Comical flasks of wine at the Mechanobiology Shaping Life meeting in London! Sebastien Callens Meadhbh Brennan

🏎️ From a non-scientific background to leading Queen Mary University of London's Formula Student team QM Formula Student and securing a contract within Formula 1, Cara Fox’s journey is a testament to passion and perseverance. Find out more in #IngeniaMag: ingenia.org.uk/articles/qa-ca…

🔬🧫🦠 We have a fully-funded PhD fellowship, co-supervised by myself, Dr. Tina Chowdhury & Stefaan Verbruggen at Queen Mary University of London that will involve developing novel organ-on-chip technologies to study the vaginal microbiome. Deadline 6th January! cpm.qmul.ac.uk/cdt/applicatio…

Another super afternoon at Royal Veterinary College (RVC) for the Xmas #BloomsburyCentreforSkeletalResearch Meeting. What an excellent program! A big thank you goes to the organising committee and our speakers for their engaging talks. Delighted to be joining the committee as an #ECRRep 🦴👩🏽‍💻🥼

Did you catch the Royal Institution (now on Bluesky) Christmas Lecture last night? A team from Hazel Screen's BioMedical Engineering group helped to devise the experiment to test the strength of tendons. Find out more and watch back: sems.qmul.ac.uk/news/7041/prof… #thebigfoodhack #christmaslectures

Dr Stefaan Verbruggen Stefaan Verbruggen, Dr Thilina Dulantha Lalitharatne and Dr Andrew Spowage gave students and parents hands-on experience with our medical-tech innovations in Malaysia. sems.qmul.ac.uk/news/7101/mala… #medicaltech #biomedicalengineering #biomed

🎉🎉🎉Our new Cell Rep Med paper shows engineered human myogenic cells in hydrogels form innervated vascularized myofibers in dystrophic mouse muscle on 6-month engraftment—w/o host muscle modulation, improving clinical relevance and animal welfare (3Rs). shorturl.at/4jmx0

Huge #ProudPI moment - congratulations to Fiona Gibson on her first first-author paper! A fun collaboration with lots of colleagues at Insigneo Institute, Fiona has explored the effects of prostate cancer on the strength of patients' vertebrae. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨 PhD Studentship Opportunity 🚨 Interested in organoid and organ-chip models of cancer? 🧫 Join us to explore new treatments for osteosarcoma! Funded Willberry Wonder Pony, join us at QMUL Centre for Predictive in vitro Models (CPM), alongside Dr Lucia Cottone & Prof Fiona Freeman! Details: theverbruggenlab.com/jobs

📢 Call for Reading: *Organ-on-a-Chip and Microfluidic Platforms for Oncology in the UK* 👨‍🔬by Joanne Nolan, et al. Stefaan Verbruggen Queen Mary University of London #OpenAccess 🔓mdpi.com/2072-6694/15/3…

Just back from a fantastic meeting with the Christopher Hernandez lab UC San Francisco. This Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council project applied organ-chips to investigate the gut-bone axis, with Dr Natalia Munoz Castro putting in lots of hard hours in the lab. Thanks to Chris and Prof Kelsey Collins for fabulous hosting!

What puzzles me about cilia and cancer is how ciliary signals can promote of block cancer cells. Thank you Oncogene Journal, colleagues, reviewers and editors and hopefully we did a good job with this review. #cancer #cilia nature.com/articles/s4138…

A big step forward for our #BetterBones campaign as Wes Streeting announces 13 new state-of-the-art bone scanners that will helps tens of thousands of people to get the early diagnosis of osteoporosis they need. #ThanksWes express.co.uk/news/uk/205338…