Stefaan Verbruggen

Thanks very much to Prof Damien Lacroix, and to Prof Glen Niebur for making the long trip from @notredame.bsky.social for the viva!

Thanks to Dr Xinshan Li & Prof @enrico-dallara.bsky.social for help supervising after my move to @qmul.ac.uk. A fun collaboration - one I very much hope to continue!

Congratulations to the newly minted Dr Fiona Gibson! 🥳🥳🥳

Fiona has been a fantastic student, consistenly delivering against many challenges throughout her PhD journey, an absolute gem of a first PhD student that I was very lucky to find!

Just back from a fantastic meeting with the Prof Chris Hernandez lab @UCSF. This @EPSRC project applied organ-chips to investigate the gut-bone axis, with Dr Natalia Munoz Castro putting in lots of hard hours in the lab. Thanks to Chris and Prof @kelseyhcollins.bsky.social for fabulous hosting!

Cheers Claire! Seeing those copy-edited proofs never gets old!

Jobs & Opportunities — The Verbruggen Lab

🚨 PhD Studentship 🚨

Interested in organoid and organ-chip models of cancer? 🧫

Join us to explore new treatments for osteosarcoma! Funded by Willberry Wonder Pony Charity, join us at @qmul.ac.uk, alongside Dr Lucia Cottone & Prof @fionafreeman.bsky.social!

Details:
www.theverbruggenlab.com/jobs

Altered vertebral biomechanical properties in prostate cancer patients following androgen deprivation therapy Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for localised and metastatic prostate cancer (PCa) is known to improve survival in patients but has been associated…

Huge #ProudPI moment - congratulations to Fiona Gibson on her first first-author paper!

A fun collaboration with lots of colleagues at @insigneoinstitute.bsky.social, Fiona has explored the effects of prostate cancer on the strength of patients' vertebrae.

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Associate or Senior Editor (biofabrication and microengineered systems), Nature Communications Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor (Biofabrication and Microengineered Systems) Organisation: Nature Communications Locations: Beijing, Jersey City, Nanjing, New York, Philadelphia, Shanghai, Milan...

We are hiring! Associate or senior editor, biofabrication and microengineered systems #scijobs

US, China, Madrid, Milan
Closing date April 7th

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Malaysia visit promotes Queen Mary’s innovations in medical technology In February, a team of academics from Queen Mary University of London travelled to Malaysia to demonstrate our innovative biomedical engineering research. Dr Thilina Lalitharatne, Lecturer in Robotic...

Dr Stefaan Verbruggen @docbruggsbunny.bsky.social, Dr Thilina Lalitharatne and Dr Andrew Spowage @andyspowage.bsky.social gave students and parents hands-on experience with our medical-tech innovations in Malaysia.

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#medicaltech #biomedicalengineering #biomed

Barts Cancer Institute book celebrates two decades of cancer discovery - Barts Cancer Institute - Queen Mary University of London Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary Univerity of London, is delighted to announce the publication of a special commemorative book celebrating twenty years of cancer discoveries since the establishment ...

📖 Today on World Cancer Day, we're delighted to publish a special book celebrating two decades of cancer discoveries since the establishment of the BCI @qmul.ac.uk 🎉

#worldcancerday #WCD2025 #medsky 🧪 @qmulfmd.bsky.social @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social www.bci.qmul.ac.uk/general-news...

🚀 Exciting PhD / Postdoc Opportunities in Biomedical Engineering/Immunology/Bone at Trinity College Dublin🚀

More information on the project and positions can be found at hoeylab.com/vacancies 🌟

Feel free to share this post with your network #PhD #Postdoc #JobOpportunity #Hiring

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Absolutely Joel, we need a straightforward transcriptional readout of mechanotransduction... maybe for Christmas 🙏

Highly specific and non-invasive imaging of Piezo1-dependent activity across scales using GenEPi - Nature Communications Stretch-activated ion channel Piezo1 contribures to mechanotransduction in many tissues, but its output is mostly measured indirectly. Here, the authors introduce GenEPi, a fluorescent reporter for di...

So true, a bit of a holy grail for now. Closest I've seen is this lovely marker of specific Piezo1 activity, so you can actually see mechanosensing. Beautifully presented by @kkalyviotis.bsky.social in London. Playfully named GenEPi, just in time for ski season! 🏂
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Cheers Claire! Merry Christmas to you & yours too! 🎅🏻

😂 it's a mandatory part of the induction, yes 💁🏻‍♂️

Fantastic to have him show us the wonders of intra-vital imaging at the Bloomsbury Centre for Skeletal Research Meeting, thanks to Scott & team at the RVC for fabulous hosting as always!

An early Christmas gift to have @karljlewis.bsky.social visit us to round out our @cornelluniversity.bsky.social - @qmul.ac.uk Global Hub collaboration! Exciting early data and much more osteocyte mechanobiology fun to come!

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📢We're recruiting! Fully funded PhD studentship starting Oct 2025. Interested in #mechanobiology #CancerResearch #Immunology? Awesome project w/
@leonerossetti.bsky.social
&
@koechllab.bsky.social
studying the impact of tissue mechanics on T-cells 👩‍🔬
kcl.ac.uk/dentistry/re.... Deadline 19 Jan

PhD Projects for 2025 Entry: QMUL Centre for Predictive in vitro Models The Centre for Predictive in vitro Models (CPM) represents multidisciplinary research focusing on the development and use of predictive in vitro models at Queen Mary University of London. This incorpo...

🔬🧫 We have a funded PhD fellowship, co-supervised by myself, Tina Chowdhury & @docbruggsbunny.bsky.social @qmulse.bsky.social @qmulfmd.bsky.social that will involve developing novel organ-on-chip technologies to study the vaginal microbiome. Deadline 6th January!

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What an entrance! Congrats Tomas! 👏👏👏

The Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) has officially joined BlueSky! 🦋

We are here to connect, share, and inspire through cutting-edge #orthopaedic research and innovations. Follow us to stay updated on events, deadlines, and insights from your global #orthocommunity.

As we join the platform, we thought it would be quite fitting to share one of the first papers on Bluesky, authored by @qmul.ac.uk. Read it here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... @ignactro.bsky.social

Comical flasks of wine at the Mechanobiology Shaping Life meeting in London! @sebcallens.bsky.social

PhD Projects for 2025 Entry: QMUL Centre for Predictive in vitro Models The Centre for Predictive in vitro Models (CPM) represents multidisciplinary research focusing on the development and use of predictive in vitro models at Queen Mary University of London. This incorpo...

👩‍⚕️ 5. EPSRC Funded PhD Studentship: A multi-organ model for breast cancer metastasis to bone and liver

📅 Deadline: 6th January 2025

🔗 www.cpm.qmul.ac.uk/cdt/applicat...

PhD Projects for 2025 Entry: QMUL Centre for Predictive in vitro Models The Centre for Predictive in vitro Models (CPM) represents multidisciplinary research focusing on the development and use of predictive in vitro models at Queen Mary University of London. This incorpo...

👩‍⚕️ 4. EPSRC Funded PhD Studentship: Vaginal probiotics for reproductive health: microbiome organ-chip

📅 Deadline: 6th January 2025

🔗 www.cpm.qmul.ac.uk/cdt/applicat...

PhD Projects for 2025 Entry: QMUL Centre for Predictive in vitro Models The Centre for Predictive in vitro Models (CPM) represents multidisciplinary research focusing on the development and use of predictive in vitro models at Queen Mary University of London. This incorpo...

🐶 3. EPSRC Funded PhD Studentship: An organ-chip model of inflammation in the canine cartilage-synovium interface

📅 Deadline: 6th January 2025

Apply for this and other brilliant projects through the CDT application portal: 🔗 www.cpm.qmul.ac.uk/cdt/applicat...

Research Studentships: QMUL School of Engineering and Materials Science Queen Mary University of London's School of Engineering and Materials Science (SEMS) provides outstanding degree programmes coupled with internationally leading research. We offer degrees in: Aerospac...

💀 2. CSC Funded PhD Studentship: Predicting Bone Healing and Risk in Multiple Myeloma Patients via Spinal Biomechanics

📅 Deadline: 29th January 2025

🔗 www.sems.qmul.ac.uk/research/stu...

🧪 1. EPSRC Funded PhD Studentship: Investigating the Disruption of Invading Breast Cancer Cells to the Regenerative Capacity of Bone Cells in a Tissue Engineered Tumour Microenvironment

📅 Deadline: 29th January 2025

🔗 www.sems.qmul.ac.uk/research/stu...

🚨 FIVE Exciting PhD Opportunities to Join Our Team at @qmul.ac.uk! 🚨

Such an exciting line-up of expert speakers, very much looking forward to it!

Check out our database of 47 POSTDOCTORAL fellowships in cancer/oncology.

For each fellowship, we provide a brief description, link to opportunity, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship).

Download this database here (Excel file): research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Good luck!