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 […]

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.

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.

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.

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…

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 …

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.

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 […]

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. …

The Phillips Lab is moving to UCL

The research group is moving to University College London on 1st November 2013 as James has been appointed to the post of Senior Lecturer in Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering. This is an exciting change that will open up many new opportunities. The facilities and research environment offered at UCL are excellent and the transition to […]