Prof. Dr. Andries D. van der Meer is Professor of Microphysiological Systems at the Department of Bioengineering Technologies in the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Twente, The Netherlands.
His primary research interest is the design, development and application of Organs-on-Chips. Organs-on-Chips are microengineered laboratory devices with cultured living tissue, which recapitulate distinct functions of human organs. Organs-on-Chips can be used to understand human diseases and discover new treatments. Some of the models that Van der Meer works on are the Retina-on-Chip, Lung-on-Chip and Heart-on-Chip, and his group has a specific focus on the realistic integration of blood vessels in Organs-on-Chips.
From 2013 to 2015, Dr. Van der Meer worked as a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. He actively developed Organ-on-Chip models of the blood-brain barrier and the lung alveolus for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Microphysiological Systems program and coordinated a collaborative project between the Wyss Institute Organ-on-Chip start-up company Emulate, Inc. and Janssen Pharmaceuticals.
Before joining Harvard University, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Prof. Albert van den Berg’s BIOS/Lab-on-a-Chip group of the University of Twente, The Netherlands. During that time, he also served as an Assistant Coordinator for the project ‘Beyond Borders: Organs-on-Chips’ of the Dutch Royal Academy (KNAW). This project led to the founding of the Dutch Human Organ and Disease Model Technologies (hDMT) Organ-on-Chip consortium, for which Dr. Van der Meer is the representative of the University of Twente. Van der Meer is currently the President of the European Organ-on-Chip Society (EUROoCS) and the Chair of the CEN CENELEC Focus Group for Standardization for Organ-on-Chip (FGOoC).
Dr. Van der Meer obtained his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Twente, The Netherlands in 2010, and received his M.Sc. degree in Medical Biology from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands in 2005.
Expertise
Medicine and Dentistry
- Organ
- Endothelial Cell
- In Vitro
- Vascular Bundle
- Thrombosis
- Cells
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
- Cell Culture
- Membrane
Organisations
- Developing microfluidic 'organ-on-chip' technology
- Advanced in vitro models of human organs and tissues
- Focus on vascular biology and thrombosis
- Human stem cell technology
- Applications in drug development and precision medicine
- 3R - 'Replacement, Reduction, Refinement' of animal testing
Publications
Research profiles
- Molecular biology and cell biology
- Biomedical engineering
- Stem cell technology
Affiliated study programs
Courses academic year 2023/2024
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Courses academic year 2022/2023
Address
University of Twente
Horst - Zuidhorst (building no. 28), room 116
De Horst 2
7522 LW Enschede
Netherlands
University of Twente
Horst - Zuidhorst 116
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
Netherlands
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