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The Organ/Tissue on a Chip Engineering Standards Working Group will hold their first In-Person Workshop on April 27 & 28, 2023. The 2-day event will be held at the Michigan State University Campus in East Lansing, MI. We encourage all stakeholders from industry, academia and the government to participate in this event to help define the needs for the development of standards in Microphysiological Systems (MPS). The workshop will include presentations, a panel discussion and breakout sessions. We will have contributions from:
- Mike Shuler, Cornell University/Hesperos, Inc.
- Monica Piergiovanni, European Commission
- Lorna Ewart, Emulate
- Kapil Pant, Synvivo
- Carolina Lucchesi, ATCC
- Scott Dulchavsky, Henry Ford Hospital
- Rick Neubig, Michigan State University
- Megan LaFollette, The North American 3Rs Collaborative
- Itzy Morales Pantoja, Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT) – Johns
Hopkins University - Kyung Sung, FDA
- Passley Hargrove, NCATS/NIH
This will be a unique and exciting opportunity for stakeholders to join in the discussion of future developments of guidelines and standards in MPS.
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Darwin R. Reyes, NIST
Nureddin Ashammakhi, Michigan State University
For more information, please send us an email to: MPS.Standards [at] nist.gov (MPS[dot]Standards[at]nist[dot]gov).
Photos of the Workshop
| Thursday April 27, 2023 | |
| 8:30 am–9:10 am | I. Welcome Working Group Coordinators and MSU representatives Christopher H. Contag Director, IQ, MSU |
| 9:10 am -9:30 am | II. Introduction of the purpose of the working group and summary on the work done Darwin Reyes, Project Leader and Working Group Co-chair, NIST Nureddin Ashammakhi, Working Group Co-chair, MSU III. Stakeholders Talks |
| 9:30 am – 10:30 am | Keynote Speaker Michael Shuler Professor, Cornell University/President, Hesperos, Inc. |
| 10:30 am – 10:45 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 am – 11:30 am | Lorna Ewart CSO, Emulate |
| 11:30 am – 12:15 pm | Carolina Lucchesi Principal Scientist, American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) |
| 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm | Lunch and Networking |
| 1:30 pm – 2:15 pm |
Kapil Pant IV. Translational Opportunities |
| 2:15 pm – 3:00 pm | Scott Dulchavsky Chair of Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit |
| 3:00 pm – 3:15 pm | Coffee Break |
| 3:15 pm – 4:00 pm | Rick Neubig, Michigan State University |
| 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm | V. Tour – IQ Facilities at MSU |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| Friday April 28, 2023 | |
| 8:25 am – 8:30 am | VI. Announcements Co-chairs of the working group VII. Talks from Standard Development Organizations and Government Funding and Regulatory Agencies (20 – 25 minutes each and 5-10 minutes for questions): |
| 8:30 am – 9:15 am | Monica Piergiovanni Technical Officer, Directorate General Joint Research Centre, European Commission |
| 9:15 am -9:45 am | Megan LaFollette Project Director, The North American 3Rs Collaborative |
| 9:45 am – 10:15 am | Itzy Morales Pantoja Researcher, Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT) – Johns Hopkins University |
| 10:15 am – 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am – 11:00 am | Kyung Sung Principal Investigator, US FDA |
| 11:00 am – 11:30 am | Passley Hargrove Program Officer, NIH Tissue Chip Program, NCATS/NIH |
| 11:30 am – 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm | VIII. Panel Discussion – FDA, Industry, Academics - Industry spin offs |
| 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm | IX. Breakout sessions – Three sessions, one per organ model, i.e., Heart, Kidney and Liver |
| 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm | X. Summary of discussions in Breakout sessions |
| 4:30 pm | XI. Adjourn |