The European Organ-on-Chip Society (EUROoCS) is an independent, not-for-profit organization established to encourage and develop Organ-on-Chipresearch, and to provide opportunities to share and advance knowledge and expertise in the field towards better health for...
Report NOCI-retreat 7-8 March 2019 Organized in Utrecht by Renée Moerkens (UMCG), Jens Puschhof (Hubrecht), and Jeroen Stein (LUMC). We began our retreat on Thursday 7th of March in one of the most famous cafés of Utrecht, the Beurs, on the central square of the...
On Wednesday 19th of December, the department of Genetics and the iPSC/CRISPR Center of the UMCG in Groningen organized the 2nd hDMT/UMCG Organ-on-Chip Mini-symposium to illustrate the potential of Organ-on-Chip technology for biomedical research. Three experts in the...
Understanding the human body is difficult. Especially if we don’t want to understand just any body, but specifically yours. What happens when you get sick? Why do you respond well to a certain drug or therapy while your neighbour does not? We are used to studying the...
Professor Cisca Wijmenga has been awarded the 2018 United European Gastroenterology (UEG) Research Prize for her outstanding work “A celiac mucosal barrier-on-chip model to investigate its role in initiation of celiac disease”. For more information about UEG and the...
Prof. Christine Mummery heeft de LUMC-Premie toegekend gekregen. Mummery ontvangt de premie voor haar brede verdiensten voor het LUMC, in het bijzonder voor haar wetenschappelijke prestaties. Ze is een internationaal ambassadeur voor het LUMC en zoekt veelvuldig de...
