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University of Twente well represented at the 6th hDMT Annual Meeting on Organ-on-Chip

The annual hDMT Consortium meeting on 25 November decorated Studio33 in Amersfoort in the colours of the hDMT logo and filled the room with more than 165 enthusiastic hDMT researchers.

The University of Twente attended with 15 researchers from various groups. PhD-student Tarek Gensheimer (AST group) presented his research on an open-top OoC-platform for the outer blood-retinal barrier. PhD-student Huub Weener (AST group) received the third prize in the PhD Spotlight Competition with his video on his COVID & vessels research (video below).

ANNUAL MEETING

After a welcome by Christine Mummery, chair of hDMT, senior scientists lectured about several topics, including the development within hDMT of standardized platforms for Organ-on-Chip, multi-Organ-on-Chip platforms to predict pharmacokinetics, metabolism in Organ-on-Chip models, and the challenges and opportunities that will be addressed in the new hDMT Bone-on-Chip group. As usual, Janny van den Eijnden-van Raaij, managing director of hDMT, informed the Consortium about the hDMT of today and tomorrow. Many young talents presented their latest results with highlights on different Organ-on-Chip models: vessels, intestine, cancer, blood-retinal-barrier, liver, lung and skeletal muscle. The University of Twente was mentioned frequently in presentations as a valued collaboration. 

hDMT

hDMT is a non-profit foundation forming the Dutch consortium on organs-on-chip research and technology, finding its many partners in universities, medical centres and knowledge institutes. Researchers from different disciplines, varying from technology and biology to pharmacologists and clinicians, share their complementary expertise, facilities and ideas as a community. With various theme-groups they address the many challenges in organ-on-chip research, development and translation. In the yearly meeting researchers from all partners come together to present their work and build new collaborations.

Winning video from Huub Weener