Company Profile

Company Overview

We work at the intersection of design, biology and engineering – developing new technologies, products & applications that emulate living human biology. Our systems are enabling a new era of precision medicine and personalized health applications.

Our founding team pioneered the original human “Organs-on-Chips” technology during their residency within the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. Organ-Chips - such as the lung, liver, brain or kidney - are micro-engineered environments lined with living human cells and tissues. Each chip recreates the natural physiology and mechanical forces that cells experience within the human body.

The Organs-on-Chips technology has been published in high-impact scientific journals, curated into New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and awarded Product Design of the Year 2015 by London’s Design Museum.

Today, our new living “Human Emulation System” is being used by industry, government and academia to understand how different diseases, medicines, chemicals and foods affect human health. The system offers researchers and product development teams a new standard for predicting human response - with greater precision and control than today’s cell-culture or animal-based experimental methods.

Our team are also leading a bold new precision medicine and personal health initiative with Emulate’s clinical partners - named “Patient-on-a-Chip”. The program is developing unique ‘human-chips’ personalized with an individual’s own living cells - to help transform the way each of us can understand our own body and manage our own health