You-on-a chip

Datum

30.04.2019

Zeit

17:00 - 18:00

Sprecher

Dr. Dries Braeken

Zugehörigkeit

Imec, Belgium

Sprache

en

Hauptthema

Biologie

Andere Themen

Biologie, Medizin

Beschreibung

Today, testing of new drug compounds still relies on simple in vitro and animal models before clinical studies can be performed, and therefore, poses huge financial burdens on pharmaceutical industry. However, even at the stage of testing on humans only small patient cohorts are used. This result de facto in a non-personalized treatment as every individual reacts to a therapy in a different way. With new organs-on-chips technology, which can emulate liver, brain, heart, lungs and intestines on chip, combined with the emerging field of human stem cell models, it becomes possible to create a true human, or you, on-a-chip. Dr. Dries Braeken obtained the MSc degree of Biomedical Sciences in 2003 and the PhD in Medical Sciences from the University of Leuven in collaboration with imec in 2009. Since then, he is R&D manager in the Life Science department, working at the cutting edge of interfacing hardware (sensors and actuators, microfluidics) and wetware (cells and tissues) using nanotechnology to create novel tools for personalized medicine.

Links

• to announcement of the organizer

Letztmalig verändert: 30.04.2019, 07:36:05