MOVE Skin-on-a-Chip to replace skin cancer animal experiments

Prof.dr. Sue Gibbs (VUmc/ACTA), has been awarded a ZonMW grant of ?300.000 for the project Human immune competent skin-on-a-chip to replace skin cancer animal experiments. The project is a collaboration with Philips Research and Dr. Tanja de Gruijl (VUmc). The aim of the project is for the first time to develop a ?human immune competent skin-on-a-chip? enabling in vitro investigation of interactions between the skin and specific immune cells, under conditions which mimic the in vivo skin environment.Skin-on-a-chip will replace animal testing models for skin cancer (and other diseases), currently needed to enable investigation of immune system-skin interactions. The VUmc?s and Philips? complementary expertise and mutual interest in the area of human skin 3D modeling will synergize and will lead to the development of an in vitro skin-immune system model to replace animal experiments.

Source: http://www.move.vu.nl/2012/11/09/skin-on-a-chip-to-replace-skin-cancer-animal-experiments/

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