The idea is to use an ingenious system of microtubes to interconnect nerve cells through three compartments ranging from the central nervous system to the peripheral nervous system. This might bring both ethical and practical benefits, such as: allowing to study the transport of specific proteins that travel in the nervous system and are associated with Parkinson's disease and reducing the number of animal experiments.
Dr Regina Luttge will introduce her ongoing research on the project with a focus on the micro- and nanofabrication technology enabling new in vitro nervous system models, here tailored to Parkinson’s Disease (PD). Going into more fundamental details of defining the design criteria of our envisaged PD model, she will discuss the contribution in combining microfluidics with tissue engineering. Join us on 19 May from 14:00 until 15:00 in finding out more about innovative future development of therapeutic strategies.
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