Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany; EUROoCS, Europe
Prof. Dr. Peter Loskill is Full Professor for Organ-on-Chip (OoC) Research at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen (EKUT) and the Natural and Medical Sciences Institute (NMI), head of the 3R Center Tübingen for in vitro Models and Alternatives to Animal Testing as well as Chair of the European Organ-on-Chip Society (EUROoCS). Dr. Loskill graduated in 2012 from Saarland University with a PhD in Physics focusing on Biointerface science. He then spent three years as postdoctoral fellow in the Healy lab at University of California at Berkeley developing hiPSC-based OoC models, funded by the NIH/NCATS TissueChip program and the German Science Foundation. In 2015, he was named as one of Technology Review’s “Innovators under 35 Germany” and awarded a Fraunhofer ATTRACT Grant, the highest funded German starting grant program, which enabled him to start an independent research group at Fraunhofer IGB Stuttgart. In 2021, he accepted a W3-professor position heading the Department for Microphysiological Systems in the Faculty of Medicine at EKUT. Dr. Loskill and his interdisciplinary µOrgano lab (https://www.organ-on-chip.uni-tuebingen.de) merge engineering, biology, physics and medicine to generate next generation tissue models recapitulating complex human biology in vitro. His research focuses on i) development of tailored OoC platforms, ii) application of OoCs for pharmaceutical research, toxicological screening, and biomedical studies, as well as on iii) enabling technologies that support parallelization, automation and ease of use. His 3R Center Tübingen (https://www.the3rs.uni-tuebingen.de) aims to provide all scientists in the state of Baden-Württemberg with low-threshold access to novel alternative methods to animal testing.