Events
December 2025 | |
 Thu 4 Dec 202511:00 - 18:00 |  Christmas Research Celebration - Queen Mary & WORD+ World Organoid and Organ-Chip Community  Queen Mary University of London Join us at QMUL Centre for predictive in vitro models, London, as we celebrate the latest advancements during 2025! Speaker line-up includes: Keynotes: Prof Martin Knight and Prof Hazel Screen, CPM, QMUL. AstraZeneca: Dr Carol de Santis, Clinical Pharmacology & Safety. Cardiff University: Dr Luned Badder, School of Medicine. Cosyne Therapeutics: Dr Julia Kleniuk & Dr Zoe Smith. GSK: Dr Lisa Mohamet, Target Discovery. Imperial College London: Dr Tamas... |
| Wed 17 Dec 2025 15:00 - 16:00 |  Seminar: CPM Seminar Series - Dr Marc Fernandez-Yague (QMUL)Arts Two Lecture Theatre From Forces to Fields: Decoding and Harnessing Mechanochemical and Bioelectric Signaling for Regenerative Tissue Repair Cells sense and respond to their physical environment through tightly coupled mechanical and biochemical signals. Yet, how these mechanochemical and bioelectric pathways integrate to drive pathological tissue remodeling remains poorly understood. My research aims to decipher and harness these adaptive signaling mechanisms to design precision mechanotherapies for fibrosis and... |
January 2026 | |
| Thu 22 Jan 2026 15:00 - 16:00 |  Seminar: CPM Seminar Series - Prof. Andres Garcia (Georgia Institute of Technology)Arts Two Lecture Theatre Bioengineered Hydrogels for Regenerative Medicine Hydrogels, highly hydrated cross-linked polymer networks, have emerged as powerful synthetic analogs of extracellular matrices for basic cell studies as well as promising biomaterials for regenerative medicine applications. A critical advantage of these synthetic matrices over natural networks is that bioactive functionalities, such as cell adhesive sequences and growth factors, can be incorporated in precise densities while the substrate... |
February 2026 | |
| Wed 25 Feb 2026 15:00 - 16:00 |  Seminar: Seminar: CPM Seminar Series - Dr Norah Fogarty (KCL)Molecular mechanisms regulating human trophectoderm development Molecular mechanisms regulating human trophectoderm development The mammalian embryo forms a blastocyst 5 days after fertilisation comprised of an outer layer of trophectoderm (TE) and the inner cell mass. The TE mediates implantation and is the progenitor of all placental trophoblast cell types that are functionally required for fetal growth and development. Failed blastocyst formation and implantation defects are two of the leading causes of early pregnancy loss in both assisted and... |
March 2026 | |
| Wed 25 Mar 2026 15:00 - 16:00 |  Seminar: CPM Seminar Series - Dr Francesco TedescoTBC Advanced in vitro modelling of neuromuscular diseases and gene therapies The Tedesco laboratory (www.tedescolab.org) harness the regenerative potential of muscle stem cells to create innovative models to study and develop therapies for incurable neuromuscular disorders. Their work pioneered engineering and pre-clinical translation of artificial chromosomes as gene therapy vectors (Tedesco et al., Sci Transl Med 2011; Benedetti et al., EMBO Mol Med 2018), as well as generation, differentiation... |
April 2026 | |
| Wed 22 Apr 2026 15:00 - 16:00 |  Seminar: CPM Seminar Series - Dr Bin Zhang (Brunel University) Arts Two Lecture Theatre Advances in additive manufacturing strategies for tailored drug release and tissue platforms Additive manufacturing offers a versatile toolbox for engineering biomaterials with precise control over architecture, composition, and drug release dynamics. Among these techniques, extrusion-based 3D printing has been widely explored for its ability to customise biomaterials to mimic native tissues, fabricate patterned hydrogels, and enable hybrid printing with multifunctional capabilities-allowing... |