On October 31st, Lena Sophie Koch successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “The Gut-Brain Axis on Chip to Unravel Inter-Tissue Interactions” The microbiome-gut-brain axis (MGBA) represents the bi-directional path for interaction between the gastrointestinal...
Dr. Marc Vila Cuenca (CADASIL & Orlova group) receives 125,000 euros from Alzheimer Nederland for his research into vascular dementia. Mutations in the NOTCH3 gene are the leading hereditary cause of vascular dementia, affecting approximately 1 in 300 people...
On September 23rd, Hande Aydogmus successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “Integrated Sensors for Organ-on-Chip Platforms.” In her research, she explored the integration of CMOS-compatible cleanroom fabrication methods and field-effect transistor (FET)-based...
On June 26th, Dennis Nahon, successfully defended his PhD thesis titled: ‘Modeling vascular disease using self-assembling human induced pluripotent stem cell derivatives in 3D vessels-on-chip.’In this thesis he developed novel models to study vascular diseases, to...
X chromosome inactivation and X-linked intellectual disability Already 8 months ago, I started my PhD in the Gontan lab at de Department of Developmental Biology at the Erasmus MC. Before starting my PhD, I studied neurobiology and performed research projects on for...
It was about five months ago that I started my PhD in the BIOS Lab on a Chip group at the University of Twente. Our group works on a wide variety of topics in the realm of micro- and nanofluidics. Within this interdisciplinary group, I focus on adapting electrode...
