The University of Glasgow
Centre for the
Cellular Microenvironment
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!
We have been shortlisted for the Times Higher Education Awards 2018 with our FABW funded project for bone repair technologies. We are in the Research Project of the Year: STEM category. The award ceremony is scheduled for the 29th of November in London. More details about the shortlisting and the project in this blog post in our …
Prof Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez will deliver a talk titled Engineering the cellular microenvironment next Wednesday 23rd of May in Reykjavik, Iceland, as speaker in the International workshop on advanced materials for healthcare applications This international workshop takes place at the University of Iceland this week and gathers researchers from multidisciplinary domains on the use of advanced materials in distinct …
Dr Marco Cantini, currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for the Cellular Microenviroment, has been awarded an MRC UKRI Rutherford Fund Fellowship to develop Engineered microenvironments to harvest stem cell response to viscosity for cartilage repair. This fellowship is part of the National Productivity Investment Fund investment in UKRI Innovation and Rutherford Fund Fellowships, awarded …