The innovative cell culture system developed within the TToP (True Tissue on Platform) project was among the winners of the latest edition of StartCup Lombardia in the Life Science & Medtech category, winning a prize of € 25,000 and the chance to join the PNI (National Innovation Award) competition.
Promoted by Regione Lombardia with the coordination of PoliHub, StartCup Lombardia is a competition organized by local universities and university incubators to encourage the birth of new high-potential businesses.
TToP (True Tissue on Platform) is a modular and versatile platform capable of replicating the physiology of the human body, thus improving the efficienty of the development process of new drugs while minimizing the use of animal models.
Already winner of the Switch2Product 2020 competition and of StartCup Lombardia 2021, TToP was developed in the ATTiC Lab of the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria by Lorenzo Coppadoro, Gianfranco Beniamino Fiore and Monica Soncini. The team also includes Maria Lombardi and Chiara Foglieni of the San Raffele Hospital, who support the project and cooperate in evaluating the device effectiveness.