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Cinzia Silvestri – Females to Follow Nominee

Our CEO, Cinzia Silvestri, is nominated to the TOPX Females to Follow Awards in the category Rising Stars in Entrepreneurship.

The nominees are 30 amazing female professionals in the Health and Life Sciences sector.

The awards aim at empowering promising and ambitious women, and honouring inspirational females with remarkable careers, so they can be an inspiration to the next generation of women and follow in their footsteps.

The awards will give visibility and celebrate the achievements of three winners in the categories – Rising Stars in Entrepreneurship, Industry and Science (for the full list of nominees, read here)

Voting is possible until the 4th of January 2024 trough this link, and winners will be announced at the TOPX Summit on 18 January in Utrecht.

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

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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Bi/ond combines feeding, stimulating and monitoring of cells in one microchip

We have been featured in the latest Labvision magazine issue !

For a few months, our biology team has been using a Nikon microscope to image some of our experiments. For the moment, we have used it mostly with fixed tissue slides on the basis of fluorescence to look at the suitable expression markers of different cell types, and confirm that the barrier functions properly.

As next step, we will also do live cell experiments with it, for instance to follow up how cells move from one to another compartment; or if you have muscle tissue in a pillar in our MUSbit™, to observe how the flow of medicine affects the muscle contraction.

If you have a hard copy of the magazine, go to pages 56-59 to read more.

If not, check the article here to discover multiple applications of our organ-on-chip technology that can help your own research.

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Skeletal Muscle Poster

Download now our poster :

Stimulating 3D Skeletal Muscle Microtissues in a Novel Perfusable Microphysiological System with Integrated Electrodes

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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 25^th of August joining the 3^rd 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.

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Bi/ond at ACE-SCORE annual meeting

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 31^st 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 31^st of August in Rotterdam?

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Travel with us to Torino for EACR 2023

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 15^th 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!

More events like this?

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Bi/ond at MPS Summit in 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.

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June is full of events for Bi/ond

June is around the corner and we are super excited about it. Why? Because we will be leaving our office behind for some days to show the world about Bi/ond! These are some of the activities that we have planned for next month. Will we see you at any of them?

From 5 to 8^th of June, our CEO, Cinzia Silvestri will be in Boston as part of a Dutch delegation at the BIO International Convention.

We will then travel to Turin from June 12 to 15^th, to join the Annual Congress of the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR 2023). Do not miss our booth, number 58, and an opportunity to learn more about our solutions!

Towards the end of the month, we will cross the border to Germany and participate in the MPS (Microphysiological systems) World Summit (June 26-30^th). You can find us at our booth, (number to be announced) or at one of the several poster sessions where we will be presenting our products and applications.

More information to be posted up soon on Social media – be sure to follow us!

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