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Companies, researchers, investors, standards, events, and funding shaping human-relevant organ-chip systems.
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Government AgencyUS advanced research agency.
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Research InstituteNIH center coordinating the Tissue Chip for Drug Screening program.
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Government AgencyUS measurement science and standards agency.
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Research InstituteHarvard institute where foundational human organ-chip systems were developed.
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Grant MakerU.S. health research agency funding ambitious programs, including organ-chip work in space.
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Grant MakerUK organization funding and advancing non-animal research methods.
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Grant MakerNIH institute encouraging microphysiological-system pilot studies in diabetes research.
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Corporate Venture CapitalInvesting in innovative in vitro diagnostic technologies.
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Venture CapitalInvesting in the future of deep health.
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Grant MakerSupporting innovation and economic growth in East Netherlands.
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Venture CapitalWelltech Ventures is Israel's first venture capital firm dedicated to early-stage startups in the health, wellness, and health tech sectors…
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StartupDevelops mechanically active organ-on-chip systems, including breathing lung models.
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StartupDevelops mechanically stimulated beating organ-on-chip models.
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StartupDevelops PhysioMimix single- and multi-organ microphysiological systems.
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StartupDevelops Organ-Chip systems and human-relevant tissue models for drug discovery and development.
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StartupProvides Human-on-a-Chip systems and contract research for drug safety and efficacy.
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StartupDevelops 3D tissue and Akura Flow organ-on-chip platforms for preclinical research.
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StartupDevelops the OrganoPlate organ-on-chip platform and human tissue models for drug development.
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StartupCombines patient-on-chip experiments with machine learning for clinical prediction.
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StartupDevelops HUMIMIC human-on-a-chip and multi-organ-chip systems.
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StartupUses microfluidic human tissue systems and robotics to generate predictive biological data.
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CommunityEuropean society connecting researchers, companies, and stakeholders in organ-on-chip technology.
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CommunityEuropean industry association representing microphysiological-system providers.
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CommunityEmpowering innovation and economic growth in South Holland.
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OtherU.S. regulator advancing qualification and use of human-relevant drug-development tools.
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Researchers, founders, funders, and other contributors
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Bioengineer, Vivodyne co-founder, and co-author of the foundational lung-on-chip paper.
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Founding director of the Wyss Institute and a pioneer of human organ-chip technology.
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Organ-chip executive and scientist associated with Emulate's platform development.
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Co-founder and chief scientist of Hesperos.
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Co-founder of Hesperos and pioneer of multi-organ microphysiological systems.
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CEO and scientific director of AlveoliX.
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Organ-on-chip researcher and AlveoliX scientific advisor.
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Founder and organ-chip technology leader at TissUse.
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Curated research and analysis, grouped by topic
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Provides a practical primer on organ-chip design, fabrication, operation, assays, and application-specific tradeoffs.
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Synthesizes how human organ chips can model disease, inform drug development, and support personalized medicine.
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Evaluated predictive performance and potential economic impact of a human Liver-Chip for drug-induced liver injury.
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Assessed progress, adoption barriers, and the next translational priorities for organ-chip technology.
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Reviewed how engineered human tissues on chips can improve disease modeling, therapeutic testing, and translation into drug development.
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Showed that coupled vascularized organ chips can support quantitative prediction of human drug pharmacokinetics.
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Defined the organ-chip field and explained how microfluidic tissue interfaces can model human physiology and disease.
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Demonstrated a breathing human lung-on-chip that reproduced tissue-interface functions and responses to mechanical strain.
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Annual European meeting for organ-on-chip research, industry, and policy.
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Global summit convening the microphysiological-systems community.
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Jun 22, 2026
Dated 2026 occurrence of the European organ-on-chip community's annual meeting.
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May 26, 2026
Dated 2026 global summit for microphysiological-system research and translation.
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ARPA-H initiative using microphysiological systems to study tissue aging in low Earth orbit.
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FDA qualification program for innovative drug-development tools, including organ-chip approaches.
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Completed DARPA program that developed interlinked human microphysiological systems.
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Working group developing organ-on-chip engineering and efficacy standards.
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NIH program developing human tissue chips to improve prediction of drug safety and toxicity.
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