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Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

The challenges of IBD drug development

Intestinal inflammation is among the most prevalent health indications in the western world, comprising a range of diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Efficient treatments for IBD, however, are lacking.

Unfortunately, the exact mechanisms behind IBD are poorly understood owing to its multifactorial etiology; Studying such an intricate disease successfully can never be achieved with a simple culture system.

The complexity of the disease, combined with the lack of suitable models makes studying IBD and the development of preventative or therapeutic agents challenging.

Drug Development Partnerships

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Drug development partnerships to find novel IBD therapeutics

Why a 3D IBD model?


There is an urgent need for physiologically relevant intestinal in vitro culture systems with modular biological complexity.

  • Existing models for IBD and the gastrointestinal system are often a compromise between biological relevance and scalability
  • Simple 2D models fail to recapitulate the key aspects of the intestine and of the compromised immune system. Animal models have limited translatability.
  • In addition, different phases of drug development demand varying complexity and screenability of the cell culture model.

With our ground-breaking 3D human tissue disease models and expertise, we bring disease-relevance and human complexity to the root of IBD drug development.

Our partnership with Roche


Together with Roche, we recently started a partnership to develop human disease models to characterize novel compounds in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

We will be responsible for developing tissue-based disease models and assays in the OrganoPlate® , our proprietary organ-on-a-chip platform that increases the predictability of biomarkers and reduces animal use in scientific testing. Roche will gain access to technology, disease models, and scientific results.



Our collaboration

Translate disease & pathway insight into screenable assays

Confirm disease hypothesis causality with cellular assays that target key processes in IBD and accurately predict disease state.


Our solution

A partnership towards novel IBD therapeutics


Target Validation and Discovery Studies


High-throughput screening to discovery novel targets, pathways, compound hits and drugs using our
robust and screenable assays.

Using a smart library, we can identify hits among 2460 compounds with a set-up of:

  • Automated cell seeding and exposure
  • 164 OrganoPlates®
  • 6560 chips

Want to know more?


Partner with us to develop next-generation therapies. We stand shoulder to shoulder to understand disease mechanisms better.

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