ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Developing a healthy host-microbiome symbiosis during the first 1000 days of human life is critical for lifelong health. Despite its importance, our understanding is limited and derives from animal studies or associative human trials. Therefore, there is a pressing need for an infant gut model to capture dynamic microbiome-epithelium-immune interactions in early life. In NeoGutChip I will develop and validate a first-of-its-kind in vitro human Infant Gut-Microbiome-Immune-on-a-chip model (iGuMI) that will faithfully simulate the complex anaerobic environment of the infant gut, which current models cannot achieve. I will capitalize on my cutting-edge GuMI and microbiome engineering…
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