07.04.2020 | People | In-vitro & Organs-on-Chip
PhD Defense Pauline Zamprogno
Congratulations to Pauline Zamprogno from the Organs-on-Chip Technologies laboratory on her successful PhD thesis defense on 6 April 2020! She presented the results of her PhD project "Development of second generation of air-blood barrier on chip".
Microscopy picture of the lung alveoli array developed by Pauline Zamprogno. Each hexagon is about 250um in size, a size similar to the in-vivo alveoli dimensions.
@Pauline Zamprogno, ARTORG Center
Pauline Zamprogno has worked for the past 4 years on developing the next generation lung-on-chip at the Organs-on-Chip Technologies laboratory in collaboration with the Thoracic Surgery Clinic of the Inselspital and the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research in Saarbrücken. Pauline developed a totally new membrane using surface tension forces – the force that allow insects to walk on the water – to create an array of alveoli using a biological and stretchable membrane. This in-vitro model is expected to allow mimicking lung diseases, such as lung fibrosis and emphysema.
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