Renee Moerkens

Renée Moerkens is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Ombion Centre for Animal-free Biomedical Translation, where she works towards making animal-free innovations industry- and regulatory-ready. Her work focuses on assessing the reproducibility and human relevance of organoid and organ-on-chip systems, with a particular interest in automation and translation to end-users. She obtained her PhD from the University Medical Center Groningen, where she developed human intestinal models using pluripotent stem cells and organ-on-chip technology. During her PhD, she was actively involved in the Netherlands Organ-on-Chip Initiative (NOCI), the European Organ-on-Chip Society (EUROoCS), and Young TPI. Prior to her PhD, she worked as a Scientist at Novo Nordisk following a Master’s degree in Cellular and Molecular Biotechnology from Wageningen University.