News
Latest news from the group
School talk: Café Sci at Northampton High School
Added 30 March, 2014In 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.
PhD Success
Added 25 November, 2013Congratulations 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
Added 29 October, 2013The 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 used to screen therapeutic cells in vitro, allowing cells likely to trigger an astrocyte response to be identified.
The Phillips Lab is moving to UCL
Added 25 September, 2013The 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 the new labs will occur with minimal disruption to ongoing projects. All current collaborations and activities will continue after the move, with an exciting new project in peripheral nerve repair due to start in early 2014.