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UK Microfluidics Conference 2026
This annual event brings together academic innovators and sector leaders to bridge the gap between scientific breakthroughs and real-world industrial impact.
Satellite Workshop: Engaging with the Microfluidics Industry
We’re excited to present at the 3rd UK Microfluidics Conference 2026 Satellite workshop: Engaging with the Microfluidics Industry!
Microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip technologies are central to modern research. They create a vital link between laboratory discovery and commercial reality. This annual event brings together academic innovators and sector leaders to bridge the gap between scientific breakthroughs and real-world industrial impact. The workshop’s core themes include fostering deep collaboration across policy and commercial domains, providing actionable guidance for ecosystem navigation, facilitating high-value networking, and exploring scalable translation pipelines.
This year, the focus of the workshop is the expansion of the UK microfluidics ecosystem at both ends: with researchers gaining clear strategic paths to commercialisation, and industry leaders uncovering new collaborative opportunities to drive growth.
Attend our keynote presentation:
The Great Lab Rat Escape – How Microphysiological Systems are Transforming Drug Discovery with Human-Relevant Data
Drug discovery still depends heavily on preclinical models that often fail to predict what happens in humans, contributing to late-stage attrition, escalating costs, and continued reliance on animal testing. Microphysiological systems (MPS), enabled by microfluidics, offer a powerful alternative by recreating key aspects of human physiology in vitro through controlled perfusion, tissue-specific architecture, and organ–organ communication.
In this keynote, Gareth Evans will discuss how MPS are being used to strengthen decision-making in the preclinical stage, where better data can help researchers progress the correct candidates to clinical testing with greater confidence. The talk will showcase how CN Bio is addressing this challenge through PhysioMimix® Core — a unified organ-on-a-chip platform designed to support single-organ, multi-organ, and higher-throughput workflows in a familiar plate-based format. With PDMS-free multi-chip plates, adjustable flow, longitudinal sampling, and compatibility with a wide range of biologically relevant models, the system is designed to combine mechanistic insight with practical scalability.
The session will explore the technical and biological factors that underpin successful adoption, from physiological relevance and reproducibility to automation, throughput and robust biomarker generation, and will consider how these capabilities are helping move MPS towards routine use in modern drug discovery workflows.
Date: 18 June 2026, Thursday
Time: 13:45 – 14:00
Presenters: Dr Gareth Evans
Meet the team at UK Microfluidics Conference 2026:
Dr. Gareth Evans
Senior Development Engineer
Find out more about our PhysioMimx Core