Embedding Organ-on-Chips in research and educationEmbedding Organ-on-Chips in research and education
Personal information
Organisation | University of Twente |
Position | Adjunct Full Professor |
Biography
Group leader on Microfluidic Organ-on-Chip development in the Applied Stem Cell Technologies department. President of the European Organ-on-Chip Society (EUROoCS). Chair of the Focus Group on Standardization for Organ-on-Chip of the European standardization body CEN CENELEC.
Andries van der Meer holds a Master's degree in Medical Biology from the University of Groningen, and received his doctoral degree in 2010 on the thesis 'Microfluidic Technology in Vascular Research: The Endothelial Response to Shear Stress', conducted under the supervision of Prof. Jan Feijen and Prof. István Vermes at the University of Twente's Faculty of Engineering Science. Between 2010 and 2015, Dr. van der Meer worked as a post-doctoral researcher and later as a 'Senior Research Fellow' at the University of Twente in the group of Prof. Albert van den Berg and at the Wyss Institute of Harvard University in the group of Prof. Don Ingber. Dr. van der Meer received an appointment at the University of Twente in 2015 as Tenure Track University Lecturer in the Department of Applied Stem Cell Technologies. Since 2022, he is Adjunct Professor and coordinates several research projects in the field of organ-on-chip technology. He is the university's delegate in the participant council of hDMT - the national 'Organ-on-Chip' consortium, and he actively focuses on application of organ-on-chip systems in biomedical and pharmacological research in for eye disease, vascular disease and thrombosis.
Programme
Time | Session | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|
13.15 - 14.30 | Organ on a chip: Better designs, better health | Innovation Stage | Ground floor |