News

November 2021

'A cookie's journey to the brain' – an interview with the filmmakers 23 November 2021 Flavio Bonani, Haley Ehlers and Arya Lekshimi Nair are three PhD students carrying out research on organ-chips with Mimetas in the Netherlands. Inspired by the three-minute film competition, run by the Organ-on-a-Chip Network's Early Career Research Advisors, they decided to work together to produce a short film titled: A cookie's ... [more]

Technology Touching Life Networks showcase their achievements 11 November 2021 The five UKRI funded TTL networks – 3DBioNet, Imaging BioPro, Integrated Biological Imaging, Organ-on-a-Chip Technologies & PhenomUK - jointly organised a virtual network event on 28 & 29 September to showcase achievements made over the past three years and discuss future directions for the networks. Participants included academics, researchers, industrialists and funders across the UK, ... [more]

August 2021

Grant Prix Ideas Workshop – just what the doctor ordered 11 August 2021 Led by Paul Holloway, Early career advisors Chloe Whitehouse, Matthew Hockley, and Luana Osório, from the Organ-on-a-Chip Technologies Network ran a very successful, online workshop held on 15 & 16 July - encouraging participants to develop skills needed to kick start project ideas that could help lead to future funding. The event ... [more]

April 2021

Projects awarded network funding for organ-chips research 28 April 2021 Over £200K was awarded to fund ten pump-priming projects from the Organ-on-a-Chip Technologies Network in a very competitive final funding round. The primary goal of this award is to help network members leverage additional funding to drive forward their research in organ-on-a-chip technology and predictive in vitro models. Therefore, successful ... [more]

Successful projects for the Organ-on-a-Chip Network & Emulate Proof of Concept Awards 28 April 2021 The Network and Emulate Inc. are pleased to announce that four projects were successful in the recent funding round for the Organ-on-a-Chip Network & Emulate Proof of Concept Awards. The Queen Mary+Emulate Organs-on-Chips Centre, a new core facility at Queen Mary University of London, is open for Network members to ... [more]