On 6 June, the seminar ‘The human-organ-on-a-chip: how far we are from personalized medicine’ was held by Professor Artur Rydosz (Poland, AGH). The aim of the seminar is to raise awareness and education about organ-on-a-chip methods, because without knowledge about these methods, scientists cannot use them, funding organizations cannot create programmes to fund them, ethics committees cannot ask why they are not used in a certain protocol, and so on.
Perhaps the biggest challenge we currently face is related to adherence to measurements made using ‘traditional methods’ and the reluctance to change this and be open to the introduction of new technologies. The organ-on-a-chip will lead to collaboration between engineers from different disciplines such as electronics, bioengineering, materials science, pharmacy, and medicine.
The seminar was attended by lecturers and postgraduate students of the Department of Materials Science and New Technologies.
