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Quantitative Assessment of Tissue Chip Technologies

Wednesday, 6 June 2018 at 15:30

Add to Calendar ▼2018-06-06 15:30:002018-06-06 16:30:00Europe/LondonQuantitative Assessment of Tissue Chip TechnologiesOrgan-on-a-Chip, Tissue-on-a-Chip Europe 2018 in Rotterdam, The NetherlandsRotterdam, The NetherlandsSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com

A large percentage of drug candidates fail at the clinical trial stage due to a lack of efficacy and unacceptable toxicity, primarily because the in vitro cell culture models and in vivo animal models commonly used in preclinical studies provide limited information about how a drug will affect human physiology. The need for more physiologically relevant in vitro systems for preclinical efficacy and toxicity testing has led to a major effort to develop “Microphysiological Systems (MPS)”, aka tissue chips (TC), based on engineered human tissue constructs. Translational Center of Tissue Translational Center of Tissue Chip Technologies (TC2T) has been established to bridge between academic research and development and industrial application of MPS technologies via providing unbiased testing and validation of MPS technologies. TC2T takes a holistic and mechanistic approach—based on quantitative systems pharmacology (QSP)— to achieve unbiased characterization of these complex systems and translation of experimental insights to clinical outcomes. Our team at MIT includes tissue engineers, experimentalists, and computational biologists and serves as the core of the testing center to identify adverse effects of pharmaceutical compounds and environmental toxin on human organs.