Speaker/moderator profile
prof. dr. E.M.J. (Sabeth) Verpoorte

Professor of Pharmaceutical Analysis at Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy, University of Groningen

Moderator pre-event Nano4Health and track iMNC2020 Nano4Health
Nano4Health – title tba

Organisation: Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen
Association for Laboratory Automation: Short course instructor
Seyonic SA: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board

Speaker bio

Pharmaceutical Analysis, Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

E.M.J. (Sabeth) Verpoorte has almost 30 years of research experience in the microfluidics or lab-on-a-chip field. Her introduction to the field came in 1990, when she came from Canada as a postdoctoral researcher in the pioneering µTAS group headed by Professor A. Manz at Ciba Ltd., Basel, Switzerland. In 2003, Sabeth made a strategic switch to assume a Chair in the Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy, making a foray into a new research environment dominated by cells, tissue and drug development. Ongoing projects involve the development of organ-on-a-chip systems to study drug metabolism (liver chip, gut chip), assess organ interactions (intestine-liver chip) and diagnose endothelial dysfunction. Efforts have also concentrated on continuous-flow particle separation strategies, paper microfluidics, as well as miniaturized analytical instrumentation (paper spray ionization, multidimensional chromatography). The acquisition of interdisciplinary projects involving scientists from the life sciences, chemical, and physics disciplines continues to be a driving force in her research.