Scientists from the Institute of Genetic Medicine will host a series of exciting “Meet the Scientist” events at the world famous Body Worlds Vital exhibition at Centre for Life this autumn. We will be at the exhibition every weekend in September, showcasing our research and explaining how it fits within a bigger picture of human health and development using the exhibits and our own research samples to illustrate what we do at the Institute. A brief agenda is shown below:

6th September – mitochondrial diseases

7th September – heart function and disease

13th September – cartilage and bone development, ageing and disease

14th September – hearing and vision

20th September – skeletal muscle function and disease

21st September – skeletal muscle disease patient referral systems and large research consortiums

27th September – Human Developmental Biology Resource

28th September – kidney function and disease

Thank you all for volunteering to take part! If you haven’t contacted us yet, but you would like to take part in this exciting project, please email us at: IGMengagement@ncl.ac.uk. Thank you!

On 20th November we hosted a “Biomedicine” hands-on workshop at the STEM careers day at the Gateshead College. The workshop generated a lot of interest in the research at the IGM and was very well received. For details of the event and how to get involved in the future please visit here.