Dr. Liliana Moreira Teixeira, scientific lead of the Organ-On-Chip Centre Twente, was awarded €35.000,- for her collaboration with Dr. Nathalie Bravenboer from VU University in the internal call on collaborations between the two institutes.
Project "Bone-on-Chip v2.0"
In 2022, the Amsterdam Movement Sciences Institute (VU/ACTA/AUMC) and UT started a consortium (“VUTURE”) to to jointly develop an organ-on-chip model, to understand the pathophysiology of bone fractures, in particular those of non-unions. The project Broken Bone on Chip v2.0 – Matrix Reloaded, awarded this year to Dr. Liliana Moreira Teixeira (AOT group at UT, see photo) and Dr. Nathalie Bravenboer (AUMC/ACTA), is a continuation of the awarded project in 2022, which has the overarching goal to develop and optimize clinically oriented organ-on-a-chip research technologies and new tissue treatment methods based on tissue engineering. Students from both universities can benefit from this combination of technical and biological expertise via BSc and MSc internships within the collaborative project, site visits and guest lectures. Moreover, a new MSc-course on “MicroPhysiological Systems” will be established at the UT, starting in the academic year 2023-2024, which will also involve a close educational effort with invited lectures from VU.
About the UT-VU call for collaboration
In total 23 highly-varied proposals have been received for the second internal call to further the collaboration on education and research between the VU Amsterdam and the UT. The research proposal is innovative and combines disciplines from both universities and may focus on tapping into new fields of research, on business development or on bringing in new research funding.
