When: Thursday, November 28, 2024, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PMWhere: Blizard Insitute, 4 Newark Street, E1 2AT, Whitechapel
Speaker: Dr Tim Hopkins is a researcher at Queen Mary University of London. He did his un
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‘Organ-on-a-chip’ is an innovative, rapidly growing technology which combines biology and engineering to create models (laboratory-based copies) of human tissues. Within these ‘organ-chips’, human cells are grown in small chambers and channels that allow for the complex biological, biochemical and biomechanical environments found in the human body to be recreated. These models can then be used to understand how tissues develop, how they function, how they are affected by disease and how they respond to treatments.
Tim Hopkins uses organ-on-a-chip technology to develop miniature, lab-based versions of human tissues, but can this help fight disease?