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december 6, 2023
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Inaugural lecture Hans Bouwmeester LymphChip
On November 22, Hans Bouwmeester, PI in LymphChip presented his inaugural lecture entitled: “Is complexity always better? Connecting cells to systems in toxicology”. Within LymphChip, Hans Bouwmeester takes the lead in the development of an immunocompetent Intestine-on-chip model.
Young TPI Impact Workshop October 31: Still some spots left
Early-career researchers:
Please sign up for the Young TPI Impact Workshop on October 31st in Utrecht.
A few in-person spots are still available.
Sign up now and don’t miss out: https://lnkd.in/eQJP42KA In this hands-on workshop, we’ll dive into topics such as overcoming animal bias in publishing, transforming research into products and services, and communicating your findings […]
3rd Annual Meeting LymphChip
On October 21-22, the third Annual Meeting of LymphChip took place at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), bringing together 35 participants from our academic and co-financing partners, as well as members of the Advisory Board. The event kicked off with research updates from all work packages, providing a comprehensive overview of the progress made […]
Theano Tsikari is invited to give talks and received a travel grant
Theano Tsikari, PhD student within LymphChip at the Orlova lab at LUMC, has been selected to give a flash talk and has also received a travel grant for the EMBO workshop entitled “Building networks: engineering in vascular biology” which is held in Barcelona on May 6-8, 2024. In addition, she has been invited to give […]
LymphChip Summer School 2024
Researchers of both LymphChip and SmartOoC academic partners are invited to attend the LymphChip Summer School 2024 which will feature workshops on career development, business development, academic writing and scientific illustrations. The deadline for registration is May 1, 2024. For more information, please contact Anne Leferink.
Kick-off Immuno-Gut (spin-off LymphChip Helpathon)
The kick-off meeting of Immuno-Gut took place on March 28, 2024 at the Mirai House home of the Department of Anatomy and Embryology of LUMC. This project is financed with a phase 1 Create2Solve grant from ZonMw and aims at the optimization and standardization of methods to produce serum and Matrigel free iPSC derived immune […]
Technology Seminar on custom-made specialty polymers
Hans van der Aa, COO of PolyVation, gave a technology seminar in which he presented the capabilities of PolyVation and the various applications of their custom-made polymers. Depending on the need of the customer, the properties of the polymers can be tweaked to control for instance the physical and biological properties of the materials. Application […]
Nikon Imaging Course
On March 19 and 20, 2024 five PhD students attended an Organ-on-Chip imaging course designed to deepen their understanding of intricate 3D imaging and analysis techniques. This course was organized by the Nikon BioImaging Lab in Leiden. In preparation for this two-day course an online technical seminar was held in which the imaging possibilities were […]
Lifetime achievement award Sue Gibbs
Once every ten years the Willy van Heumen lifetime achievement award is presented to a researcher with a special track record in research to Replace, Reduce and Refine animal studies. On December 12, 2023 Sue Gibbs was awarded with this price for her scientific contribution to reduce the use of animals for experiments, to educate […]
Create2Solve grant
In May 2023, LymphChip organized Helpathon #8 asking help to find animal-free alternatives for serum and Matrigel. As a direct result of this Helpathon, an application was submitted to the Create2Solve Phase 1 call of ZonMw to optimize and standardize methods to produce serum and Matrigel free iPSC derived immune competent intestine: Immuno-Gut. Immuno-Gut got […]