Events
November 2025 | |
 Wed 19 Nov 202515:00 - 16:00 |  Seminar: CPM Seminar Series - Dr Andrea Serio (KCL)Arts Two Lecture Theatre Engineering Connections: combining stem cells, imaging & engineering to understand human neurobiology and neurodegenerative diseases Stem cell-based models can effectively recapitulate several aspects of development in vitro, allowing to better understand the biological mechanisms underpinning human biology and human disease in a systematic way. Particularly for the field of neurobiology and neurodegeneration, access to these models has been invaluable. However, conventional cultures do... |
December 2025 | |
| Thu 4 Dec 2025 11:00 - 18:00 |  Christmas Research Celebration - Queen Mary & WORD+ World Organoid and Organ-Chip CommunityQueen 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: Keynote. Professor Martin Knight, 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 Korcsmaros. ... |
| 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... |
March 2026 | |
| Wed 25 Mar 2026 15:00 - 16:00 |  Seminar: CPM Seminar Series - 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 Semin 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... |