Eurostars call for projects
Why should you use microfluidics in your Eurostars project?
- Lab-on-chip for high-throughput drug testing and analysis of precurser molecules
- High precision flow control for controlled experimental conditions
- Microfluidics for machine learning
The Eurostars call for projects: A joint programme for international collaborative R&D projects
What can microfluidics do for your Eurostars project
The Eurostars programme is open to startups, SMEs, large companies, research organisations and universities. The aim is to develop a technology ready for the market by the end of the project. It is focused on high TRL levels and has the aim to support business growth and new product development.
Microfluidics is highly relevant for your project if you need:
1. Small sample volumes
2. Reproducible experimental conditions
3. An automated flow setup
More advantages of microfluidics are:
- A modular set-up that allows perfect adaptation to your project
- The very precise control of the experimental environment
- The possibility to parallelize and automate experiments
The main applications of microfluidics in the pharmaceutical area are organ-on-chip cell culture, drug screening, and biomaterial testing. Microfluidic lab-on-chip is also very interesting for developing personalized treatments for patients, particularly for the analysis of samples from patients (blood, urine, saliva…) and the detection of various metabolites. It allows the automated and short-time parallelized analysis of various samples with very low volumes of samples. The same technology can be used for the personalized synthesis of treatments, like in the ElectroMed project.
Microfluidics is alo widely explored for the development of machine learning and systems controlled by artificial intelligence: the possibility to create a highly reproducible environment makes this technology ideal to train an algorithm.
What can the MIC do for your Eurostars project?
The MIC can bring its expertise in microfluidic instrumentation and flow control to help you develop your research project’s microfluidic innovation! We have already participated in more than 30 European projects to help our partners develop systems suited to their projects.
More specifically, we can:
- Develop user-friendly platforms for the perfusion of your tissue model
- Build innovative instruments for sample injection
- Design the flow control solution suited for your project
- Automate your system to allow high-throughput experiments and good reproducibility
The MIC already brought its microfluidics expertise into many research projects:
H2020-NMBP-TR-IND-2020
Microfluidic platform to study the interaction of cancer cells with lymphatic tissue
H2020-LC-GD-2020-3
Toxicology assessment of pharmaceutical products on a placenta-on-chip model
