Bridging Dutch biotech excellence with global entrepreneurial opportunities – panel discussion

Biotech entrepreneurial

Join us next week for Nucleate’s exciting event, where our CEO, Cinzia Silvestri, will participate in a panel discussion focused on Bridging Dutch biotech excellence with global entrepreneurial opportunities.

Under the title: Empowering biotech innovators of tomorrow, this event marks the official launch of the Dutch chapter of Nucleate, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping PhD students and postdocs become successful biotech entrepreneurs. The event will be held on June 11th in Utrecht.

Cinzia will be joined by Kianti Figler, CEO of Upstream Foods; Jeroen Kruter, PM of the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency; and Keno Gutierrez, Partner at BioGeneration Ventures. The panel will engage in an open discussion comparing Dutch and American entrepreneurial cultures, exploring the mindset needed for startups to go global early, and highlighting programs that support the mobility of biotech talent, companies, and investments between the Netherlands and other countries.

Date: June 11th, 2024 

Location: Accelerator, Utrecht Science Park 

Time: 2 – 6 PM

Register here

We look forward to seeing you there and seizing the opportunity to network and collaborate within the vibrant Dutch biotech ecosystem!

Join Cinzia Silvestri at the Ladies Intro from TU Delft Welcome Commitee (OWee)

TU Delft welcome event

Our CEO, Cinzia Silvestri, will share her entrepreneurial success story with 400 incoming female students at TU Delft on June 7th during the IMC Trading Ladies Intro.

This exciting day kicks off with a central opening in the Aula, featuring speeches by Suze Vernooij (Chairwoman OWee), Mette van den Heuvel (Vice Chairwoman OWee), Marjan Kreijns (Director of the Green Village), and Cinzia Silvestri.

Cinzia will discuss her journey from being a student at TU Delft to founding Bi/ond, and what it’s like to run a startup, seek investment, develop a product range, and grow a team—as a woman entrepreneur. She will also highlight the support she has received from her network of colleagues and partners.

This year marks the 31st anniversary of the Ladies Intro Day, a renowned event organized by the new student welcome committee at TU Delft. The event aims to connect and inspire women in technical fields at the university, offering a fun, interactive day where lasting friendships are made.

We look forward to being a part of your journey at TU Delft!

🔗 If you haven’t registered yet, do so here: https://lnkd.in/eU2AhkXf

🔗 If you want to learn more about Bi/ond, check out: https://lnkd.in/e3y26V4k

 

On Demand Webinar: Advancements in 3D modeling – Building mature, functional 3D skeletal muscle microtissues in vitro

Webinar recording now available - Skeletal muscle

If you missed the live session, or want to go back to some of the key aspects of the webinar, you can access now on demand!! 

Watch this webinar if you want to:

  • Discover how to culture 3D muscle cell bundles on Bi/ond’s MUSbit™ platform
  • Learn how to combine Bi/ond’s technology with ioSkeletal Myocites (and other skeletal muscle cells) for measuring muscle contractions triggered by electrical stimulation.
  • Explore the translational potential of the MUSbit™/Let-it-bit™ for pharmacological studies on wild-type and disease model cells. 
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WEBINAR : Advancements in 3D modelling: Building mature, functional 3D skeletal muscle microtissues in vitro

Webinar advances in 3D modelling , 13 October 2023
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Join us for an inspiring session where we present to you how we have  successfully cultured bit.bio’s human iPSC-derived ioSkeletal Myocytes™ on Bi/ond’s perfusable Organ-on-Chip platform, generating 3D skeletal muscle microtissues. 

In this webinar, you will learn how you can reliably generate functional 3D muscle bundles containing striated multinucleated myocytes in less than a week. 

Find out how to pace and train your muscle tissue simulating physiological conditions, achieve accelerated muscle maturation and enhanced contractile response. 

Discover how Bi/ond’s chip technology can unlock the possibilities of your research to study vascularization, dynamic drug response, and even mimic the immune system’s response. 

Key learning objectives

  • Discover how to culture 3D muscle cell bundles on Bi/ond’s MUSbit™ platform
  • Learn how to combine Bi/ond’s technology with ioSkeletal Myocytes for measuring muscle contractions triggered by electrical stimulation
  • Explore the translational potential of the MUSbit/Let-it-bit™ for pharmacological studies on wild-type and disease model cells
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PRESENTATION : Stimulating 3D Skeletal Muscle Microtissues in a Novel Perfusable Microphysiological System with Integrated Electrodes

IIm meeting talk Skeletal Muscle culture

📣 SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 📣

Stimulating Skeletal Muscle Microtissues in a novel perfusable mucrophysiological system integrated with electrodes. This is the title of the presentation that our CTO, Nikolas Gaio, will be giving in Italy soon. The meeting of the Interuniversity Institute of Miology, is taking place in Assisi Italy, 12-15 of October.

During the session, Nikolas will talk to the audience about how Bi/ond has managed to stimulate 3D Skeletal Muscle Microtissues in our perfusable microphysiological system, incorporating integrated electrodes.

He will present the results of our assay where we successfully culture bit.bio skeletal muscle cells on our MUSbit™ platform, obtaining as a result 3D muscle bundles, and experiencing robust muscle contraction.

Do not miss this opportunity to see this ground breaking results in first person!

To get you in the mood for it, you can always visit our website to discover this and other applications for your research : www.gobiond.com/applications/

To attend: https://iim2023.azuleon.org/ 



Visit us at Young TPI Career event

Young TPI career event

We’re excited to announce that Bi/ond will have a booth at the Young Transitie Proefdiervrije Innovatie (TPI) Career Event on September 29th at Yes!Delft. 🌐

Join us as we connect with bright professionals passionate about shaping the future of animal-free science. This is a fantastic opportunity to showcase what Bi/ond does towards making a positive change in drug development and medical research, engage with potential future talents, and inspire a next generation of professionals in the field.

Save the date and secure your spot registering here. 

See you there! 🌍

In Zurich for Next Gen Organoids and organ-on-chip workshop by CSEM

3rd Next Gen Organoids and Organ-on-Chip workshop

We are thrilled to announce that we will be in Zurich on 24 and 25th of August joining the 3rd Next Gen Organoid and Organ-on-Chip workshop, organized by CSEM(*). 

If you are in the pharma & biotech industry, or you are a clinician, regulatory expert or work in a research organization, you may consider joining as well. There will be multiple keynote sessions where some relevant topics will be discussed, amongst others:

  • How to accelerate the translation of advanced in-vitro models into clinical and drug development applications 
  • How to develop innovative products or services based on groundbreaking technologies 
  • How to overcome barriers associated with the adoption of new methods and technologies in a regulated environment 

We hope to see you there!

📅 When: 24 – 25 August 2023, 

📍 Where: Technopark Zürich, Technoparkstrasse 1, 8005 Zurich

▶️ Registration: here

🗣 Language: English

Nikolas and Curt will have some time to meet up front of the workshop on 22nd or 23rd of August if you are interested in learning about the possibilities that our technology can bring to your research

(*)About CSEM: The “Centre Suisse d’électronique et de Microtechnique” (Swiss center of electronics and micro technique) is a public-private, non-profit Swiss technology innovation center that enables competitiveness through innovation by developing and transferring world-class technologies for the industrial sector.

Bi/ond at ACE-SCORE annual meeting

ACE-Score

Bi/ond will be attending the annual meeting of the Erasmus University Academic Center of Excellence for Stem Cells & Organoids in Personalized and Regenerative Medicine (ACE-SCORE). The event will take place of the 31st of August at the Centrale Bibliotheek in Rotterdam. 

What is ACE-SCORE?

Erasmus MC started in 2015 a series of Academic Centers of Excellence to strengthen collaboration between care, research and education, discover new opportunities and inspire each other. ACE SCORE aims to promote interactions and collaborations between fundamental and translational research efforts in multiple disciplines relating to stem cells and organoids, to accelerate innovation and bring regenerative and personalized medicine approaches closer to the patient.

The group’ aim is very close to Bi/ond’s company vision to develop lab technology that will allow for more accurate drug testing and simulations of any tissue type.

We welcome this opportunity to further our relationship with Erasmus Medical Centrum, and learn from their research groups about their struggles, latest discoveries and future plans.

Will we see you on the 31st of August in Rotterdam?

Travel with us to Torino for EACR 2023

EACR 2023 Torino

We are in full preparation mode for EACR 2023, the annual Congress of the European Association for Cancer research.

Our colleagues Liesbeth and Curtis will travel to Turin from 12 to 15th of June to be present at this important event, which highlights the latest research in the oncology field, and brings together the cancer research community.

At our booth, you will be able to find out more about our products, inCHIPit ™ and comPLATE™, as well as their applications for cancer research, and we will be informing also about actual results from some of our partners.

We hope to learn from you about your challenges, and contribute to inspiring you discover a new way of conducting your research through the use of organ-on-chips.

Meet us at booth #58 so we can start building connections and collaborations for a better future for cancer patients!

 

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Bi/ond at MPS Summit in Berlin

MPS Summit Berlin

Bi/ond will be present at the 2nd Microphysiological Systems (MPS) World Summit, to be hosted at the JW Marriott hotelBberlin from 26th to 30th of June.

The agenda will be full of content (nearly 750 abstracts submitted), poster sessions (556) , and networking opportunities.

This is the content of the 4 main tracks:

  • MPS development: bioengineering models and readouts
  • MPS for industrial and regulatory application: standardization, QA, parallelization and automation
  • MPS for disease modelling, safety testing and basic research
  • MPS highlights across disciplines

Will you be there? If you want to make sure we meet, do not forget to register to the free organized matchmaking so you can get your 20-minute-face-to-face talk with one of our colleagues at the event.