Anne van der Does, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Pulmonology at the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands. Her work is focused on (dysfunctional) lung epithelial biology in chronic lung diseases, with specific focus on developing advanced lung epithelial cell cultures to support that research. Related to this focus, dr. van der Does was awarded a Marie Curie fellowship twice, of which the second included a one-year visit at Emulate Inc. -a pioneer company in Organs-on-Chips technology- to use their Lung-on-Chip platform. Dr. van der Does has published in peer-review journals including the European Respiratory Journal.

Dr. van der Does received her Ph.D. from the Department of Infectious Diseases at the LUMC before completing a 4-year postdoc at the Karolinska Institutet, in Stockholm, Sweden after which she continued her career in the PulmoScience Lab of the LUMC (www.pulmosciencelableiden.com).

In this webinar Dr. van der Does will:

  • Discuss how application of stretch and airflow affects mucociliary clearance in a primary Airway Lung-on-Chip
  • How the vibrating microtome is used to slice the chips for imaging purposes
  • Shortly touch upon new research into COVID-19-related lung fibrosis featuring PCLS and Organ-on-Chip technology