Dr. Evita van de Steeg (F) is senior scientist at the department MHR of TNO. She received her PhD in Pharmacology in 2010 (Utrecht University) and spent part of her PhD at the pharmaceutical company GSK (UK). Evita is an expert in the field of drug pharmacokinetics, specifically in studying intestinal uptake, microbiome-induced drug metabolism and hepatic handling of compounds. She (co)authored more than 35 publications in this area (h-index 25), supervised more than 20 MSc students and currently has 1 postdoctoral scientist in her lab and is co-promoter of 4 predoctoral PhD candidates. In her current function at TNO she is responsible for the development of innovative animal-free models to better predict profiles and activities of compounds (including nutrients and drugs) amongst others applying ex vivo human tissue models and microfluidic organ on-a-chip models.