Publication by NOCI PhD student Heleen Middelkamp et.al. (UTwente)

NOCI researcher Heleen Middelkamp from the University of Twente has published a paper in Scientific Reports on January 26th, where she and the co-authors demonstrated that culturing neurovascular unit (NVU) cell types on microfluidic chips changes their gene...

My life as an organ-on-a-chip

My life as an organ-on-a-chipDiary notes from the perspective of an organ-on-chip MondayFinally, it’s Monday morning, which means that I get some new medium (food) and that I get to play the main role in some exiting experiments that are planned this week. Let me...

NOCI through 2020 for its young investigators

As we all are embedded in the midst of the new-normality and with the constant alert that the year 2020 brought to our daily lives, it is also good to step back trying to gain some perspective on what we have done together and plan for this 2021 For NOCI PhD students...

A silver lining on the pandemic

As a mother of three young children, I hardly ever have time to go to international congresses. But if something good has come out of this pandemic is that many conferences and trainings are now virtual. One of the advantages of these on line events is that you have...

English version of ‘Mini Organs-on-Chips’ is now available

After the successful launch of the Dutch version, as of today, also the English version of our booklet entitled ‘Mini Organs-on-Chips: Towards new research models for studying disease and finding treatments’, is available. It is also the first time that...