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🔬 EUROoCS, 22-24 June 2026, 👉 https://euroocs.eu/annual-meeting
The EUROoCS 2026 Annual Meeting will bring together leading experts from academia, clinical research, industry, regulatory agencies, and policymakers to explore the latest breakthroughs in organs-on-chip and microphysiological systems (MPS). Over two and a half days, the conference will feature plenary and keynote lectures, scientific sessions, poster presentations, and industry showcases, providing ample opportunities for interdisciplinary networking and exchange. Topics will include disease and multi-organ models, organ-on-chip, PK/PD modelling, biofabrication and biomaterials, standardization and toxicity, among others.
Works @ EUROoCS 2026
Uncovering human-specific mechanisms of nuclear chromatin organization using retinal organoids
Matilde Ercolano1, Olga Carreira1, Meghna Joon2, Karissa Hansen2, Michael I. Robson2, Sandra Tenreiro1
1 iNOVA4Health, NOVA Medical School, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal.
2 Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Berlin, Germany.
Modeling retinal injury in human organoids to explore Müller glia regenerative responses
Daniel Pereira1, Beatriz Felgueiras1, Luana Macedo1, Matilde Ercolano1, António Jacinto2, Raquel Lourenço2, Sandra Tenreiro1
1iNOVA4Health, NOVA Medical School, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
2NIMSB – NOVA Institute for Medical Systems Biology, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal
Inês Pires Silva – Neuroimmune crosstalk in Parkinson’s disease: a novel human brain-on-chip to disclose polyphenol metabolites effects – Selected for Flash Talk & awarded with a MPS_NOVA Twinning Travel Grant
Ana Rita Garcia – Unravelling and Modelling Immune Cell Brain Infiltration Using iPSC-Integrated Blood-Brain-Barrier Microphysiological Systems – Selected for Flash Talk & awarded with a EUROoCs Travel Grant
Measurement of velocity and shear stress in particle flows and their implications for biological systems
Elsa Batista1,*, Francisco Seco1, Isabel Godinho1, Kevin Romieu2, Huabing Yin3, Sabrina Kartmann4, Daniel Straubinger4, Florestan Ogheard5, Vania Silverio6,7
1 Metrology Department, Portuguese Institute for Quality, Caparica, Portugal
2 CETIAT, Lyon, France
3 University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
4 University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
5 Florestan Ogheard (independent consultant), Lyon, France
6 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores – Microsistemas e Nanotecnologias (INESC MN) and Department of Physics, Instituto Superior Técnico, ULisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Standardization of engineering in MPS and Organ-on-Chip: needs, challenges and current practices
Suzie Noten1, Nuno Araújo-Gomes2, Joshua Loessberg-Zahl3, Carlo Paggi4, Hiroki Nakae5, Vania Silverio6, Massimo Mastrangeli7
1 Royal Netherlands Standardization Institute (NEN), Delft, the Netherlands
2 Institute for Human Organ and Disease Model Technologies (hDMT), the Netherlands
3 The BIOS Lab-on-a-Chip Group and AST Group at University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands
4 chrn on-chip biotechnologies B.V. (chiron), Maastricht, the Netherlands
5 Japan bio-Measurement and Analysis Consortium (JMAC), Tokyo, Japan.
6 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores – Microsistemas e Nanotecnologias (INESC MN) & Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal.
7 Department of Microelectronics, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
Overcoming translational challenges in organ-on-chip through standardization and interoperability
Vania Silverio1,2,*,Elsa Batista3, Thomas Schrøder Daugbjerg4, Oliver Büker5, Kevin Romieu6
1 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores – Microsistemas e Nanotecnologias (INESC MN), Lisbon, Portugal
2 Department of Physics, Instituto Superior Técnico, ULisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
3 Metrology Department, Portuguese Institute for Quality (IPQ), Caparica, Portugal
4 Danish Technological Institute (DTI), Aarhus, Denmark
5 Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), Borås, Sweden
6 Technical Centre for Heating, Air Conditioning and Air Handling Industries (CETIAT), Lyon, France
📢 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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