News
Apr 08, 2019
AlveoliX’s Board appoints two new CEOs
In the course of this continuous growth, the Board of Directors has decided to further strengthen the positive momentum with a concentrated charge of expertise. Dr. Janick Stucki, AlveoliX’s Chief Technical Officer, and Dr. Nina Hobi, AlveoliX’s Chief Scientific Officer, have been appointed as the company’s new Co-CEOs. Stucki and Hobi succeed Prof. Olivier Guenat,...
Oct 01, 2018
Giulia Raggi receives award for best MSc Project
As part of her Master in Life Sciences & Technology at EPFL, Ms. Raggi’s work consisted in reproducing a fatal pulmonary disease, acute lung injury, in vitro. Her great job with the lung-on-chip technology has been recognised by EPFL as the best project within her master program. Congratulations Giulia!
Sep 25, 2018
AlveoliX Lung-on-a Chip published in Nature Scientific Reports
The Lung-on-a Chip developed with the ARTORG Center of the University of Bern has just been published in Nature Scientific Reports. This advanced in-vitro system mimics the lung alveolar barrier in an unprecedented way, using a 3 micrometer thin, flexible and porous membrane that is cyclically deflected by a micro diaphragm, like in the lung. This...
Sep 05, 2018
Nuria Roldan wins Best Poster Award at Eurotox
For her work in the field of Replacement methodology, the first RE-Place Best Poster award has been awarded to Dr. Nuria Roldan at the EUROTOX 2018 conference. The poster entitled “Acute lung injury on-chip: building a disease predictive model that emulates alveolar biomechanics”, summarizes the development of a model for acute lung injury-on-chip, a project...
