We had a lovely socially distanced evening at the”Ignite” installation at Gibside to celebrate (the end of) 2020 and for some Christmas cheer. Merry Christmas everyone!

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!

Sharing our industrial heritage with Suganya. We should all dress up more often! 🙂

Suganya is going back to Chennai next week (time flies when you’re having (oxidative stress research) fun), so we took advantage of a lovely autumn afternoon to show her the wonderful Northumberland countryside.

We said goodbye to Thais today. She has finished in the lab and has gone to Spain to write her PhD thesis. Good luck and happy writing!

Let’s hope the reviewers like Creld2 as much as we do!

You were all great, thank you for all the hard work! We hope you enjoyed your projects. Good luck with your future careers, keep in touch!

Pigs in blankets and Secret Santa 🙂

Merry Christmas everyone!