Longfonds managing director Michael Rutgers and prof.dr. Hans Clevers discuss a wide range of fascinating topics: the rapid development of human mini-organs ('organoids'), future biobanks filled with frozen mini-organs ready for transplantation-on-demand and personalized medicine using your own lab-grown mini-organs. This may still sound like science fiction, but an international collaboration of leading scientists and doctors have joined forces to accelerate a medical breakthrough.
Clevers (Hubrecht Institute and leader of the Longfonds consortium on lung tissue regeneration) enjoys worldwide recognition as one of the most important founders of revolutionary organoid technology.
