Regenerative Medicine Facilities
Regenerative Medicine Center Utrecht (RMCU)
To facilitate interdisciplinary innovation, the majority of our researchers work together at the Regenerative Medicine Center Utrecht (RMCU), located at the vibrant . Watch the video to get an impression.
The Regenerative Medicine Center Utrecht brings all disciplines under one roof
At RMCU, around 350 researchers collaborate under one roof, most of them from UMC Utrecht, together with colleagues from Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ and the Hubrecht Institute. By sharing state-of-the-art equipment and facilities in close proximity, they foster daily interaction, spark collaboration, and strengthen the connection to the clinic.
Did you know you can explore a wide variety of facilities, equipment, and support through the Technology Hub of the UMC Utrecht? Quickly search for specific equipment or find interesting trainings and events. Here, we highlight a few facilities interesting for Regenerative Medicine research.
Want to see your regenerative therapy ideas become real-world health care solutions? Located in Utrecht, Innovation Center for Advanced Therapies (ICAT) provides an innovation space to bring your advanced therapies to the next level. ICAT supports the development, testing, and scaling of regenerative treatments, helping you refine and standardize advanced therapeutics faster and more efficiently.
Ombion is a national centre for valorizing and disseminating animal-free innovations and expertise. It aims to improve and accelerate the transition of new biomedical innovations to patients and users, at lower costs, and without the use of animals. Soon to be located at Utrecht Science park, Ombion gives researchers and organizations the expertise, infrastructure, and support to advance animal-free biomedical research and translation
Looking for ways AI can accelerate your research? The Health AI lab Living technologies combines AI and living cell technologies to advance personalized, regenerative, and curative treatments. By applying AI to microscopy, bioprinting, and automation, the lab transforms early-stage research into clinical applications.
Utrecht Platform for Organoid Technology (UPORT) supports the generation of ‘living biobanks’ of healthy and diseased human tissues. Such biobanks are typically generated using organoid and induced pluripotent stem cell culturing technologies. UPORT provides a logistical infrastructure for rapid and standardized acquisition of human tissues, based on approved protocols for patient inclusion.
Biofabrication Facility Utrecht brings together leading scientists who combine techniques to accelerate the development of functional tissues for potential clinical applications. The lab specializes in the creation of scaffolds for in-vitro and in-vivo experiments from micro to macro scale. They offers a comprehensive range of printing services, including the production of highly flexible micro-meshes of bioresorbable polycaprolactone, and a variety of commercial thermoplastics.
Looking to turn your human cellular disease models into reliable tools that impact patient care? The Advanced Technology Platform for Cellular Screening at UMC Utrecht helps researchers achieve this by providing automated human cellular models, microscopy-based medium- to high-throughput screening (2D/3D, high-content, live-cell), and expert consultancy in pre-clinical lab automation and experimental design—enabling standardized, scalable, and efficient research.
Induced pluripotent cells (iPSC) facility offers generation of iPSCs from patient blood or tissue-derived cell samples. They provide differentiation of iPSCs into various cell types and generation of different 3D microtissues and other miniaturized tissue/organ models for disease modelling.
Are you a UMC Utrecht researcher and do you want to develop a new in vitro disease model or are you looking for specific expertise for your model? You can contact the UMC Utrecht in vitro disease model coordinator Alain van Mil. He can answer questions about available in vitro disease model technologies and services, connect you with the right experts, and support intake requests for developing new models.