Breaking the wall of organ shortage

As we recently announce in our News-NEOLIVER in the Falling Walls Lab pitching competition, Jasper Smet, a phD student at KU Leuven and member of NEOLIVER team, got a slot at the pitching competition organised by Falling Walls Lab Leuven.

Falling Walls Lab is a world-class pitch competition and networking forum that brings together a diverse and interdisciplinary pool of talents by providing a stage for breakthrough ideas both locally and globally. During the event at Leuven, 16 students and early-career professionals participated showing how their research is Breaking the wall of…

Jasper Smet is Breaking the wall of organ shortage

Jasper Smet had three minutes to present his research and NEOLIVER project to the audience and jury at the Falling Walls Lab pitching competition in Leuven. In this time, Jasper show how his research is Breaking the wall of organ shortage. In other words, Jasper explained how the bioprinting approach developed in NEOLIVER could be an alternative to living organ donor.

Jasper Smet did an amazing performance on stage highly appreciated by the audience and the jury. However, this year the winner was Margot Verstreken, who presented Breaking the wall of Selective Gas Detection. Congratulations! She will present her research in November at the Falling Walls Science Summit.



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