Director HTS
Pivot Park Screening Centre
Oss, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
Tijmen Booij, PhD is currently working at the Pivot Park Screening Centre as Director HTS. Tijmen has a background in Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences and obtained his degees and PhD at Leiden University in the Netherlands. During his studies and PhD Tijmen developed 3D-cell based assays for drug screening for different cancer models as well as for polycystic kidney disease in close collaboration with OcellO B.V. After obtaining his PhD, Tijmen moved to Switzerland where he worked first as screening specialist and later as group leader, leading a HTS screening group at NEXUS Personalized Health Technologies, a core facility of ETH Zurich. During this time he miniaturized and automated assays for research groups, using a fully-automated HTS system.
During this time, he also used his expertise in lab automation and 3D cell culture assays to develop highly miniaturized organoid screening assays in 384- and 1536 well plate format. After 6 years in Zurich, Tijmen recently moved back to the Netherlands to join the Pivot Park Screening Centre as Director HTS.
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Screen Design and Assay Technologies Topical Interest Group
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
16:00 – 16:45 CEST
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
12:30 – 13:30 CEST