Kennedy Okeyo's Biography

Kennedy Okeyo, Senior Lecturer, Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University

Dr. Kennedy O. Okeyo is currently a senior lecturer at the Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University. He graduated with a PhD in mechanical engineering from Kyoto University, Japan, and worked briefly in a company thereafter. Prior to his current appointment, he worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan. His current research interests includes tissue engineering, biomicrofluidics, and cellular biomechanics, with specific focus on stem cell function manipulation based on cell-material interactions.

A Mesh Culture Technique for Fabricating Organ-on-chip and Organoids

Wednesday, 6 June 2018 at 16:00

Add to Calendar ▼2018-06-06 16:00:002018-06-06 17:00:00Europe/LondonA Mesh Culture Technique for Fabricating Organ-on-chip and OrganoidsOrgan-on-a-Chip, Tissue-on-a-Chip Europe 2018 in Rotterdam, The NetherlandsRotterdam, The NetherlandsSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com

With increasing focus on organ-on-a-chip and organoids, the ability to fabricate standalone tissues in a microfluidic platform is increasingly becoming important. This talk will introduce a mesh culture technique, dubbed “The Shoji Technique”, which enables fabrication of standalone tissues compatible with a microfluidic platform. Application toward the realization of organ-on-a-chip capable of recapitulating direct crosstalk between different constituting cell layers of an organ (e.g. epithelial and endothelial layers) will be demonstrated.

Add to Calendar ▼2018-06-05 00:00:002018-06-06 00:00:00Europe/LondonOrgan-on-a-Chip, Tissue-on-a-Chip Europe 2018Organ-on-a-Chip, Tissue-on-a-Chip Europe 2018 in Rotterdam, The NetherlandsRotterdam, The NetherlandsSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com

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