Gareth Sullivan is PI in the new Convergence environment funded by UiO:LifeScience

The convergence environment MORGI (Modeling Human Multi-Organ Interaction in Disease - Cancer Cachexia) will create a platform with organ representation technology to explain communication between organs in case of disease.

Primary objective

To unleash next generation in vitro human organoid models for multi-organ interactions in disease -using Cancer Cachexia (CC) as an exemplar of a multi-organ disease.

Project leader: Dr. Tor Erik Rusten Center for Cancer Cell Reprogramming (CanCell), Faculty of Medicine, UiO

Principal investigators:

Dr. Gareth Sullivan Hybrid Technology Hub, Centre for Organ on a Chip Technology, UiO, and Dpt. of Pediatrics, Oslo University Hospital
Anne Kjersti Befring Associate professor, Dpt. of Public and International Law, The Faculty of Law, UiO
Dr. Yoshiaki Tanaka Assistant professor, Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Canada