Schedule
08:00 Registration/Set up posters
09:00 Welcome/introduction by Stefan Krauss (U. Oslo/OUS)
09:10 - 09:40 Opening Keynote: Andries van der Meer (U. Twente).
Organ-on-Chip: From Scientific Breakthrough to Real-World Impact.
Session 1 (academic) Session chair: Øyvind Halaas (NTNU)
- 09:40-10:10 Keynote I: Jeffrey Beekman (UMC Utrecht)
Precision medicine with cystic fibrosis intestinal organoids.
10:10 - 10:50 PI talks (10 min each)
10:10 – 10:20 Viola Lobert (OsloMet) - Developing a human testis organoid model for mechanistic insight into testicular cancer.
10:20 – 10:30 Pierfrancesco Pagella (Linkoping U., SE) - Organ-on-a-chip-based modeling of innervated and vascularized oral cancers in fully-defined engineered extracellular matrices.
10:30 – 10:40 Øyvind Halaas (NTNU) - Engineering of a partial lymph node for enhanced T cell therapy.
10:40 – 10:50 My Hedhammar (KTH, SE) - FN-silk: Functionalized recombinant silk as ECM-mimic for advanced in vitro models.
10:50 - 11:30 PD/PhD flash talks (5 min each)
10:50 – 10:55 Ludivine Delon (U. Oslo) - Towards Placenta-Endometrium Integration-on-chip.
10:55 – 11:00 Afrah Aboo (KU Leuven, BG) - Engineering functional vascular networks on chip for inflammation and cancer models.
11:00 – 11:05 Mauro Calvoli (U. Tromsø) - Assessing mitochondrial transfer in engineered heart tissue.
11:05 – 11:10 Sara Peisl (by Henry Hoyle) (OUS) - Exploring the role of biliary bacteria as drivers of cholangiopathy.
11:10 – 11:15 Parvin Najafianamaghi (Tampere U., FI) – Coupling Bone Tissue Engineering and Vascularization.
11:15 – 11:20 Marissa Maciej-Hulme (OsloMet) - Deciphering organoid models with changes in protein glycosylation.
11:20 – 11:25 Margrethe Cecilie Stahl (NTNU) - An in vitro lung alveoli model with co-culture of pulmonary epithelial and fibroblast cells.
11:25 – 11:30 Mathias Busek (U. Oslo) - The pumpless recirculating Organ-on-Chip (rOoC) platform, a unique platform for vascularization and immune-cell perfusion.
11:30 – 12:30 lunch break/ Poster session I - poster nr 1-28 (poster list)
Session 2 (industry) Session chair: Liisa Vilén (AstraZeneca)
- 12:30-13:00 Keynote II: Syam Nair (AstraZeneca)
Smarter imaging using AI. - 13:00-13:30 Keynote III: Olivier Guenat (U. Bern and AlveoliX )
Microengineered Lung Parenchyma: Alveolar and Vascular-on-Chip Models. - 13:30-13:45 Flash talks Norwegian startups (5 min each)
-Oncosyne AS
-DuctMimic AS
-Cellspace
13:45 – 14:10 Coffee break / Poster session II - poster nr 29-41 (poster list)
14:10-14:40 Ethics and legal session: Chair: Heidi Bentzen (U. Oslo)
- Rosario Isasi (U. Miami) – New ISSCR guidelines (10 min - ONLINE)
- Anne Forus (Norwegian Directorate of Health) – Legislation (10 min)
- Heidi Beate Bentzen (U. Oslo) – Embedded ethics (10 min)
14:40-15:00 Coffee break
Session 3 (academic) Session chair: Åsa Birgisdottir (U. Tromsø)
- 15:00-15:30 Keynote IV: Florian Weinberger (CNIC Madrid)
Insights into Cardiac Repair Mechanisms from Engineered Heart Tissue.
15:30 - 16:20 PI talks (10 min each)
15:30 – 15:40 Anna Herland (KTH, SE) - Neurovascular in vitro models – Modelling intraventricular haemorrhage.
15:40 – 15:50 Johanne Egge Rinholm (U. Oslo) - Modeling Human Brain Development and Ischemic Injury with Organoids.
15:50 – 16:00 Stefan Krauss (U. Oslo/OUS) – Stem cell derived embryo models.
16:00 – 16:10 Åsa Birna Birgisdottir (U. Tromsø) - Exploiting engineered heart tissue to decipher mitochondria quality control in the human heart.
16:10 – 16:20 Steven Wilson (U. Oslo) - Enabling efficient and robust drug analysis with microphysiological systems
16:20 - 16:50 PD/PhD flash talks (5 min each)
16:20 – 16:25 Amber Consul (USAMRIID, US) - Use of MPS system for toxin pathogenesis evaluation.
16:25 – 16:30 Jeremy Yeoh (OUS) - Developing 3D models for immune-cholangiocyte crosstalk.
16:30 – 16:35 Aleksandra Aizenshtadt (U. Oslo) - Human liver tissue-derived organoids recapitulate donor-specific traits during culture and disease modeling.
16:35 – 16:40 Liliana Capinha (Novonordisk, DK) - Evaluation of microphysiological systems for the in vitro assessment of potential drug-drug interactions risk from GalNAc-siRNAs.
16:40 – 16:45 Lisa Wolff (MSH Hamburg, DE) - Beyond Matrigel: A Roadmap for Systematic Matrix Selection and Evaluation in Organoid Research.
16:45 – 16:50 Sandra Kristiansen (OUS) - Development and Optimization of a 3D Prostate Cancer Co-Culture Model for Targeted Alpha Therapy Using [²¹²Pb]Pb-FAPI-46.
16:50-17:00 Coffee break
17:00 – 17:30 Panel discussion II, chair: Liisa Vilén (AstraZeneca)
Collaborate to Accelerate: Developers and End Users Driving Organ on Chip Innovation.
- Grzegorz (Greg) Sienski, AstraZeneca.
- Olivier Guenat, Alveolix.
- Robert Roth, AstraZeneca BioVentureHub.
- Peter Eide, Oncosyne AS.
- Espen Melum, DuctMimic AS.
- Esben Nilssen, ShareLab, Oslo.
17:40 – 18:10 Closing Keynote: Donald Ingber (Wyss Institute, Harvard U.).
Human Organ Chips for Disease Modeling, Drug Development, and Personalized Medicine.
18:10 – 18:15 Poster prize and wrap up by Stefan Krauss
18:15-19:15 EVENING PROGRAM – Organoid Love Party with Steven Wilson band
Mini Concert Event Featuring Steven Wilson with band.
The conference is fully booked, and registration has closed.
Contact and support:
Petter Angell Olsen and Andrea Dalmao-Fernandez
Session Chairs:
Øyvind Halaas (NTNU); Åsa Birna Birgisdottir (U. Tromsø); Liisa Vilén (AstraZeneca) and Heidi Beate Bentzen (U. Oslo).
Organizing committee:
Steven Wilson (U. Oslo); Viola Lobert (Oslo MET); Øyvind Halaas (NTNU); Åsa Birna Birgisdottir (U. Tromsø); Liisa Vilén (AstraZeneca) and Stefan Krauss (U. Oslo).
The event has been supported by UiO:Life Science
