Abstract book for the 2025 event available here: FIN OoC 2025 Abstract Book
Venue: Arvo Ylpön katu 34, 33520 Tampere
Day 1 | Wednesday 8 Oct 2025
12:00-14.00 Registration open (next to Arvo info desk, Arvo Ylpönkatu 34)
We kindly ask all presenting authors to hang their posters at the beginning of the conference and leave them up for its entire duration.
Session 1 (Session 1 is part of the MET seminar)
13:00-13:15 Opening remarks
13:15-14:00 Keynote lecture – Prof. Hazel Screen: Addressing physical niche design in organ-chip development – A musculoskeletal case study
14:00-14:15 Siiri Suominen: Physioxia-driven maturation of iPSC-derived hepatic cells
14:15-14:30 Elena Kremneva: Precision tumor-on-chip model for personalized drug efficacy and immune cell delivery assessment
14:30-14:45 Ella Lampela: Engineered 3D skeletal muscle myobundles with functional vascular networks
14:45-15:00 Sponsor talk: Curi Bio
15:00-15:30 Coffee break and sponsor exhibition
Session 2
15:30-16:15 Keynote lecture – Prof. Pasi Kallio: Oxygen Matters: Replicating Physoxic and Hypoxic Conditions in Organ-on-Chip Platforms
16:15-16:30 Martina Freisa: Modeling early invasion in colorectal cancer using a microfluidic gut-on-chip system
16:30-16:45 Iván Perez-Torres: Computational Simulation of Electrical Temporal Interference Stimulation of a Myelinated and Unmyelinated Neurons
16:45-17:00 Sponsor talk: Cellbox Labs
17:00-18:15 Poster session and sponsor exhibition
19:00 Dinner at Lounas- ja tilausravintola Koski, Kirkkokatu 10, 33200 Tampere (for dinner registrants only)
Day 2 | Thursday 9 Oct 2025
8:00-10.00 Registration open (next to Arvo info desk, Arvo Ylpön katu 34)
Session 3
9:00-9:45 Keynote lecture – Prof. Tarja Malm: Modeling microglia-neuron interaction using iPSC-based organoid models
9:45-10:00 Carl-Johan Hörberg: Large-Scale Topographical Control of Cultured Network of Neurons
10:00-10:15 Iisa Tujula: Human iPSC-based coculture models reveal neuroinflammatory crosstalk between microglia and astrocytes
10:15-10:30 Sponsor talk: MaxWell
10:30-11:30 Coffee break, poster session and sponsor exhibition
Session 4
11:30-11:45 Lotta Kulmala: Miniature Engineered Heart Tissues From Human iPSC-Cardiomyocytes on a Hypoxia on-a-Chip Platform
11:45-12:00 Anna Katharina Köhler: Engineered heart tissues as a model to study exercise-induced ventricular arrhythmias in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
12:00-12:15 Kaisla Walls: 3D imaging of engineered heart tissues using inverted selective plane illumination microscopy
12:15-12:30 Marita Meurer: Oxygenation in In Vitro Lung Models: Key to Physiological Relevance in Infection Research
12:30-13:30 Lunch and sponsor exhibition
Session 5
13:30-14:15 Keynote lecture – Assoc. Prof. Otto Kalliokoski: Are fraudulent studies undermining evidence synthesis in preclinical medicine?
14:15-14:30 Pauline Jeckel: Advancing Microphysiological Systems Adoption Through Targeted Education and Training Formats
14:30-14:45 Kati Rinnekari: Investigating the Role of S53P4 Bioactive Glass in Osteogenic Differentiation of 3D Bioprinted Human Bone Marrow Stem/Stromal Cells with Animal-Free Bioinks
14:45-15:00 Nithin Sadeesh: Non-destructive monitoring of inflammatory biomarker release in joint explant cultures using near-infrared spectroscopy and machine learning
15:00-15:15 Closing
15:30 Lab tour
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