Hossein Eslami Amirabadi's Biography

Hossein Eslami Amirabadi, Scientist, TNO

Hossein Eslami Amirabadi is a junior scientist at The Netherlands organization for applied scientific research, TNO, and leads the technology in the organ on a chip program at TNO. He develops microfluidic systems towards industrial applications mainly focusing on the intestine and microbiome as well as their cross talk with other organs such as the kidney and the liver. He obtained his PhD in the group of Jaap den Toonder at Eindhoven University of Technology in 2018. He developed a microfluidic device to study how physical properties of the extracellular matrix affect breast cancer cell invasion. He then joined TNO and Utrecht University as a postdoc where he, together with a team of biologists and pharmacologists, invented the InTESTine Barrier Chip to test compounds in pharmaceutical and food safety applications.