Berend van Meer,
Chief Technology Officer,
DEMCON Biovitronix and Researcher at LUMC
Berend van Meer completed his MSc Electrical Engineering at Delft University of Technology and his PhD (cum laude) on quantification of in vitro human stem cell models at the Leiden University Medical Center in the lab of professor Christine Mummery. Feeling both at home in a high-tech and a biological lab, Berend tries to bridge the two worlds both in research (LUMC) and real-world applications (DEMCON Biovitronix). Formerly as a hDMT board member and currently as a project leader of the NXTGEN HIGHTECH Growth Fund project “Organ-on-Chip”, he aims to accelerate the establishment of a supply chain for development and fabrication of Organ-on-Chips using platform technology.
Engineering Inspired Biology: Cells as a System Component in a Microphysiological System
Tuesday, 25 October 2022 at 12:30
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Organs-on-Chips and microphysiological systems (MPS) are highly complex devices to develop, not least because they require integration of many different modalities (e.g. material science, engineering, biology). Inherently, cell culture is highly variable and the solution to cope with this is typically to keep environmental features exactly the same since it is often unknown to what extend they are affecting the cell culture. This results in a requirement for highly reproducible devices to test biology, something which is difficult to realize for complex systems such as MPS – especially in research phases. While in this field engineering is mostly used to mimic physiological environments, we could aim to use engineering as a way to actively overcome the variability of biological components. Not by making just a reproducible static environment, but an adaptive environment.
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