Micro fluidic system for drug testing


In the process of drug development, animal testing has low reliability because it doesn’t represent human physiological conditions. As a result, it takes extraordinary cost and time to develop a new drug. Therefore, we developed a microfluidic device integrated with human-derived hepatocyte and myocardial cells and a metabolite circulation system fabricated by advanced 3D lithography to reproduce metabolism of internal human body in vitro as a higher reliable method for drug testing.

[Applications]

  •  pharmacological test
  •  Personalized medicine

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[Publication]

  • Y. Kato et al., Transducers’15, Anchorage, AK (June, 2015).