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Speaker

Elsa Batista, IPQ

Abstract

The measurement of liquid flow, both inside and outside the human body, plays a crucial role in medical technology. The safety and reliability of numerous medical devices - such as dialysis machines, infusion devices, and liquid handling systems for in vitro diagnostics that work at ultra low flow rates - depend on the precise and safe dosing of fluids.

For critical infusion applications involving vulnerable patients, it is essential to ensure rigorous and well controlled drug administration. This can only be achieved through improved dosing accuracy and traceable measurement of all relevant quantities, namely volume, flow rate, and pressure, both in drug delivery devices and in inline sensors operating at very low flow rates. In parallel, the development of advanced diagnostic technologies such as organ on chip systems has further reinforced the need for highly precise flow measurements. These biomimetic microdevices - which simulate the function of human organs through perfused microchannels - rely on extremely well controlled flows to deliver reliable results in pharmacological testing, toxicology studies, and diagnostic applications. Accurate perfusion of nutrients, drugs, or biomarkers within organ on chip platforms is essential for reproducibility and for the metrological validation of the biological responses observed. High precision flow and pressure sensors are therefore critical to ensuring the performance and traceability of these innovative systems. In this context, the contribution of the metrological infrastructures recently implemented in European National Metrology Institutes, within the scope of the European projects: MeDD - Metrology for Drug Delivery and MFMET - Establishing Metrology Standards in Microfluidic Devices, has been fundamental not only for ensuring safer infusion therapy in healthcare, but also for supporting the development and validation of new diagnostic platforms, including technologies based on organ on chip systems. In these areas, accuracy, traceability, and comparability of measurements are decisive factors for patient safety and for confidence in laboratory results. At IPQ’s Volume and Flow Laboratory, several advanced gravimetric and optical flow measurement techniques have been developed and validated. These innovations have enabled the expansion of IPQ’s calibration capabilities and the formal publication of new Measurement Calibration Capabilities (CMCs). As a result, the laboratory can now calibrate high precision flow measurement instruments operating across a wide range - from 0,0003 mL/h to 2000 mL/h - covering ultra low microfluidic regimes up to clinically and industrially relevant flow rates. This enhanced capability supports applications in medical devices, pharmaceutical technologies, microfluidics, and emerging fields such as organ on chip and diagnostic microsystems.

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Program

09:15 - 09:30

Accreditation

08:30 - 19:30

Champalimaud Auditorium

09:15 - 09:30

Opening Cerimony

09:30 - 10:30

Auditorium | sponsored by EDP

09:15 - 09:30

A Felicidade é Lucrativa

10:30 - 11:15

EDP Main Stage

09:15 - 09:30

Break Time

11:15 - 11:30

Auditorium

09:15 - 09:30

Automação & Inovação nos Laboratórios Ambientais

11:30 - 12:10

Eurofins Stage

From Pharma to Forensics: When Error Is Not an Option — Can We Trust AI?

09:15 - 09:30

11:30 - 12:10

Ambidata Stage

09:15 - 09:30

The Lab of the Future project

11:30 - 12:10

Normax Stage

09:15 - 09:30

Portugal Clinical Studies Platform: A Single Point of Contact for Clinical Research

11:30 - 12:10

Inês de Castro

09:15 - 09:30

ISO 17034: Uso de Materiales de Referencia Certificados como Patrón

11:30 - 12:10

Sondar Stage

09:15 - 09:30

Characterization of Nitrogen Oxide Emissions in Domestic Gas Appliances

11:30 - 12:10

Envienergy Stage

09:15 - 09:30

From Concept to Creation: A Hands-on Additive Manufacturing Workshop

11:30 - 12:10

Cytosens Stage

09:15 - 09:30

Break Time

12:10 - 12:20

Auditorium

09:15 - 09:30

The Next Operational Layer: AI Agents in Practice in Laboratories

12:20 - 13:00

Eurofins Stage

09:15 - 09:30

O Preço Invisível de Liderar

12:20 - 13:00

Ambidata Stage

09:15 - 09:30

TBD

12:20 - 13:00

Normax Stage

09:15 - 09:30

Upscalling and process control in health products: from lab to industrial production

12:20 - 13:00

Inês de Castro

09:15 - 09:30

When Every Drop Makes a Difference: Innovation in Volume and Flow Measurement in Healthcare

12:20 - 13:00

Sondar Stage

09:15 - 09:30

Would my invention be patentable? What requirements should I care about?

12:20 - 13:00

Envienergy Stage

From Concept to Creation: A Hands-on Additive Manufacturing Workshop

09:15 - 09:30

12:20 - 13:00

Cytosens Stage

09:15 - 09:30

Lunch Time

13:00 - 14:00