Yesterday I had the great pleasure of working with ECHO and artist Jenny Leonard Art in a workshop for families working with the echo charity. I had a blast drawing and sharing why I love cardiovascular research! Thanks as always to Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences public engagement team.

Very excited to say that our first paper on in-vitro models of vascular pathology is out. We review the different aspects to consider when developing these models in the lab. Thanks to my amazing supervisors for all their support Pablo Lamata (CMIB) Eileen Gentleman Lab Rebecca Shipley

This was a lot of fun. Thanks to everyone involved in making it happen! #steamweek21

❤️Ever wondered what your heart really sounded like during exercise? Rest? Parties? ❤️ Researchers Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences Maastricht University & designers from Cellule created Echoes to record your heartbeat ❤️ What that could mean for clinical care in the future? kcl.ac.uk/news/researche…

We UCL MechEng are tremendously proud of Professor Rebecca Shipley awarded an OBE in the #QueensBirthdayHonours UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering UCL Engineering Congratulations Becky!

So excited that our paper came out yesterday! First, first author experimental paper and it feels wonderful. As always I thank my amazing and supportive supervisors Eileen Gentleman Lab Pablo Lamata (CMIB) and Rebecca Shipley and of my amazing coauthors @HooglandScience Michael

This is such a cliché but this week has shown me 1000 times over that science is about collaborating. What an absolute privilege to be able to come and work with these amazing people, and end a 2 year quest for some data I really needed 😂

Off to London for a week for a wonderful collaboration with Suzette Lust 👩🏼‍🔧+👩🏼‍🔬+👩🏼‍💻 from the Eileen Gentleman Lab at King's College London ! Exciting science upcoming!! 🤩🔬 #womeninSTEM

Claire Dessalles BF Congratulations🥳 I will read it again (& again)😆

This week I worked with Claire Dessalles here in our lab in London. This collaboration has been and continues to be, one of the most exciting and enjoyable parts of my PhD. I know I have found a life long colleague who I will look to work with in the future and an amazing friend

Something is a happening 🤞🤞🤞

Congratulations to Jonna whose review paper discussing the impact of intrinsic mechanical cues on stem cells and embryogenesis is out today! 🥳🙌frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Time to know some British Heart Foundation funded research! Vote for your favourite project: bhf.org.uk/how-you-can-he…. If doubts to cast your vote, "Improving the identification of faulty valves" is my suggestion 😉 If you want more on public engagement and our research: cmib.website/public-engagem…

48h left to cast your vote - and good fun to learn about some great research funded by British Heart Foundation !!

Your smart phone could soon work as an electronic stethoscope using an app that is allowing thousands of people to upload their heart sounds #NewScientistLive Pablo Lamata (CMIB) newscientist.com/article/234166…

Two strokes about research 1. It’s a team work - a pleasure to share this day with Cam 🔬 & Dr Cristobal Rodero, award dedicated to whole team and collaborators 2. It’s a roller coaster, hence the value of public engagement to recharge our motivation batteries Thanks British Heart Foundation !!

Thrilled to share our new manuscript out in Nature Reviews Methods Primers 🙌where we discuss how hydrogels can provide mechanical cues to encapsulated cells for studies in cell biology 👩‍🔬 & applications in regenerative medicine, disease modelling & immunotherapies 🧪 rdcu.be/c1Fmt

Massive congratulations to CCRB members for receiving academic promotions in Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences at King's 🎉🎉 Eileen Gentleman Eileen Gentleman Lab was promoted to Professor and Ana Angelova Volponi was promoted to Reader. Thoroughly deserved!

Check out our paper in Adv Func Mater @AdvSciNews 🙌🥳We put a FRET sensor of MMP activity into PEG hydrogels & used fluorescence lifetime imaging to monitor MMP activity around cells. We show real-time MMP activity without genetically modifying cells. 🧵👇onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

Proud professor moment at the January graduation 🥹. Congratulations again to Suzette Lust 👩🏼‍🔧+👩🏼‍🔬+👩🏼‍💻 and Nick! Also thrilled every time I get to wear by fab green robes 😎Tulane University