Keynote Speakers
Zhongze Gu, State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing-China
Professor Gu is the University Professor at Southeast University, serving as the Director of the National Laboratory of Digital Medical Engineering of China, the Director of the Institute of Biomedical Devices (Suzhou) at Southeast University. He also holds positions as the co-Chair of the iMPSS Asia-Pacific Chapter, the Director of the Organoid and Organs-on-a-Chip Association within the Chinese Biomedical Engineering Society, and the Director of the Organoid and Organs-on-a-Chip Specialized Committee within the Chinese Toxicology Society. Professor Gu has dedicated to Biomaterials and Organs-on-a-Chip research for over 30 years, resulting in the publication of over 400 papers and the receipt of numerous awards, including recognition as one of “The Top Ten Advances in Life Sciences in China in 2023”.
Peter Loskill, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen-Germany
Prof. Dr. Peter Loskill is W3-Professor for Organ-on-Chip Research at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen and the Natural and Medical Sciences Institute (NMI) as well as Co-Founder and Past-Chair of the European Organ-on-Chip Society (EUROoCS). He graduated in 2012 from Saarland University with a PhD in Physics and thereafter worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Healy Lab at UC Berkeley. In 2015, he was named as one of Technology Review’s “Innovators under 35 Germany” and awarded an ATTRACT starting grant. He now heads the interdisciplinary µOrgano-Lab and the 3R Center Tübingen for In vitro Models and Alternatives to Animal Testing.
Hilde Stenuit, Space Applications Services, Noordwijk-The Netherlands
Dr Hilde Stenuit is Principal Scientist at Space Applications Services. Hilde is at the forefront in Europe of pioneering commercial access to space, with the ICE Cubes Service, the first European commercial service to launch research to space (ISS). In particular access to space is provided for biotech projects & bioscience platforms accommodating organoids and organ-on-chip in space. Hilde holds a PhD in Astrophysics and supported ESA as contractor of which more than 10yrs as part of the ESA ISS Mission Science Office.
Joseph Wu, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, Stanford-USA
Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD is Director of Stanford Cardiovascular Institute and Simon H. Stertzer, MD, Professor of Medicine and Radiology at Stanford University. Dr. Wu received his MD from Yale University and PhD (Molecular & Medical Pharmacology) at University of California, Los Angeles. His lab works on cardiovascular genomics and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). He is listed as top 0.1% of highly cited researchers by Web of Science for the past 6 years (2018-2023). Dr. Wu has received several awards, including the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) given out by President Obama at the White House, and the American Heart Association (AHA) Distinguished Scientist Award, He was a past President of the American Heart Association (2023-2024).
Invited Speakers
Ricky Bayer, Technical University of Berlin
Pelin Candarlioglu, Vivodyne
Rhiannon David, AstraZeneca
Kosuke Ino, Tohoku University
Zohreh Izadifar, Harvard University
Abhishek Jain, Texas A&M University
Annie Kathuria, Johns Hopkins University
Nicole Kleinstreuer, National Institute of Health, National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, DTT/NICEATM
Jasper J. Koning, Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit
Julia Kühnlenz, Bayer S.A.S.
Hyang-Ae Lee, Korea Institute of Toxicology
Ben Maoz, Tel Aviv University
Mark J. Mondrinos, Tulane University
Yuan Pang, Tsinghua University
Bart Spee, Utrecht University
Minoru Takasato, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research
Andries van der Meer, University of Twente
Krzysztof Wrzesinski, North-West University