New publication on designing microphysiological systems for cardiac modelling

Researchers from the Centre of Excellence in Body-on Chip Research at Tampere University (Finland) have published a review regarding designing  microphysiological systems for cardiac modelling. The review is titled 'Building blocks of microphysiological system to model physiology and pathophysiology of human heart'. The centre focuses on modelling of hypoxia in cardiac ischemia, brain stroke[…]

Report of the European Medicines Agency 3Rs Working Party (3RsWP) public stakeholder session on the 2023 work plan

On 28 February 2023, the newly established EMA Joint CHMP/CVMP 3Rs Working Party (3RsWP) hosted a virtual public session that was broadcast and open to all stakeholders. The aim of this public session was to present the 3RsWP work plan and priorities for 2023. In addition, an opportunity was provided to stakeholders to comment[…]

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Andries van der Meer

Dr. Andries D. van der Meer is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Twente, The Netherlands. He is the leader of the Organs-on-Chips research theme in the Applied Stem Cell Technologies group of the Bioengineering Technologies cluster, supervising six Ph.D. candidates and coordinating multiple national and[…]

SensOoChip CRACK IT Challenge

NC3Rs has recently announced their 2023 CRACK IT Challenges which includes a mega-Challenge focused on organ chip technology development with £2.6M of funding available to European researchers. This Challenge aims to improve the utility and reproducibility of connected organ-on-a-chip (OoC) devices by integrating real-time multiparametric monitoring. For more information on how to apply, register for the[…]

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Andries van der Meer

Dr. Andries D. van der Meer is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Twente, The Netherlands. He is the leader of the Organs-on-Chips research theme in the Applied Stem Cell Technologies group of the Bioengineering Technologies cluster, supervising six Ph.D. candidates and coordinating multiple national and[…]

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Marco Rasponi

Marco Rasponi is Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of Politecnico di Milano. He leads the MiMic (Microfluidics and biomimetic Microsystems) laboratory, supervising 6 PhD students and coordinating several national and international research projects on organ-on-chip applications. After receiving his PhD degree in 2006 on bioMEMS design, he joined the[…]