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UCL Centre for Nerve Engineering
Added 25 May, 2017
The UCL Centre for Nerve Engineering was launched in May 2017 with a vision to create a multidisciplinary, inter-faculty research centre that translates diverse and complementary research in the physical and life sciences at UCL to clinical nerve repair. Our aim is to bring together scientific and engineering expertise from a broad range of disciplines and collaborate directly with clinicians involved in nervous system repair.
Presentation prize
Added 10 November, 2016
PhD Student Melissa Rayner was awarded 1st Prize for her talk "Using advanced 3D engineered cell cultures to analyse the effect of drugs on peripheral nerve regeneration in vitro" at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute Research Away Day on 3rd November 2016.
UCL Special Grand Round lectures: now online
Added 1 February, 2016James Phillips joined UCL peripheral nerve surgeon Mr Tom Quick and a nerve injured patient to present a UCL Special Grand Round session in October 2015. This combination of interactive lectures and discussion entitled "Peripheral Nerve Regeneration: The science, surgery and experience of regenerative neuroscience" was open to the public and is now available to view online.
3R’s Prize for Replacement, Reduction and Refinement of animal use in science
Added 3 June, 2015
MSc Clinical Neuroscience student Charlotte Lee-Reeves was awarded the prize for the most innovative research that supported the 3Rs - Replacement, Reduction and Refinement of animal use in science, at the 16th annual Queen Square Symposium.
The event saw over 60 PhD and MSc students from the UCL Institute of Neurology exhibiting posters based on their current research from a broad range of areas in neuroscience and neurological disease. Charlotte presented the preliminary findings from her project in developing an engineered neural tissue model of neurodegeneration. Her prize was awarded by guest speaker Professor Geoffrey Raisman, who gave the attendees an inspiring talk about neural regeneration and the future of nervous system repair.