Last week, three of our NOCI members, Milica Dostanic (LUMC/TUD), Dennis Nahon (LUMC), and Reneé Moerkens (UMCG), together with Isabel Sariol (Leiden Institute of Chemistry), won the Proefdiervrij Venture Challenge and were awarded € 25,000. Their team, HeartSmart, is...
On April 2-3, 2025, the hDMT 10-year Anniversary Conference brought together leading scientists and young researchers from hDMT partner organizations to celebrate a decade of innovation in dynamic human models. The event, held in Lunteren, was full of excellent...
On January 22th, Renée Moerkens successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “Re-creating the human intestine at microscale” at the University of Groningen, earning a cum laude distinction. Her research describes the development of an intestine-on-chip: a...
Two years ago, I started my PhD in the Immunogenetics lab run by Sebo Withoff and Iris Jonkers at the Department of Genetics of the University Medical Center Groningen in the context of the NOW Gravitation program ‘Netherlands Organ-on-Chip Initiative’ (NOCI). In our...
On Januari 17th, Laura Windt successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “Tissue Engineered Models of the Human Heart”. Her research describes the tissue engineering of a human cardiac 3D model that is physiologically relevant and qualified to measure contractile...
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...
