Next Gen Organ on a Chip and Organoid Worskshop – CSEM

Thursday, February 06, 2020 – Neuchâtel|Switzerland In this workshop, leaders at the industry and academia in the organ on chip and organoid field discuss the challenges posed by the standardization, automation and/or parallelization of this novel technology. Dr. Janick Stucki will address the issue of complexity and how to face it in his talk “Complex

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First Swiss Biotech CEO meeting – Swiss Biotech Association

Friday, January 31, 2020 – Bern|Switzerland The first edition of the Biotech CEO meeting in Switzerland, which will bring together both emerging and established leaders in the biotech industry to share experiences, challenges and growth opportunities. Dr. Nina Hobi will participate in this meeting organized by the SwissBiotech Association and hosted by CSL Behring at

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Altertox training – In Vitro Lung Models

Thursday, November 14, 2019 – Friday, November 15, 2019 – Geneva|Switzerland This two-day hands-on training hosted by Epithelix will cover practical use of respiratory in vitro 3D tissues and exposure devices to evaluate acute and repeated dose inhalation toxicity. After Dr. Stucki’s introduction in the lecture “Bioinspired Lung-on-Chip”, Andreas Hugi and Aude Rapet will be

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Association of Inhalation Toxicologists Conference – AIT 2019

Monday, October 14, 2019 – Wednesday, October 16, 2019 – Brighton|UK Dr. Nina Hobi will present the “Lung-on a chip technology” in this annual meeting gathering the inhalation toxicology community. During this talk, Dr. Hobi will highlight the opportunities in respiratory toxicology testing brought by advanced in vitro devices. More information: Association of Inhalation Toxicologists

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22nd European Congress on Alternatives to Animal Testing – EUSAAT

Tuesday, October 10, 2019 – Sunday, October 13, 2019 – Linz|Austria  Giulia Raggi and Aude Rapet, kindly sponsored by EUSAAT with a “Young Scientist Travel Award”, will be sharing their contribution to animal replacement in research in this international meeting. Their work, focused on human in vitro lung systems, will be shown in two posters

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7th Galenus Workshop Human in vitro models – Biology meets technology

Monday, September 30, 2019 – Wednesday, October 2, 2019 – Frankfurt|Germany  During this workshop, experts on human in vitro models discuss established and novel systems simulating the human body. Throughout the presentation “Mirroring the alveolus in vitro: clinically-relevant applications of a human breathing alveolus-on-chip”, Giulia Raggi will introduce the AlveoliX lung on chip technology. Later

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European Respiratory Society International Congress – ERS 2019

Saturday, September 28, 2019 – Wednesday, October 2, 2019 – Madrid|Spain   The annual ERS Congress is a showcase of excellence across the entire field of respiratory medicine. In this context, Dr. Nuria Roldan will be showing the latest advances on in vitro lung modelling in health and disease together with applications in toxicology. The oral

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BioMedEng19 – OOC Network event

Thursday, September 5, 2019 – Friday, September 6, 2019 – London|UK   Biomedical, Medical and Bioengineers from the UK and all over the world gather to set new collaboration networks and share scientific breakthrough in the bioengineering field. Within the Organ on chip networking session, Dr. Nuria Roldan will discuss the AlveoliX lung on chip technology

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