Fiona publishes a new paper in the journal Bone.

In late February, Stefaan joined a team from Queen Mary University of London travelling to Malaysia to demonstrate our innovative research in medical technology, at an event organised by the British Council.

This year the Orthopaedic Research Society held its first Pride@ORS Network event in the main meeting programme, with Stefaan leading a panel discussion with three fantastic academics with diverse research and backgrounds.

Stefaan is invited to join the Royal Society Research Grants Committee for Physical Sciences for two years.

Prof Karl Lewis visits the Verbruggen Lab as part of the Cornell-QMUL Global Hubs Initiative. Karl shared the Lewis Lab’s ground-breaking intravital imaging of osteocytes, and gave a wonderful talk at the Royal Veterinary College for the Bloomsbury Centre for Skeletal Research.

Dr Stefaan Verbruggen was awarded the “Outstanding Contribution to Research Award” at the Annual Faculty of Science and Engineering Celebration for his research contributions in the development of organ-chip models.

Huge congratulations to Fiona, who has won the New Investigator Award at the 2024 Annual meeting of the Bone Research Society!

Natalia presents our organ-chip model of osteolytic bone metastases at EUROoCS 2024 in Milan!

Fiona presents recent developments in our patient-specific models of spinal lesions in multiple myeloma patients at the 2024 meeting of the European Society of Biomechanics in Edinburgh.

Stefaan gave the 2024 Otto Wolff Lecture on “Mechanics and Mechanobiology in Development” at the UCL-Great Ormond Street Hospital Institute of Child Health.

Stefaan paid a visit to Prof Karl Lewis’ lab at Cornell University to kick off their Cornell-QMUL Global Hubs collaboration. Lots of great discussions, and plans for new osteocyte mechanobiology projects!

Prof Christopher Hernandez and Prof Kelsey Collins paid a research visit to QMUL, and gave fantastic research presentations at the Bloomsbury Skeletal Research Centre. This also marked the kick-off of Chris and Stefaan’s EPSRC-funded “Microbiome-Bone Chip” project, which Natalia will be conducting at the CPM!

Enrico presented his undergraduate research project findings at the Posters in Parliament 2024, held in the Palace of Westminster.

Fiona and Stefaan presented the lab’s latest work on in silico modelling of vertebral metastatic lesions at the 2024 meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, in Long Beach, California.

Stefaan, and collaborator Dr Fiona Freeman, paid a research visit to the Collins, Hernandez and Alliston Labs at University of California, San Francisco. As well as giving talks and sparking new ideas, time was found for some sightseeing and margaritas!

Areli presented her work on an an organ-chip model of bone-immune crosstalk at the 2023 meeting of the BioMedEng Society. Mia also presented her work unpicking the molecular mechanisms behind preterm births.

Fiona presented at a joint meeting of the Bone Research Society and the European Calcified Tissue Society 2023, in Liverpool.

Fiona presented preliminary findings on the effect of multiple myeloma on vertebral strength at the 2022 European Solid Mechanics Conference in Galway!