Organ-on-a-Chip and Body-on-a-Chip: In Vitro Systems Mimicking In Vivo Functions

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Nancy Allbritton Frank and Julie Jungers Dean of the College of Engineering and Professor of Bioengineering, University of Washington in Seattle	Kristin Fabre Microphysiological Systems Lead, Drug Safety & Metabolism, AstraZeneca	Linda Griffith Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	Olivier Guenat Head, Organs-on-Chip Technologies, ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern-Switzerland	Geraldine A Hamilton President/Chief Scientific Officer, Emulate Inc	David Hughes Chief Technical Officer, CN Bio Innovations Ltd.
Roger Kamm Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	Michael Shuler Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Engineering, Cornell University, President Hesperos, Inc.	George Truskey R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University	Paul Vulto Managing Director, MIMETAS	Martin Yarmush Founding Director of the Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Overview

The 2^nd Annual Organ-on-a-Chip World Congress 2016 focuses on an important and expanding field wherein cells are being assembled using microfluidics and Lab-on-a-Chip technologies in a functionally-relevant manner. These clusters of "assembled cells" have functional significance and can mimic in vivo organ structure.

Liver cells assembled on-board chips in a physiologically-relevant architecture using microfluidics can, for instance, be utilized for toxicity screening and the ability to assemble organ fragments ex vivo can provide an exquisite means to reconstruct biological processes (both physiological and pathological) "in a dish" or "on a chip." A number of chips such Lung-on-a-Chip, Brain-on-a-Chip, Gut-on-a-Chip, Marrow-on-a-Chip, Bone-on-a-Chip, Nerve-on-a-Chip amongst others have been built and will be presented and explored at this conference.

Due to the Overlap of this Topic with 3D-Culture to create a physiologically-relevant milieu in which tissue architecture is preserved and functionality represents the in vivo state, the co-located concurrent parallel conference track focuses on this this topic plus presents the technologies for the construction and assembly of organs-on-chips, thereby offering complete coverage of these related fields to the conference delegates.

The Two Conference Tracks are Co-Located and Concurrent and Delegates can Network Extensively with their Colleagues from Both the Conference Tracks.

All the Key Opinion Leaders from around the World are Participating at this Conference allowing Maximal Information Exchange and Unparalleled Networking Opportunities.

Agenda Topics

3D-Microtissues
Artery-on-a-Chip for Cardiovascular Disease Research
Bone-on-a-chip
Brain/Neuron-on-a-Chip
Cardiotoxicity/Toxicology Testing
Gut-on-a-Chip
Hematological Systems-on-a-Chip
Liver-on-a-Chip for Toxicity Screening/Toxicology Studies
Lung-on-a-Chip
Microfluidics/Lab-on-a-Chip (LOAC) Technologies for Constructing Organ-on-a-Chip/Tissue-on-a-Chip/Body-on-a-Chip
Modeling Disease-on-a-Chip
Organ-on-a-Chip Applications for Drug Discovery
Organ-on-a-Chip/Body-on-a-Chip Assembly
Sensor Integration-on-a-Chip
Technologies for Organ-on-a-Chip Biofabrication

Sponsorship and Exhibition Opportunities

Jeff Fan, Exhibition Manager
jeff@selectbioconferences.com
+1-510-857-4865

Distinguished Faculty

Jonathan Thon, Assistant Professor, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Co-Founder -- Platelet BioGenesis
K. Scott Phillips, Biofilms Research Group Leader, US FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Deborah Sterling, Director, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC
Murat Cirit, Director at Translational Center of Tissue Chip Technologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
John Wikswo, Gordon A. Cain University Professor, A.B. Learned Professor of Living State Physics; Founding Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems, Vanderbilt University
Martin Stelzle, Head of BioMEMS & Sensors Department, NMI at University of Tübingen
Matthew Hancock, Managing Engineer, Veryst Engineering, LLC
Noo Li Jeon, Professor, Seoul National University
Hiroshi Kimura, Professor, Micro/Nano Technology Center, Tokai University
Ioannis Zervantonakis, Research Fellow in Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
Fernando Rafael Jativa, Research Scientist, The University of Melbourne
Hee-Gyeong Yi, Researcher, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
Muhammad Ibrahim, Researcher, Institute of Biology, Leiden University
Luca Businaro, Scientist, Italian National Research Council
Nathalie Picollet-D’Hahan, Senior Project Manager, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA) Grenoble

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