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2026/02/10 📢 Europe Launches World’s First Microphysiological Systems Industry Alliance
Europe is taking the global lead in human‑relevant science. Today, nine pioneering European companies announce IAMPS – the Industry Alliance for Microphysiological Systems – the world’s first industry association dedicated to advancing MPS technologies.
IAMPS unites AlveoliX (Switzerland); BiomimX® Srl (Italy); chiron (Netherlands); Dynamic42 GmbH (Germany); InSphero (Switzerland); MIMETAS (Netherlands); NETRI (France); React4life (Italy) and TissUse GmbH (Germany), as Europe’s top innovators in organoids, organs‑on‑chips, and next‑generation human‑biology platforms. These technologies – core to Europe’s strategic autonomy – offer more accurate, ethical, and future‑proof alternatives to outdated animal models, strengthening public health, scientific excellence, and European competitiveness.
IAMPS will proactively drive regulatory acceptance, accelerate qualification and standardisation, secure European tissue access and biobanking, and champion strategic EU investment to ensure Europe stays in the lead of the global MPS race.
Thibault Honegger, President of IAMPS, CEO of NETRI, comments: “We are at a critical moment for NAMs, with a strong push from international regulatory bodies in 2025, including explicit guidance for several contexts of use to phase out animal models. Although the EMA has been working on NAMs for a long time, there is an urgent need for the global health industry to work with industrial MPS providers. This will benefit both the needs of the global health industry as well as the expectations of regulatory agencies. Europe invented this field: now, we are organising amongst ourselves to own its future. As a joined IAMPS force, we’re committed to establishing MPS as a strategic European technology, driving growth in the industry, as well as scientific progress and public health improvements. Together with Paola Occhetta and Jos Joore, and the support of our board of directors, IAMPS is ready to shape the future of NAMs in Europe, and throughout the world.”
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Challenges to translation in microfluidics and organ-on-chip, Glasgow, 27 February 2026
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Agenda:
8:30 Registration
8:50 Welcome (Huabing Yin & Elsa Batista)
9:00-10:30 Session1: Future Outlooks (Chair – Huabing Yin)
9:00-9:25 (Keynote) Prof Martin Knight (Queen Mary University of London)
9:25-9:40 Dr. Elsa Batista (Instituto Português da Qualidade)
9:40-9:55 Prof Lourdes Basabe (University of the Basque Country – EHU)
9:55-10:10 Prof Matt Dalby (University of Glasgow)
10:10-10:25 Dr Sally Peyman (Heriot-Watt University)
10:25–11: 00 Coffee Break, Exhibition and Poster
11: 00- 12:25 Session 2: Standardisation (Chair – Thomas Schrøder Daugbjerg)
11:00-11:25 (Keynote) Dr Massimo Mastrangeli (Delft University of Technology)
11:25 -11:40 Dr Vania Silverio (INESC MN)
11:40 -11:55 Prof Nikolaj Gadegaard (University of Glasgow)
11:55-12:10 Dr Darwin Reys (NIST)
12:10-12:25 Maria Emmerich (Technical University of Munich)
12:25 -12:45 Session 3: Flash talks (Chair – Kevin Romieu)
12:45-14:00 Lunch, exhibition, Poster
14:00-15:20 Session 4: Industrialisation (Chair: IMT)
14:00-14:25 Professor Nan Zhang (University College Dublin)
14:25-14:40 Dr Axel Hochstetter (Lifeonchip)
14:40-14:55 Dr Alex Vasiev (The Sanner group)
14:55- 15:10 TBC
15:15-15:45 Round Table discussion, “Show-stopping Challenges in organ-on-chip” Panellists: Dr Sally Peyman, Dr Joshua Loessberg-Zahl; Prof Julien Reboud
15:50 -16:00 Closing remarks
16:00-17:30 Reception