Kidney diseases affects approximately one in every ten individuals globally and Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is predicted to become the 5th leading cause of death worldwide. The main causes for CKD include diabetes and high blood pressure, as well as…
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On March 2, the whole BIRDIE consortium convened in Nantes to discuss the progress made so far in the project and to plan the coming stage to achieve our goals of creating physiologically relevant in vitro kidney models. The meeting…
We are very happy to announced that Erland-Noroit has completed the installation of the customized H.Box Class II biosafety cabinet that they have developed specifically for the BIRDIE project and the Biopixlar bioprinting platform. The new instrument setup will be…
To fit the research needs within the project, our consortium partner Fluicell has developed a switching toolhead for their Biopixlar bioprinting platform.The toolhead combines a high-precision printhead with a microfluidic open volume liquid dispensing tip. The new toolhead with be…
Are you attenging TERMIS-EU 2022 this week? During the conference, there are several opportunities to watch presentations by BIRDIE-associated researchers. The BIRDIE program starts tomorrow, June 28, with the symposium Advanced Biotechnology and Biofabrication approaches for soft tissue engineering and…
Join us tomorrow at 15:00 CEST for an exciting stakeholder workshop on the future of in vitro models, gathering experts from multiple areas to discuss new opportunities for research and diagnostics. You can join the workshop live on YouTube here:…
In this edition of BIRDIE voices, we meet Dr. Vivek Damodar Ranjan, a postdoc in the group of Dr. Franck Halary at Nantes Université whose research is directed towards using tubulo-interstitium in vitro models to discover new biomarkers for use…
Creating systemic in vitro models is a major challenge for medical research and drug development. While human cell cultures offer accurate representation on a cellular level, they lack the complexity and connectivity of a real organ. Animal models, on the…
We are continuing our Birdie Voices series, presenting the people that make up the Birdie consortium. This time, we meet Dr. Jopeth Ramis, a postdoctoral researcher at Maastricht University who’s work in the Birdie project focuses on creating biomaterials that…
At this year's TERMIS-EU meeting in Kraków, June 28-July 1, we will be hosting a symposium titled "Advanced Biotechology and Biofabrication approaches for soft tissue engineering and in vitro models" together with the FET-Open project ENLIGHT. Check out the conference…
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