I have the privilege to work in the lab of Steven Kushner and Femke de Vrij, within the Department of Psychiatry at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam. Our lab focuses on neuropsychiatric disorders of the brain, like Schizophrenia and Angelman syndrome. Because...
If you would have told me 15 years ago that I would spend my PhD transforming cells that are found in urine towards intestinal epithelial cells and into a miniature intestine on-chip, I would not have believed it. Even today, it still sounds a bit like science...
As a scientist with a background in microengineering, I was intrigued early on by the interaction of microsystems with the living world. The field of microengineering includes the exploration of the physics of sensors, actuators and their fabrication at the...
Berend van Meer (LUMC), samen met Paul Vulto (Mimetas) en Bert de Vries (TU Eindhoven) in een podcast van BNR Eyeopeners “Medicijnen specifiek gemaakt voor jouw eigen lichaam” (in Dutch). Listen here to the podcast. Medicijnen specifiek gemaakt voor jouw...
One of the areas that NOCI is investigating is the development of brain-on-a-chip models for epilepsy. I was recently invited to write a Dutch piece in the journal “Epilepsie, periodiek voor professionals”, where we explain how we can replicate and analyze complex...
When I was an undergraduate student, I learned in a journal club that the lab of Hans Clevers in Utrecht had just shifted the boundaries of cell biology and tissue engineering: Single adult stem cells from patients’ biopsies – cultured under the right conditions –...
