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X-Health.show - meet the future of healthcare
Organs-on-Chips – Faster and Safer Drug Development while Saving Animals from Pre-Clinical Studies: Dr. Nina Hobi, Alveolix
Take a plastic chip,
a bunch of cells,
add some real complex engineering and cellular biology science
and you'll have a lung-on-a-chip that can breathe as if in a human body.
You're ready to test drugs, as if on people, instead of mice
on organs-on-chips.
In this episode, you’ll hear about
- the biology of breathing, down to the cellular level,
- how to better predict drug responses in humans,
- the difference between organoids and organs-on-chips,
- how does a lung-on-a-chip work and can you trust it,
- the wonderland of alveoli biology,
- the future with less animal testing.
My guest today is Dr. Nina Hobi the CEO of AlveoliX. A molecular biologist with over a decade of research in organs-on-chips and an awesome talent for putting complicated biological processes in simple words. A compelling intuitive leader, she inspires her team and partners to keep the ball rolling. No wonder, after hours she’s a volleyball referee.
AlveoliX is a Swiss startup that developed organ-on-a-chip technologies to make pre-clinical drug testing safer, better, and personalized while reducing animal testing. Their lung-on-chip enables human alveoli cells breathe just like they do in the human body.
Find out more about AlveoliX at
https://www.alveolix.com
Timestamps:
0:00 Dr Nina Hobi and AlveoliX
10:56 What are Organs on Chip
23:57 Scientists Founding a Life Science Startup
34:43 Startup Leadership and Volleball
43:21 How to Use Organs on Chip in Pre-Clinical Research
49:48 Growing Organ on Chip Market
54:06 AlveoliX Future, Non-Animal Testing
59:08 Thanks, Follow AlveoliX
1:00:07 Follow X-Health.show, Disclaimers
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