Mini-Heart

Our beating Mini-Heart assay provides highly informative clinically relevant readouts, granting in-dept understanding of the effects of compounds on overall cardiac function. The Mini-Heart can be completely tailor-made with regard to heart shape, cell type and disease phenotype. 

The development of this technology is funded by €4 Million grant from the EIC-Pathfinder Challenge. This grant will fund the development of a pumping human Mini-heart and swimming human Bio-Robot by a consortium composed of three companies, River BioMedics, NanoScale Systems (Nanoss) GmbH and Metatissue, and two universities, the University of Twente and Universidad de Málaga.

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  • Compound validation, compound screening & lead selection
  • Clinically relevant read-outs including contractility, ejection fraction, electrical sensing and pacing and ultrasound visualization
  • New state-of-the-art standard for human predictability
  • Fully adaptable shape and cell types
  • Pumping function
  • Disease modelling