Kick-off Meeting LymphChip

februari 21, 2022

February 15, 2022

The Kick-off Meeting was organized in Spatial Chat in view of COVID-19 restrictions.

In total 44 members of LymphChip participated representing the academic partners, co-financing partners and the Advisory Board.

Plenary sessions were held to present the aims of LymphChip, to learn about the expectations and contributions from co-financing partners and to evaluate the impact plan, and future plans. In 3 consecutive breakout sessions technical requirements, biological platforms/disease models and the three on-chip-models for heart, intestine and skin/lymph node were discussed. Finally, also the first plans for education and dissemination were presented.

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