Theano Tsikari is invited to give talks and received a travel grant
May 9, 2024
Theano Tsikari, PhD student within LymphChip at the Orlova lab at LUMC, has been selected to give a flash talk and has also received a travel grant for the EMBO workshop entitled “Building networks: engineering in vascular biology” which is held in Barcelona on May 6-8, 2024. In addition, she has been invited to give a short talk at the Annual EUROoCS meeting that will take place on July 3-5 in Milan.
On both occasions, Theano will present her results on the integration of hiPSC-derived macrophages in a 3D vessel-on-chip model.
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