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Abstract Submission Now OPEN!
Submission Deadline: 16th November 2022

It is our great pleasure to announce that abstract submissions are now being accepted for the TERMIS EU 2023 meeting, which will be held in Manchester, UK from the 28th to 31st March 2023.   Submit here: https://eu2023.termis.org/call-for-abstracts/ TERMIS EU 2023 will revolve around the topic “Broadening the Targets and Applications for Regenerative Medicine”. It will reflect state-of-the-art international science including the latest breakthroughs across a broad range of topics, including biomaterials, biofabrication and bioprinting, 3D culture systems, tissue development, organoids, disease models, organ-on-a-chip, gene therapies and biologics, cell biology including stem cells, mechanobiology, advanced imaging, computational models, clinical and commercial translation and many more.    Ensure you submit by the deadline to avoid missing out on the opportunity to attend this exciting meeting. Abstract Submission Deadline: 16th November 2022   Browse Our Abstract Topics We have put together an extensive list of abstract topics for TERMIS EU 2023, covering many different aspects of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Take the time to look through and choose the one that best fits your specific area of research.

Understanding cellular interactions in a 3D bioprinted model of the glomerulus

For more information see here: https://cpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.ac.uk/dist/f/373/files/2022/10/swbio-2023-project-47.pdf

Supervisory team:
Main supervisor: Dr James Armstrong (University of Bristol)
Second supervisor: Prof Gavin Welsh (University of Bristol)
Dr Liliang Ouyang (Tsinghua University, China), Dr Julia Sero (University of Bath)

June’s annual TCES conference in Birmingham brought together the community from around the UK and beyond. Alicia El Haj and her team were the perfect hosts for a successful conference of brilliant scientific talks and a full and fun-packed social programme at Birmingham Botanical Gardens!

Special congratulations to our prize winners (pictured below), including Melissa Rayner from UCL, who was awarded this year’s Robert Brown Early Stage Investigator Award.

We look forward to the next time!!

We are delighted to announce that TCES’ 2019 Robert Brown Awardee, Jenny Ashworth has won a University of Nottingham Anne McLaren Research Fellowship. The goal of the Robert Brown Award is to recognise promise and foster the development of the next generation of tissue and cell engineering scientists. In support of this aim all awardees are offered mentorship to help set career goals, get honest and constructive feedback and build confidence. Jenny saw the Robert Brown award as being instrumental in helping her achieve this next stage of her career. 

“I am hugely grateful to TCES for their support in helping me obtain an Anne McLaren fellowship from the University of Nottingham. In this fellowship, I will be working on biomaterial models of fibrosis, creating tissue-realistic in vitro models that can be tailored to match different disease states. By recreating the different collagen architectures found within each tissue, I plan to develop more patient-relevant environments for drug discovery. I would like to thank TCES for their support through the Robert Brown award, which was a huge help to me in demonstrating my research independence, and would also like to thank Dr Jon Dawson for his mentorship and advice through the fellowship application process.”

Doctoral College MatureTissue – Looking for applicants

Please see the links (https://dc-mature-tissue.at, https://jobs.tuwien.ac.at/Register/171605) for an FWF-funded Doctoral College MatureTissue, where we are currently looking for applications.

Thank you and Kind Regards,

Philipp

Univ.Prof. DI Dr. Philipp J. Thurner
Professor of Biomechanics

Institute of Lightweight Design and Structural Biomechanics
TU Wien
Gumpendorfer Str. 7
A-1060 Vienna, Austria

e-mail: pthurner@ilsb.tuwien.ac.at
phone: +43 (0)1 58801 31723
fax: +43 (0)1 58801 – 317 99

TCES will be holding an in-person meeting this hear at the University of Birmingham on June 14th and 15th. We hope you all can join us to present your research!

Information about the conference can be found on the dedicated site. Please note that the abstract submission deadline is 29th April.

The conference this year is being organised by the University of Birmingham and Prof Alicia El Haj is chair of the organising committee.

There will be an exciting programme of invited speakers. The CDT joint conference will be run in parallel with the TCEs this year alongside some workshops in mechano-TE and an Anglo-Irish networking session.

Do put the dates in the diary and we hope to see you in June !

How to become a member of TCES

UK & IRE webinar on animal model refinement and welfare

Tuesday 7th December, 2 – 4.30 pm.Please see this link for information and to register for this event

Royce Biomedical Materials Showcase: Biofabrication and 3D Printing

Tuesday 30 November

The Royce Institute is hosting a free online event designed to support researchers to learn more about Royce national facilities in Biofabrication and 3D Printing, as well as to find out more about opportunities for access and collaboration. Further details can be found at the link below.

Sign up for this event on Eventbrite by clicking here.

Please see information below on the upcoming IBP Network Webinar:

IBP Network Webinar: MicroCT imaging techniques and mechanobiology of cartilage and joint
Measurement of mechanobiological control directly affects our capacity to innovate functional solutions in biomedical engineering and the biosciences. Musculoskeletal joints are constantly re-modelling under day-to-day loads, and suffer from natural ageing and degeneration, injury, or breakdown, therefore an approach for elucidating global responses to specific stimulation is warranted. In this webinar, Dr Kathryn Stok will present new multiscale approaches for exploring cartilage and joint health using image-guided mechanics.

Speaker: Dr Kathryn Stok, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Melbourne
When: 10:00 to 11:00 (GMT), 21:00 to 22:00 (AEDT) on 8 December 2021
Where: Zoom – Register on Eventbrite