
(member)
Lab Manager Representative Cosmetics Europe Beiersdorf
Shuichi Chiba
(member)
General Manager, Global Scientific and Regulatory Affairs, San-Ei Gen F.F.I., Inc.
Thomas Singer
(member)
Prof. Thomas Singer, DABT
Rhiannon David
(member)
Director MPS in Clinical Pharmacology and Safety Sciences at AstraZeneca
Rhiannon Hardwick
(member)
Scientific Associate Director, Discovery Toxicology; Bristol Myers Squibb
EUROoCS Regulatory Advisory Board as of July 3rd 2021
Maurice Whelan
(chair)
Head of the Chemical Safety and Alternative Methods Unit JRC
Susanne Fitzpatrick
(member)
Senior Advisor for Toxicology at the US Food and Drug Administration Foods Program
Susanne Brendler-Schwaab
(member)
Unit head at the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM), Senior Expert in Toxicology and Regulatory Affairs
Sonja Beken
(member)
Coordinator of the Unit of non-clinical evaluators at the Belgian Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products (FAMHP)
Nathalie Delrue
Administrator of the Test Guidelines Programme (OECD)
Jacqueline van Engelen
(member)
Senior toxicologist and risk assessor at RIVM