Thomas Valentin | Group Leader - Sample Handling & Sensing
CSEM SA

Day 2: 28th May @ 12:00

Automated benchtop perfusion, culturing, imaging, and sampling of organ-on-a-chip Blood-Labyrinth Barrier (BLB) microfluidic devices

 The University of Basel has developed a microfluidic human BLB (Blood-Labyrinth Barrier) organ-on-a-chip platform as a preclinical tool to improve drug development by simulating and mimicking the BLB of the human ear. This platform is used to help screen promising drug candidates, which enhances clinical trial success rates while reducing costs and development time. To aid in long-term culture, sterile sampling, and increased throughput experiments, CSEM has developed an automated system that provides the appropriate physiological environment, continuous perfusion, and automated sterile sampling of 9 BLB chips in parallel, enabling long-term, sterile culturing and monitoring

Thomas Valentin, Group Leader - Sample Handling & Sensing, CSEM SA

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Thomas Valentin / Automated benchtop perfusion, culturing, imaging, and sampling of organ-on-a-chip Blood-Labyrinth Barrier (BLB) microfluidic devices

Thomas Valentin, Group Leader - Sample Handling & Sensing,
CSEM SA

Tom Valentin is the Group Leader for Automated Sample Handling at CSEM. He has a BSc and MSc in mechanical engineering, and a PhD in biomedical engineering. He joined CSEM in 2019 after a postdoc at ETH.

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Vesna Petkovic, Project and Group Leader, University of Basel

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Vesna Petkovic / Automated benchtop perfusion, culturing, imaging, and sampling of organ-on-a-chip Blood-Labyrinth Barrier (BLB) microfluidic devices

Vesna Petkovic, Project and Group Leader,
University of Basel

Dr. Vesna Petkovic earned her MD in medicine in Serbia, and later a PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Bern, focusing on cell signaling in neurological development. She pursued postdoctoral research at Basel’s Anatomy Institute and Singapore’s Faculty of Medicine, investigating axonal...

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