Development of stabilised aligned CNS co-culture technology to model the behaviour of a range of neural cell types
Development of stabilised aligned CNS co-culture technology to model the behaviour of a range of neural cell types
O’Rourke, Caitriona ; Loughlin, Jane ; Drake, Rosemary and Phillips, James (2014). Development of stabilised aligned CNS co-culture technology to model the behaviour of a range of neural cell types. In: 3D Cell Culture 2014, 25-27 June 2014, Freib…
Read more »Doctoral Training Programme in Medical Device Innovation
We are offering a PhD project as part of the DTP in Medical Device Innovation, an exciting new 4 year postgraduate qualification run by the UCL Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBME) that combines an MRes in Medical Technology Entrepreneurship with a three year research project. The research project title is Combining tissue engineering, biomaterials and […]
Read more »Recent advances in neuronal and cardiac tissue engineering
James gave a keynote talk entitled Engineering nervous system tissue at the international symposium Recent advances in neuronal and cardiac tissue engineering: from lab to clinic on 13th June 2014 organised by the Doctoral School for Medicine & Life Sciences at Hasselt University, Belgium.
Read more »School talk: Café Sci at Northampton High School
In March James gave a talk entitled Repairing the body using tissue engineering and regenerative medicine as part of the Café Sci programme organised by students at Northampton High School. If you would like someone from the research group to talk at a science event organised by a school or other organisation please contact us.
Read more »Building stable anisotropic tissues using cellular collagen gels
Phillips, James B. (2014). Building stable anisotropic tissues using cellular collagen gels. Organogenesis, 10(1) pp. 6–8.
Read more »Human dental pulp stem cells can differentiate into Schwann cells and promote and guide neurite outgrowth in an aligned tissue-engineered collagen construct in vitro
Martens, Wendy ; Sanen, Kathleen ; Georgiou, Melanie ; Struys, Tom; Bronckaers, Annelies; Ameloot, Marcel; Phillips, James and Lambrichts, Ivo (2014). Human dental pulp stem cells can differentiate into Schwann cells and promote and guide neurite o…
Read more »Glucose-coated gold nanoparticles transfer across human brain endothelium and enter astrocytes in vitro
Gromnicova, Radka ; Davies, Heather A. ; Sreekanthreddy, Pedagannganagari ; Romero, Ignacio A. ; Lund, Torben; Roitt, Ivan M.; Phillips, James B. and Male, David K. (2013). Glucose-coated gold nanoparticles transfer across human brain endothelium …
Read more »PhD Success
Congratulations to Melanie Georgiou who successfully passed her PhD viva on 28th October 2013. Mel’s PhD thesis title is “Development of a tissue engineered implantable device for the surgical repair of the peripheral nervous system” and her work resulted in a number of publications and presentations as well as successful collaborations and an international award.
Read more »New Paper: Astrocyte response to stem cell therapies
The paper “A 3D in vitro model reveals differences in the astrocyte response elicited by potential stem cell therapies for CNS injury” was published in Regenerative Medicine this week. It is freely available as an Open Access publication and reports a new use for the 3D astrocyte culture models we have developed previously. The astrocyte cultures were […]
Read more »A 3D in vitro model reveals differences in the astrocyte response elicited by potential stem cell therapies for CNS injury
East, Emma ; Johns, Noemie ; Georgiou, Melanie ; Golding, Jon ; Loughlin, Jane ; Kingham, Paul and Phillips, James (2013). A 3D in vitro model reveals differences in the astrocyte response elicited by potential stem cell therapies for CNS injury. …
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