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Stefaan Verbruggen

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(On BlueSky ๐Ÿฆ‹) Irish bioengineer, Lecturer in #MedTech at @QMULSEMS & @QMULCPM Interested in musculoskeletal #mechanobiology & #metastasis ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ

London, UK
Joined October 2012
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Stefaan Verbruggen
2 years
Absolutely thrilled with our new publication in @AdvSciNews, in which we tackled the thorny problem of the spread of breast and prostate cancer to bone. Press release below, but follow along for a 5 year roller coaster told through the medium of memes ๐Ÿงต.
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2 months
RT @RoyalOsteoSoc: A big step forward for our #BetterBones campaign as @wesstreeting announces 13 new state-of-the-art bone scanners that wโ€ฆ.
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Stefaan Verbruggen
2 months
RT @TanosBarbara: What puzzles me about cilia and cancer is how ciliary signals can promote of block cancer cells. Thank you @oncogenejournโ€ฆ.
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Stefaan Verbruggen
3 months
Thanks very much to Prof @MechanobioD, and to Prof Glen Niebur for making the long trip from @NotreDame for the viva! . Thanks also to Prof Xinshan Li and Prof @E_DallAra for help supervising after my move to @QMUL. A fun collaboration - one I very much hope to continue!.
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Stefaan Verbruggen
3 months
Congratulations to the newly minted Dr Fiona Gibson! ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ. 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!
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3 months
RT @Cancers_MDPI: ๐Ÿ“ข Call for Reading: .*Organ-on-a-Chip and Microfluidic Platforms for Oncology in the UK* .๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ”ฌby Joanne Nolan, et al. @Doโ€ฆ.
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Stefaan Verbruggen
3 months
Just back from a fantastic meeting with the @ProfCJHernandez 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 for fabulous hosting!
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Stefaan Verbruggen
3 months
๐Ÿšจ PhD Studentship Opportunity ๐Ÿšจ . Interested in organoid and organ-chip models of cancer? ๐Ÿงซ . Join us to explore new treatments for osteosarcoma! Funded @chiefchemopony, join us at @QMULCPM, alongside Dr @CottoneLucia & Prof @FreemanFiona1!. Details:.
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Stefaan Verbruggen
3 months
Huge #ProudPI moment - congratulations to Fiona Gibson on her first first-author paper!. A fun collaboration with lots of colleagues at @insigneo, Fiona has explored the effects of prostate cancer on the strength of patients' vertebrae.
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4 months
RT @yungyaolin: ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰Our new Cell Rep Med paper shows engineered human myogenic cells in hydrogels form innervated vascularized myofibers inโ€ฆ.
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4 months
RT @QMULSEMS: Dr Stefaan Verbruggen @DocBruggsBunny, Dr Thilina Dulantha Lalitharatne and Dr Andrew Spowage gave students and parents handsโ€ฆ.
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Stefaan Verbruggen
6 months
RT @QMULSEMS: Did you catch the @Ri_Science Christmas Lecture last night?. A team from @hazelscreen's BioMedical Engineering group helped tโ€ฆ.
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Stefaan Verbruggen
7 months
Fantastic to have him show us the wonders of intra-vital imaging at the Bloomsbury Centre for Skeletal Research Meeting, thanks to @DrScottJRoberts & team at @RoyalVetCollege for fabulous hosting as always!.
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Stefaan Verbruggen
7 months
An early Christmas gift to have @karl_j_lewis visit us to round out our @Cornell - @QMUL Global Hub collaboration! Exciting early data and much more osteocyte mechanobiology fun to come!
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Stefaan Verbruggen
7 months
RT @dr_aikta: Another super afternoon at @RoyalVetCollege for the Xmas #BloomsburyCentreforSkeletalResearch Meeting. What an excellent progโ€ฆ.
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7 months
RT @ruairirobertson: ๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿงซ๐Ÿฆ  We have a fully-funded PhD fellowship, co-supervised by myself, @ttchowdhury & @DocBruggsBunny at @QMUL that willโ€ฆ.
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Stefaan Verbruggen
7 months
RT @RAEngNews: ๐ŸŽ๏ธ From a non-scientific background to leading @QMUL's Formula Student team @QueenMaryFS and securing a contract within Formโ€ฆ.
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Stefaan Verbruggen
7 months
Comical flasks of wine at the Mechanobiology Shaping Life meeting in London!.@sebacallens @MeadhbhBrennan
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Stefaan Verbruggen
7 months
๐Ÿงซ 5. EPSRC Funded PhD Studentship: A multi-organ model for breast cancer metastasis to bone and liver. ๐Ÿ“… Deadline: 6th January 2025.
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Stefaan Verbruggen
7 months
๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€โš•๏ธ 4. EPSRC Funded PhD Studentship: Vaginal probiotics for reproductive health: microbiome organ-chip . ๐Ÿ“… Deadline: 6th January 2025.
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