Two projects in the field of cancer research led by Prof. Dr. Alexander Kleger, Ulm University Medical Center, as well as Dr. Vidhya Madapusi Ravi from Freiburg University Medical Center are being funded. 

A team of researchers led by Prof. Donald E. Ingber from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University in Boston has developed an organ-on-a-chip model that can replicate the human cervix with a functional epithelial barrier and mucus production featuring biochemical and hormone-dependent properties similar to the living cervix.

With the help of engineered human respiratory epithelial organoids, a team from the University of Basel has succeeded in observing how the bacterium Pseudomonas aeroginosa manages to break through the lung barrier. This bacterium targets certain cells in the lungs and has developed a tactic to break through the line of defense.

Researchers at the Institute of Biomechanics at ETH Zurich have developed a 3D in vitro model to study brittle bone disease in more detail to mimic the dynamic process during early bone formation.