All posts by Katarzyna

Today we had the first meeting of our new Working Group

Events, Musculoskeletal news

We had a very enjoyable first meeting. Thank you very much to everyone for volunteering their time to work with us, it was great to meet you and we are looking forward to working with you over the next 3 years, developing outreach and educational materials and sharing our research journey.

If you are interested in participating but couldn’t attend today, the recording of the meeting is available to watch and you are more than welcome to joi us at our next session in June. If you’d like to watch the video or join the Working Group, please email katarzyna.pirog@ncl.ac.uk

Thank you.

An opportunity to join our new Working Group

Events, Musculoskeletal news

We are looking for members of the public who would like to be involved in a Working Group, and take part in lab meetings, provide a fresh perspective on the work performed in the laboratory, have an active voice in the decisions we take as to the direction of our research and help us deliver their teaching and public engagement activities related to musculoskeletal health and ageing that stem from our work.

For more details, please click here or email katarzyna.pirog@ncl.ac.uk

Thank you.

Our PhD advert is now live!

Musculoskeletal news, PhD studentships

To apply, please click: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/sources/ukeustudents/bi034.html

This interdisciplinary project combines the expertise of two supervisors (a cartilage biologist and a tissue engineer) to develop a bioprinted mechanically responsive tissue engineered model of cartilage and generate a transcriptomic and proteomic profile of healthy cartilage ageing.

For more details of the project, please check: https://nc3rs.org.uk/investigating-biomechanical-responses-healthy-and-diseases-ageing-cartilage-tissue-engineering.

Congratulations to Dr Thais de las Heras Ruiz!

Fun, Musculoskeletal news

Well done Thais! An online viva and a Zoom celebration for now, but we will have a proper one for your graduation for sure!

A big thank you to the examiners, Dr Emma Blain and Dr Ana Ferreira-Duarte, for conducting the viva. Thank you to JGW Patterson Foundation for funding this exciting project in tissue engineering of cartilage.

Congratulations from a very proud supervisor!

Join us at the ICCBH Virtual Forum on Bone Fragility Disorders in Children on 18-20th of November 2020

Conferences, Musculoskeletal news

The Virtual Forum, organised in association with ECTS, OIF and OIFE, will comprise invited lectures, meet the expert sessions, workshops, clinical case discussions, oral communications, poster discussions and networking sessions.

The aim is to present and discuss new research in investigative, diagnostic and therapeutic management of patients with bone fragility disorders and to foster the exchange of ideas and discussion of ongoing initiatives.

Kasia will be speaking on Thursday at 7pm, and talking about “Altered intracellular homeostasis in bone fragility”

Standard registration is €150 and reduced registration is €90. To register, please click here