Stefaan Verbruggen
@DocBruggsBunny
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(On BlueSky 🦋) Irish bioengineer, Lecturer in #MedTech at @QMULSEMS & @QMULCPM Interested in musculoskeletal #mechanobiology & #metastasis 🇮🇪🇪🇺🏳️🌈
London, UK
Joined October 2012
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 🧵 https://t.co/w6qR8k03HA
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A big step forward for our #BetterBones campaign as @wesstreeting announces 13 new state-of-the-art bone scanners that will helps tens of thousands of people to get the early diagnosis of osteoporosis they need. #ThanksWes
express.co.uk
Campaign win for Sunday Express as 13 new bone scanners set to transform diagnosis and care for thousands at risk of brittle bones
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What puzzles me about cilia and cancer is how ciliary signals can promote of block cancer cells. Thank you @oncogenejournal, colleagues, reviewers and editors and hopefully we did a good job with this review. #cancer #cilia
https://t.co/vLEACGZNnI
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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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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!
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📢 Call for Reading: *Organ-on-a-Chip and Microfluidic Platforms for Oncology in the UK* 👨🔬by Joanne Nolan, et al. @DocBruggsBunny @QMUL
#OpenAccess 🔓 https://t.co/4IZI9pB1fb
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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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🚨 PhD Studentship Opportunity 🚨 Interested in organoid and organ-chip models of cancer? 🧫 Join us to explore new treatments for osteosarcoma! Funded @chiefchemopony, join us at @QMULCPM, alongside Dr @CottoneLucia & Prof @FreemanFiona1! Details: https://t.co/MQvKBfUacG
theverbruggenlab.com
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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. https://t.co/oj3z0HThlM
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🎉🎉🎉Our new Cell Rep Med paper shows engineered human myogenic cells in hydrogels form innervated vascularized myofibers in dystrophic mouse muscle on 6-month engraftment—w/o host muscle modulation, improving clinical relevance and animal welfare (3Rs). https://t.co/jFISIPZW11
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Dr Stefaan Verbruggen @DocBruggsBunny, Dr Thilina Dulantha Lalitharatne and Dr Andrew Spowage gave students and parents hands-on experience with our medical-tech innovations in Malaysia. https://t.co/INcmzPIhEG
#medicaltech #biomedicalengineering #biomed
sems.qmul.ac.uk
In late February, a team from Queen Mary University of London travelled to Malaysia to demonstrate our innovative research in medical technology, at an event organised by the British Council. Dr...
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Did you catch the @Ri_Science Christmas Lecture last night? A team from @hazelscreen's BioMedical Engineering group helped to devise the experiment to test the strength of tendons. Find out more and watch back: https://t.co/5nq9kWmelo
#thebigfoodhack #christmaslectures
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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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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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Another super afternoon at @RoyalVetCollege for the Xmas #BloomsburyCentreforSkeletalResearch Meeting. What an excellent program! A big thank you goes to the organising committee and our speakers for their engaging talks. Delighted to be joining the committee as an #ECRRep 🦴👩🏽💻🥼
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🔬🧫🦠 We have a fully-funded PhD fellowship, co-supervised by myself, @ttchowdhury & @DocBruggsBunny at @QMUL that will involve developing novel organ-on-chip technologies to study the vaginal microbiome. Deadline 6th January! https://t.co/PAykoUNbdM
cpm.qmul.ac.uk
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...
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🏎️ From a non-scientific background to leading @QMUL's Formula Student team @QueenMaryFS and securing a contract within Formula 1, Cara Fox’s journey is a testament to passion and perseverance. Find out more in #IngeniaMag: https://t.co/DloLh3kASF
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Comical flasks of wine at the Mechanobiology Shaping Life meeting in London! @sebacallens @MeadhbhBrennan
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🧫 5. EPSRC Funded PhD Studentship: A multi-organ model for breast cancer metastasis to bone and liver 📅 Deadline: 6th January 2025
cpm.qmul.ac.uk
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...
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👩⚕️ 4. EPSRC Funded PhD Studentship: Vaginal probiotics for reproductive health: microbiome organ-chip 📅 Deadline: 6th January 2025
cpm.qmul.ac.uk
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...
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