Dan Dongeun Huh, Wilf Family Term Assistant Professor in the department of bioengineering in Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, and his BIOlines research group were recently recognized with the Science Award in the 2018 Lush Prize for work on microfabricated devices that mimic the function of various organs using living cells.

These organ-on-a-chip devices, which include an eye-on-a-chip, a placenta-on-a-chip and several others, allow for rapid toxicity and drug-delivery testing as well as the simulation of various diseases.

The cosmetics company Lush awards the Lush Prize to scientists, organizers and communicators that develop or campaign for animal-free alternatives. The Lush Prize comes with a £50,000 (approximately $62,846) award and was presented at a conference in Berlin in November. Dr. Huh provided a keynote address.