The Swedish Research Council (VR) awarded grants to 47 researchers at KTH, including 3.8 million SEK to Prof. Herland. She was interviewed for the occasion by the KTH press office (Swedish only).
News
New Paper published in Stem Cells
The article “Barrier properties and transcriptome expression in human iPSC‐derived models of the blood–brain barrier” was published in Stem Cells today. The research illustrates how co‐culture of iPS-derived endothelial cells with pericytes, astrocytes and neurons promotes barrier formation on a functional and transcriptional level.
New Paper published in Nature Biotechnology
The article “A linked organ-on-chip model of the human neurovascular unit reveals the metabolic coupling of endothelial and neuronal cells” was published in Nature Neuroscience today. The research illustrates how fluidically linked Blood-Brain Barrier and Brain Organ Chips offer new methods for studying the effects of drugs and disease on the brain and its blood vessels.
link to press release at the Wyss Institute
Xenia successfully defends her Doctoral thesis
Congratulations to our Postdoc Polyxeni Nikolakopoulou on successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis at the Technische Universität Dresden!
New intern joins the group
Today, Simon Feillée joins the Herland group as our newest internship student. He is pursuing a degree at Mines Paristech in France, and for her internship project will be working with Isabelle and Thomas on the controlling the surface chemistry of a novel polymer for microfluidic device fabrication.
Dimitri successfully defends his Master’s thesis
Congratulations to our Master’s thesis student Dimitri Wirjowerdojo on successfully defending his thesis “Evaluation of Hypoxia-induced Astrocytic Commitment of Neuroepithelial Stem Cells”.
Feature and Interview with Prof. Herland
The Wallenberg Foundation has published an article featuring Prof. Herland and her research (Swedish only).
Vlad successfully defends his Master’s thesis
Congratulations to our Master’s thesis student Vladimir Banovic on successfully defending his thesis “Real-Time Monitoring of Neurovascular Cells”.
New ERASMUS+ intern joins the group
Today, Eva Stronkman joins the Herland group as our newest ERASMUS+ internship student. She is pursuing a degree at Saxion University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, and for her internship project will be working with Thomas on the novel device fabrication methods for brain on a chip devices.
Thomas receives Marie Curie fellowship
Congratulations to our postdoc Thomas Winkler on being awarded a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship by the European Commission for his work on “NeuroVU: Real-time Sensing in Microfluidic Models of the Neurovascular Unit”.
New Master’s student joins the group
Today, Dimitri Wirjowerdojo joins the Herland group as our newest Master’s student. He is getting his degree in Molecular Techniques in Life Science, and for his thesis work will be working with Dimitrios on the evaluation of hypoxia-induced astrocytic commitment of neuroepithelial stem cells.
New Postdoctoral Fellow joins the group
Today, Polyxenia Nikolakopoulou joins the Herland group as our newest Postdoctoral Fellow. She will be based at KI, working on human stem cell-derived microglia in models of neuro-inflammation.