Jointly organized by EPFL and hDMT

IOOCS17 brings together researchers from different fields to discuss how chip technology and (stem) cell biology can be combined to develop powerful microsystems that mimic the physiology of real organs outside of the body. The ability to generate such 'organs-on-chip' from human cells has the potential to revolutionize health care.

The symposium is a unique opportunity to interact with leading researchers in the field, both with backgrounds in engineering and stem cell biology.

Keynote lectures by international leaders in the field of 'organs-on-chip', disease model technology, and stem cell biology/technology:

• Nancy Allbritton, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
• Anne Grapin Botton, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Kevin Healy, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• Roger Kamm, MIT, Cambridge, USA
• Christine Mummery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

The annual series of IOOCS symposia is an initiative of hDMT. The Institute of Bioengineering at EPFL is excited to host the second edition of these symposia this year, after a first highly successful meeting that took place at the University of Twente in 2016 (IOOCS16).

The organizing committee:

Matthias Lutolf (Chair, EPFL)
Albert van den Berg (hDMT)
Christina Mattsson (EPFL)
Christine Mummery (hDMT)
Dietrich Reinhard (EPFL)
Philippe Renaud (EPFL)
Janny van den Eijnden-van Raaij (hDMT)

For more information, please contact Ms. Christina Mattsson (Institute of Bioengineering, EPFL), via e-mail: christina.mattsson@epfl.ch