The University of Glasgow
Centre for the
Cellular Microenvironment
On Wednesday 1st July, the CeMi held its first Symposium focusing on the translation of academic research. This one-day event had a range of speakers from academia and companies, as well as a keynote talk by Professor Jeffrey Hubbell from University of Chicago, titled: Engineering the matrix – from regeneration to cancer immunotherapy. The day …
Congratulations to Dr. Cristina Gonzalez-Garcia who has been recently awarded the New Investigator Award from the EPSRC, as her first grant. This research project, in the area of Healthcare technologies, will aim to develop New bioactive polysaccharide-based hydrogels for growth factors delivery during tissue repair. A new postdoc and a PhD student will be recruited …
Dr Kimia Witte has a paper accepted and published in Materials Today Bio journal. The paper looks at bacteria laden microgels as autonomous 3D environments for stem cell engineering and is a result of the research in the lab funded by EPSRC. You can read the full paper here.
Congratulations to our newest Doctors of Philosophy from the CeMi group! We are all so proud of them and look forward to seeing them move on and achieve great things. #worldchangers #UofGgrad2019 Graduating summer 2019 was: Dr Paula Sweeten, PhD Dr Robert Docherty, PhD Dr Sara Trujillo Munoz, PhD
Last Saturday some of us went to IKEA Braehead Glasgow for the exciting ‘at home with life sciences‘ outreach event. Most of the public not expecting us and the amount of people at IKEA made this event rather special and a lot of fun. Some of us went there as CeMi to talk about our work in bone …
A video abstract of our recent paper published on the journal Advanced Materials is now available on youtube. “Bacteria‐Based Materials for Stem Cell Engineering” reports our latest progress in our living biointerfaces line of research. Jake, Alex and the rest of the team utilise genetically modified non-pathogenic bacteria to control and direct stem cell biology!