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Next level of personalized medicine – body-on-a-chip | Ute Schepers | TEDxKIT

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Biochemist Ute Schepers from the Institute of Toxicology and Genetics at KIT talks about her spin-off company vasOlab. She and her team aim to change the way drugs are developed by speeding up experiments and avoiding animal testing. VasOlab’s ‘Body-on-a-chip’system with miniaturized human organs, based on artificial blood vessels and 3D bioprinting, has already won over many experts – for example at the Cyber Champions Award 2016.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
 Ute Schepers is group leader at the Institute of Toxicology and Genetics (ITG) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. She studied chemistry in Bonn, did her PhD in biochemistry and habilitated at KIT in 2011. In 1998, she became a research associate at the department of cell biology at Harvard Medical School. Since 2001, she has been doing research on organspecific molecular transporters, tissue engineering and vascularization of 3D tissues. Her research group developed the prototype of the vasQchip. She initiated the foundation of vasQlab and still supports the spin-off as member of the advisory board. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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