Smart materials and their practical applications will take the stage at the conference Deep Tech Atelier, dedicated to science-intensive entrepreneurship and innovation, which will take place on 19 and 20 May at the Hanzas Perons in Riga.
Organ-on-a-chip technology was first described more than a decade ago. It is currently used in many European countries, the USA, Canada, Japan, etc. Also in Latvia, at the startup Cellbox Labs. For example, in a current research project, scientists will use cells from a lung cancer patient to create personalized “lung cancers on a chip” and then study an innovative way to treat it and test a new therapy.
“The organs on the chip are plastic chips about the size of a credit card, with micro-channels stacked on top of each other,” explains head of Cellbox Labs and Head of Micro and Nanodevices Laboratory ISSP UL Dr. Sc. Ing. Gatis Mozoļevskis. At the Deep Tech Atelier conference, Dr. Sc. Ing. Gatis Mozoļevskis, who has been researching organs-on-a-chip since 2019, will talk more about how this technology works, what its applications are, where it can be used now and in the future, and how Latvian technology differs from other types of solutions in the world.
