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Conferences  \  Organ-on-a-Chip World Congress & 3D-Culture 2016  \  Organs-on-Chips and 3D-Cultures: Technologies and Approaches  \  Agenda  \  Holger Becker
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Holger Becker's Biography


Holger Becker, Chief Scientific Officer, Microfluidic ChipShop GmbH

Dr. Holger Becker is co-founder and CSO of microfluidic ChipShop GmbH. He obtained physics degrees from the University of Western Australia/Perth and the University of Heidelberg. He started to work on miniaturized systems for chemical analysis during his PhD-thesis at Heidelberg university, where he obtained his PhD in 1995. Between 1995 and 1997 he was a Research Associate at Imperial College with Prof. Andreas Manz. In 1998 he joined Jenoptik Mikrotechnik GmbH. Since then, he founded and led several companies in the field of microsystem technologies in medicine and the life sciences. He lead the Industry Group of the German Physical Society between 2004 and 2009 and is Conference Chair for the SPIE "Microfluidics, BioMEMS and Medical Microsystems" conference as well as acting as regular reviewer of project proposals on national and EU level and for several journals devoted to microsystem technologies.

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Reality check – Industrial Development of Organ-on-a-Chip Systems

Thursday, 7 July 2016 at 14:00

Add to Calendar ▼2016-07-07 16:30:002016-07-07 17:30:00Europe/LondonReality check – Industrial Development of Organ-on-a-Chip SystemsSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com

While in recent years the number of academic publications concerning organ-on-a-chip devices has skyrocketed, the transfer of such approach into commercial products faces a variety of specific challenges. The first challenge usually lies in the material selection. Novel materials such as elastomeric thermoplastics materials allow a scale-up in manufacturing while having physical properties closer to the frequently used elastomers in academia. In many applications, specific surface functionalization steps are required for cell adhesion. Again, the scalability and cost are relevant parameters. Finally, further back-end processing steps such as assembly and integration complement the process chain. We will present examples for scalable manufacturing technologies in cell-based devices and discuss hurdles and barriers for commercialization.

Add to Calendar ▼2016-07-07 00:00:002016-07-08 00:00:00Europe/LondonOrgans-on-Chips and 3D-Cultures: Technologies and ApproachesSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com


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