NOCI Postdoc Jean-Philippe Frimat was invited to write a piece in the journal “Epilepsie, periodiek voor professionals”, on how to replicate and analyze complex epileptic electrophysiological recordings using brain on-a-chip systems and automated analytical softwares. He will share it here in English.

Jens Puschhof, former NOCI PhD-student at Hubrecht Institute, is giving an inside to his PhD journey between organoids and organs-on-chips.

Femke de Vrij, NOCI researcher and Associate Professor at Erasmus MC, has been intrigued by the brain since her study Medical Biology . Here she describes what is so exciting about working on the BoC.

This week we received the great news that the NOCI Program will be continued for a second term of 5 years, until October 2027. Congratulatons to all!

Kieu Le, NOCI Postdoc at UMCG, takes a daily dive but not into the water to study aquamarine, but in a blood vessel to study infectious disease pathology.

The price for best presentation at the EVBO summer school 2021 went to Dennis Nahon (NOCI PhD-student from LUMC) for the presentation of his work on ‘A Modular 3D NVU-on-a-chip model for studying vascular dementia’.

Paul Motreuil-Ragot, NOCI PhD-student at TU Delft, highlights the exploration of new techniques at TUD for manufacturing OoC, such as high resolution 3D printing.

Podcast with Berend van Meer, NOCI researcher/business developer from UTwente and LUMC, on Organ-on-Chips (in Dutch).

Happy PhD-students and Postdocs during the Face-to-Face Retreat. José Manuel Rivera Arbelaez, NOCI PhD-student at the University of Twente, highlights the retreat taking place in Amsterdam.

Milica Dostanić has received the Travel Award for the presentation at the EUROoCS 2021 meeting. She presented her work on; ‘An engineered heart tissue platform with integrated pacing microelectrodes’.