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 tract...

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...

Do you want to learn about X chromosome inactivation and X-linked intellectual disability, read the post of our NOCI PhD student Kyra Swildens.

Get to know NOCI PhD student Muriel Holzreuter from University of Twente. And learn about measuring TEER in 3D Vessels-on-Chip.

Researchers from University Medical Centers in Leiden, Utrecht and Rotterdam in the Netherlands jointly affiliated within hDMT, intend to develop new organ and disease models using human stem cells

Get to know the Immunogenetics group of the Department of Genetics at the UMCG. The group focuses on the development of organoid and Organ-on-Chip models of the human gut and liver.

Are you interested to develop innovative wafer-scale microfabrication technologies for advanced silicon- and biodegradable technology-based Organs-on-Chip (OoC)?

Do you want to learn what it is like being a bioinformatician in a lab with predominantly biologists, read the post of our NOCI PhD student Maurits Unkel.