Carlotta Peticone, a PhD student in Ivan Wall’s lab, has been awarded a UCL Advances PhD Enterprise Scholarship. The funding, worth £4000, enables her to undertake a commercial evaluation of her research. Carlotta’s PhD project is entitled ‘Phosphate Bioactive Glass Microcarriers for the Production of Vascularized Tissue Engineered Micro-Units for Bone Regeneration’ and focuses on the use of bioactive phosphate glass for bone regeneration.
Melanie Georgiou, a PDRA in Ivan Wall's lab, won the early career speaker prize for Talk title: "Commercial scale manufacture of adult allogeneic cell therapy for regenerative medicine" at the 18th Bioprocess Research Industries Club Dissemination event, held in Manchester on 21-22 October.
Olfactory ensheathing cells have significant promise as a therapy for spinal cord injury but cells isolated from biopsies are extremely hard to grow in the lab and cell quality is highly variable. Working with ReNeuron, we are creating cell lines that will overcome significant bioprocessing barriers. This prize is a wonderful recognition of the efforts by the team to generate a stable cell line for spinal cord injury. |