On April 18th, 2024 at 5.30 pm, a new appointment of the “Thursday meetings – A glance to the future at cocktail-hour”, organized by EIIT – CNR  Institute, will take place online by Microsoft Teams.

The series of fortnightly meetings deal with specific themes connected to IEIIT – CNR institute with transversal vision through application domains and technological areas with particular attention to their evolutions.

The new seminar will be held by Prof. Massimo Mastrangeli (Delft University of Technology) on the following subject "Organs-on-chip: the electro-mechanical perspective".

Organ-on-chip (OoC) technology is rapidly being established as a valid approach to develop in-vitro models of human (patho)physiology of unprecedented relevance. Advances in the technology involve co-development of the biological substrates and the design of supporting hardware enabling eminently microfluidic perfusion, electro-mechanical actuation and electro-chemical sensing. In this lecture, I will introduce the perspective of fully-electric OoCs and of OoC platforms, meant to foster ease of use, wider adoption and superior reproducibility of the technology. I will argue that virtually all relevant functions in OoCs can be driven and controlled electro-mechanically, and exemplify how this is best achieved by a seamless integration of electric and fluidic layers in the architecture of the platforms.

Participation is free, please register here.