Description

For the third year in a row, AZAR Innovations organizes an Organ on a chip MasterClass focusing on Intestine and intestine-microbiome models on chip, this time in collaboration with Innovation Center for Advanced Therapies (ICAT).

TARGET GROUP: Biomedical scientists from academia and industry from around the world who wish to get started or gain more experience with intestine and intestine-microbiome on chips.

Date: 7-9 May 2025 (3 full days)
Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands

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

This MasterClass consists of:

1. On-demand interactive e-learning (3 months online access)

• • What is Organ on chips and when you would use these systems?
  • What components an organ on a chip system can have?
  • Classify them to make them easier to understand?
  • Advantages and disadvantages of each classification?
  • How organ chips are made, where you can buy them, which ones to buy?

2. Interactive lectures

• • Advantages and disadvantages of current intestine on chips
  • Available intestine-microbiome on chips
  • Analyze them with the help of trainers
  • Interact with Organ on a chip ShowCase Table (a collection of organ chips from 7 Organ on a chip companies)

3. Hands-on lab training (1 day)

• • Get comfortable with chips and flow systems (3 chip types and 4-5 pumps)
  • Seed cells in the chips, different seeding methods
  • Connect pumps to organ chips and other components
  • Analyze flow parameters
  • Advantages and disadvantages of every chip or flow systems
  • Imaging and sampling protocols   

4. Commercial demos (0.5 day)

• • Work with commercial products under supervision
  • Discuss your intestine on a chip assay with company representatives

Companies to be announced!

5. Design your intestine on a chip assay

• • Step by step approach to adopt or design your own system
  • Design tools to design your own assay
  • Get inspired by our interactive intestine on a chip database
  • Receive feedback from our trainers, experts and your peers

6. 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

“Engineering a miniature gut ecosystem”
Prof.dr. Kerensa Broersen
Applied stem cell Technologies
University of Twente and
NIZO food research

“Rebuild the complexity: an organoids-derived, immune- and microbiome-competent gut model”
Dr. Jianbo Zhang
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbial Food Safety
Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

“A novel physiologically relevant tissue explant gut-on-a-chip model with an aerobic-anaerobic interface to study host-microbe interactions“
Dr. Joanne Donkers 
Scientist human cell biology at TNO
Metabolic Health Research
Sylviusweg 71, 2333 BE
Leiden, The Netherlands

Trainers:

Dr. Hossein Eslami Amirabadi 

• • Bioengineer and entrepreneur
  • 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
  • 3 patents and more than 15 scientific publications in organ on a 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].