Description

AZAR Innovations organizes an Organ on a chip MasterClass 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 organ on a chip systems.

Date:
Start: 08:45 – 1 October 2025
End:    17:00 – 3 October 2025
(3 full days)

Location:
Utrecht Science Park Zeist, Utrechtseweg 48, 3704 Zeist, the Netherlands

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 (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 organ on chips
  • Available organ on a chip systems
  • 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)
  • NEW: Seed cells in the chips, try 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. Hands-on commercial demos (0.5 day)

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

Dynamic42 GmbH provides immunocompetent, physiological organ-on-chip models combining ISO-certified, medical-grade standards with ease of use for scientists. Dynamic42 offers contract research for preclinical drug evaluation in human models of the vasculature, liver, cancer, intestine, and lung as well as customized model development. The company further is producer of the DynamicOrgan System the open organ-on-chip platform, provides a variety of low drug adsorption biochips and hands-on as well as online training courses within their Dynamic42 Academy.

Microfluidic ChipShop
Microfluidic ChipShop is the leading provider for tailor-made microfluidic systems including instrumentation, microfluidic disposables and assay integration, as well as off-the shelf catalogue products for droplet generation, organ-on-chip assays, micro mixing, sensor integration and many more applications.

Proefdiervrij
A world without laboratory animals, that is our goal. We are fighting against animal suffering and for a better, healthier future for all of us. Our collaboration with science brings change. Together with people who have the drive to get ahead of the troops, we are making a difference.

More companies to be announced!

5. Live virtual lab session: Maintaining and assessing high quality intestinal organoid cultures by STEMCELL Technologies

Trainer: Julie Watson, Scientific Support Scientist
Backup trainer: Shyam Jose, Scientific Support Specialist

In this interactive session, scientists from STEMCELL Technologies will explain how to set up and passage intestinal organoids. The session will combine lecture slides and pre-recorded laboratory demonstrations. We’ll overview the techniques involved, review typical morphologies, and demonstrate the organoid establishment and passaging protocols. You will be able to ask questions in real time about technical aspects of the workflow, and how organoids can be used to facilitate your research.

6. Design your organ 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 organ on a chip database
  • Receive feedback from our trainers, experts and your peers

7. 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
NIZO food research and
University of Twente
Enschede, the Netherlands

Dr. Jean-Philippe Frimat
leiden University Medical Centre
Leiden, the Netherlands

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
  • 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].