Description

For the second year in a row, AZAR Innovations organizes an Organ-on-chip MasterClass in collaboration with Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Target group:
Biomedical scientists from academia and industry from around the world who wish to get started or gain more experience with organ on a chip systems.

Date:
Start: 08:45 – 9 November 2026
End:    12:30 – 11 November 2026
(2.5 days)

Location:
Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Goal:
Help scientists adopt, develop or use organ on a chip assays more efficiently.

Contents:
This MasterClass consists of:

1. On-demand interactive e-learning (1 month online access)

Engaging sessions with presentations, quizzes and group assignments about:

• Introduction:
  • What is organ-on-chip assay?
  • Why organ-on-chip assay?
  • How to choose or design an organ-on-chip assay?
• Experiment: 
  • Do I need perfusion?
  • Which flow system to choose?
  • How do I calculate the system properties?
• Organ-on-chip libraries: 
  • Databases of published data
  • Databases of commercial systems
  • Databases of enabling technologies

2. Hands-on lab training (2x half a day)

• Chips & Flow:
  • Connect the chips to 5 different perfusion systems
  • Run perfusion systems
  • Common troubleshooting
• Commercial systems:
  • Work with commercial chips or enabling technologies
  • Design your system using commercial systems  

Companies to be announced!

3. Design your organ on a chip assay

• Organ-on-chip Challenge:
• • Design a complete organ-on-chip assay in groups under supervision of the trainers.
  • Start with the use case, continue with identifying the requirements, and choose a system.
  • Use our step-by-step method to design your assay.

4. Expert views

• • Discover applications of organ on chips with experts
  • Learn about Do’s and Don’ts
  • Interact with the experts
  • Get inspiration for your own system design

Speakers to be announced!

Trainers:

Dr. Hossein Eslami Amirabadi 

• • Bioengineer, educator and consultant
  • List of projects
  • Experience with organ on a chip since 2013
  • Board member of the 3Rs Collaborative
  • Co-founder of ARTIC Technologies B.V.
  • Actively advising scientists and entrepreneurs in organ on a chip
  • 4 (pending) patents and more than 15 scientific publications in organ-on-chip (list of publications)

Emre Dilmen, MSc

• • Biomedical scientist and entrepreneur
  • Experience working with organs on chips and organoids since 2019
  • Active in scientific education for 5 years
  • Passionate about bringing innovative biomedical technologies to society
  • 7 publications focusing on organoids and organ-on-a-chip technologies

Cannot attend this event? Take a look at other MasterClasses here, or fill in this form to know about upcoming Organ on a chip MasterClasses.

Any questions? Feel free to send us an email via [email protected].