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As organoid technologies advance, become more diverse, and increase in biosimilarity to human organs, the ethical landscape becomes more and more challenging to navigate for technology developers and policymakers alike. In his talk at the BIRDIE innovation workshop on March 12, Dr. Maxence Gaillard will discuss how to approach the complex question of bioethics in the age of microphysiolical systems. Maxence Gaillard is a philosopher of science and bioethicist with interests in neuroscience and biotechnology, including stem cells and microphysiological systems. As a researcher at UCLouvain and the University of Oslo and a member of the H2020 SwafS bioethics project HYBRIDA, he has conducted ethical assessments of tumoroids, embryo models, and other stem cell derived technologies. 🔗 Want to learn more about the event? Check out the link in the comments.

🚨 Vacancy alert, this time around for a PhD candidate 😁 🚨 Dear Community, We are excited to announce an opportunity for you to join our PhD position and our team as part of the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant project, NEPHRON - Nurturing Environment: BioPrinting Human Renal Organ Networks. 🗓️ Application Deadline: 23rd March 🔗 More Information & Application details: https://lnkd.in/eFu8Mf32 About the Role: Join us in pioneering research in the field of bioprinting and kidney in vitro models. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking work and collaborate with leading experts in the field. 📢 Please share this post with your network and help us spread the word! #Vacancy #PhD_position #bioprinting #invitromodel MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine https://lnkd.in/eFu8Mf32

How can in vitro kidney models make way for new ways to treat kidney diseases? This is one of the many important questions addressed at the BIRDIE workshop on March 12. For the workshop, we are delighted to be joined by Dr. Jitske Jansen who will provide an industry perspective on this topic and present the work performed at Sequantrix, developing new anti-fibrotic drugs targeting kidney, heart, and bone marrow fibrosis. Dr. Jitske Jansen is the Group Leader Target Validation at Sequantrix GmbH. She is the awardee of the TOPX Female2Follow Rising Star in Science Award 2022. Jitske has been instrumental in developing complex organoid model systems and has been a Group Leader for Translational Kidney Research at the Institute of Experimental Medicine and Systems Biology at Uniklinik RWTH Aachen. Want to learn more about the event? Check out the link in the comments. 🔗 #KidneyDisease #OrganOnChip #Organoid

👨🔬 👩🔬 Open postdoc position in with BIRDIE coordinator Carlos Miguel Domingues Mota and the ERC project NEPHRON. Check out the details below. 👇

Creating design standards for organ-on-chip technologies is important to enable quantitative comparisons and to ensure human in vivo relevance. In his talk at the upcoming BIRDIE workshop on March 12, Prof. Andries van der Meer will discuss the value of OoC standardization and strategies for achieving wider end-user adoption and regulatory acceptance. Andries van der Meer is Full Professor of Microphysiological Systems at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. Van der Meer is the president of the European Organ-on-Chip Society (EUROoCS). He also served as chair of the Focus Group on Standardization for Organ-on-Chip of the European standardization body CEN CENELEC. He is a leading international proponent of standards-driven innovation in the field of organs-on-chips. Want to learn more about the event? Check out the link in the comments. 🔗

💡 How can organ-on-chip technologies and other advanced in vitro methods take the step from the lab bench to becoming a driver for increased drug development efficiency and new biomedical innovations? On March 12, the BIRDIE consortium will gather international experts to discuss the opportunities offered by advanced in vitro research models, and what challenges that need to be overcome in order to create befefit for patients worldwide. Talks by Andries van der Meer, Carlos Miguel Domingues Mota, Eric van der Veer, Jitske Jansen, and Maxence Gaillard Read more about the event on the BIRDIE webpage: https://lnkd.in/dq4MbH83 #OrganOnChip #KidneyDisease #Bioprinting #Research #Innvoation #3Rs

🎉 Huge congratulations on your achievement from the entire BIRDIE consortium! 🎉 🚀 We thank you for your valuable contributions to the project and for being part of our journey to create tomorrow's solution for kidney disease research.

🎉 Huge congratulations to BIRDIE coordinator Carlos Miguel Domingues Mota on receiving the ERC Consolidator Grant! 🎉 🚀 The grant is an amazing achievement and will enable research that can provide even more depth and insight into kidney function and development to the technologies and applications that we are creating in BIRDIE #KidneyDisease #Bioprinting #Organoid

The RMeS Lab had the pleasure of hosting Franck Halary for an insightful presentation titled: "Engineering of Complex In Vitro Models to Study Viral Infections." Thanks again, Franck, for your great presentation and the nice scientific discussion that followed! Nantes Université Inserm Inserm Grand Ouest CHU de Nantes Oniris Nantes

🚀 Helen Kearney, PhD candidate at BIRDIE consortium member MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, has been shortlisted for the Promega Rising Researchers Award! We at BIRDIE congratulate Helen on her well-deserved achievement and are exciteted to follow where her research into bioprinted kidney organoids will take her. Make sure to visit the competition site and cast your vote for Helen to support her important research. 👉 https://lnkd.in/d_5fw7TC #bioprinting #organoids #kidneydisease