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BIRDIE building a foundation for better kidney health
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 viral infection and immune system diseases. Today, therapeutic options offered to patients are still limited…
Keep readingBIRDIE consortium meets in Nantes
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 was also a great time for all the people in the consortium to get together…
Keep readingBiopixlar biosafety cabinet installed in Nantes
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 used Franck Halary’s team at CR2TI, Nantes Université, for in vitro studies of renal infection.…
Keep readingResearch talk at ESTIV 2022
BIRDIE researcher Dr. Michelle Jäschke (TissUse GmbH) is giving a talk on November 22 at the upcoming 21st International Congress of the European Society of Toxicology In Vitro (ESTIV 2022) titled Towards a personalized kidney-on-a-chip derived from induced pluripotent stem cells. Michelle’s talk is part of the Early Stage Researcher Session 1, November 22 16:30-17:30. The program…
Keep readingAn expanded toolbox
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 used in the BIRDIE project to bioprint tissue models and test viral infection and propogation…
Keep readingBIRDIE at TERMIS 2022
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 in vitro models tomorrow (S06, Room S3 A, 13:30 – 15:00). The symposium is supported…
Keep readingThe Future of In Vitro Models – Workshop
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: https://youtu.be/GPWFLDaCeh4 For more information an the workshop, check out our flyer: The workshop is organized…
Keep readingBIRDIE Voices: Vivek Damodar Ranjan
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 in virology and drug discovery. Vivek is not only an invested researcher, he is also…
Keep readingBIRDIE Voices: Michelle Jäschke
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 other side of the spectrum, are inherently systematic, but are poor stand-ins for human biology.…
Keep readingBirdie Voices: Jopeth Ramis
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 mimic the extracellular components in the kidney, that lets him cultivate different kidney cell types.…
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Upcoming Events
- TERMIS-EU. Manchester, UK. March 28-31
- MPS World Summit 2023. Berlin, Germany. June 26-30
Past Events
- ESTIV Congress, Barcelona, Spain, November 21-25 2022
- 3D-Bioprinting, Biofabrication, Organoids & Organs-on-Chips Asia 2022, Tokyo, Japan, October 6-7 2022.
- Biofabrication 2022, Pisa, September 25-28 2022
- Termis EU, Krakow, Poland, June 28-July 1 2022
- The Future of In Vitro Models Workshop, June 16, 2022
- May 5-7. 3D Cell Culture 2021
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