Tuesday 9 July 2024
The EUROoCS Conference 2024, held from 3-5 July 2024 at Politecnico di Milano in Milan (Italy), was an energetic event showcasing the latest developments in the Organ-on-Chip (OoC) field.
Of course, the Organ-on-Chip Centre Twente team was present as well as many of our University of Twente Organ-on-Chip researchers!
Besides many talks, posters and companies, the social event took place in the impressive National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci, including a free tour in one of the wings.
The next EUROoCS Annual Meeting will be held in Brussels, again in collaboration with the MPS World Summit.
OoCCT highlights
- Plenary session: Official publication of the international Roadmap for Organ-on-Chip Standardization by Prof.dr. Andries D. van der Meer, scientific chair of OoCCT as well as chair of EUROoCS.
- Dr. Liliana Moreira Teixeira, scientific chair of OoCCT and board member of EUROoCS, chairing the session Barrier-based Models.
- Prof.dr. Andries van der Meer chairing the session Musculoskeletal Models.
- Prof.dr. Albert van den Berg chairing the session Enabling Technologies.
- OoCCT infrastructure project OoCDev was mentioned in the session Updates from National OoC Initiatives, where seven pitches from all over Europe highlighted their national OoC initiative.
- Age-Related Macular Degeneration Patient hiPSC-derived Model of the Outer Blood-Retinal Barrier-on-Chip by Tarek Gensheimer (AST).
- Modeling the heart-brain axis using innovative organ-on-chip technology by dr. Verena Schwach (AST).
- Towards unraveling systemic effects of neurodegenerative diseases with an iPSC-derived microbiome-gut-brain axis on a microfluidic chip by Lena Sophie Koch (AST).
- Huub Weener (AST) chairing the session Vascular and Cardiovascular Models.
- Oxygen levels in a vessel-on-chip as a function of chip materials and medium refreshment intervals by Laura E. de Heus (AST).
- Modelling Sex-Specific Differences in Human Osteoarthritis Using An Osteochondral-Unit-On-Chip by dr. Francisco Conceição (AOT).
- Understanding pathological implications of exercise in LMNA patients using a 3D hiPSC-CM disease model by dr. Carla Cofiño Fabres (AST).
- And poster sessions by Huub Weener (AST), Eric Safai (AST), Mariel Cano-Jorge (AST), dr. José Manuel Rivera-Arbeláez and Tomas van Dorp.
