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Organs on a Chip: How to Design Them, How to Use Them

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Giulia Malaguarnera

Giulia Malaguarnera

Cherry Biotech SAS

<p>Giulia Malaguarnera&nbsp;holds a PhD in Neuropharmacology from 2015. Currently, she is R&amp;D project manager at Cherry Biotech, a &lsquo;deep-tech&rsquo; startup. Giulia is granted by the Horizon 2020 under the MSCA Individual Fellowship. Previously she had been worked at the University of Catania and the University College of London. She is author of more than 100 articles and she has a h index of 29. Her research interests include metabolic diseases, pharmacology, and disease modelling.</p>

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Organs on a chip are microfluidic models, in which cells are cultured in micrometer-sized chambers perfused by fluidic flow. The concept of creating a body-on-a-chip was born around 2000 for alternative testing to animal models, and to closely replicate the physiological and pathological condition on human cells. Cells cultured in the presence of flow develop features as such morphology, expression of proteins, and perform better than static cultures. Therefore, this model can be helpful in reproducing disease models in dynamic systems and performing ADMET experiments. The aim of this special issue is to collect protocols on designing microfluidic systems, perform computational simulation on organs-on-a-chip, and to collect biological protocols for cell dynamic cultures, pharmacology and toxicology studies, personalized medicine, and disease modelling.

Articles

Generation of a Simplified Three-Dimensional Skin-on-a-chip Model in a Micromachined Microfluidic Platform
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Generation of a Simplified Three-Dimensional Skin-on-a-chip Model in a Micromachined Microfluidic Platform

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2021

Abstracts

<p>Fabrication and Characterization of a Low-Cost Microfluidic Platform for Multi-Organ-on-a-Chip</p>

Roa Fardous1,

Qasem Ramadan*1

1Alfaisal University