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

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)
  • 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 organ on a chip assay with company representatives

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. 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

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

More speakers to be confirmed!

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

Dr. Mees de Graaf
Regenerative Medicine Specialist
Innovation Center for Advanced Therapies (ICAT)

• • Expert stem cell-derived Organ-on-Chip systems and microphysiological systems
  • iPSC-derived vascular models
  • Microfluidic design and prototyping
  • Received PhD at
    • Orlova lab at Leiden University Medical Center
    • NOCI initiative
  • List of publications

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].