Dr. Elena Kromidas

Senior Scientist

Elena studied Technical Biology at the University of Stuttgart and gained insight in embryology as a visiting student at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Rovinj, Croatia, and marine biology at the Open Ocean Science Centre in Dahab, Egypt. During her master studies, Elena went to Boston for her master thesis at Harvard Medical School, working on an inhibitor of proteasomal degradation of proteins. After working on CRISPR-Cas9 at Boehringer Ingelheim in Biberach as an intern, she joined the Loskill-Lab to pursue her PhD on the development and characterization of a Cervix-on-Chip focusing on disease modelling.

In 2024 she joined as the head of the 3R-Center Business Unit for In Vitro Models and Alternatives to Animal Testing.

In her free time, she enjoys dancing, acrobatics, skiing in the wintertime and diving in summer.

Publications

E. Kromidas, A. Geier, A. Weghofer, H.-Y. Liu, M. Weiss, P. Loskill
Immunocompetent PDMS-free Organ-on-Chip Model of Cervical Cancer Integrating Patient-Specific Cervical Fibroblasts and Neutrophils
Adv. Healthc. Mater., 2023, 2302714, https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.202302714

I.T. Maulana, E. Kromidas, L. Wallstabe, M. Cipriano, M. Alb, C. Zaupa, M. Hudescek, B. Fogal, P. Loskill
Immunocompetent cancer-on-chip models to assess immuno-oncology therapy
Adv. Drug. Deliv. Rev., 2021, 173, 281-305, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addr.2021.03.015

J. Rogal, C. Binder, E. Kromidas, J. Roosz, C. Probst, S. Schneider, K. Schenke-Layland, P. Loskill
WAT-on-a-chip integrating human mature white adipocytes for mechanistic research and pharmaceutical applications
Sci. Rep., 2020, 10, 6666, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-63710-4