Congratulations to Anil Ramlogan who successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Stem Cell Expansion and Bioreactor Development” on 7th December 2010. He was supervised by Prof. Joost de Bruijn. During his time at Queen Mary, Anil has served as student ambassador for the school and represented the college at the Biotechnology Young Entrepreneurs Scheme and the highly prestigious KPMG International Case Study Competition. In addition to his role as laboratory manager, he has assisted in the supervision and mentoring of undergraduate research project groups. His collaboration with Dr. Catherine Gardner and Prof. Chris Lawn involving the use of particle imaging velocimetry to study actual, rather than simulated, shear stress in spinner flask bioreactor systems was short-listed at the 2010 IChemE awards for innovation and excellence in the bioprocess category and appeared in the November issue of “tce” (The Chemical Engineer) magazine. Anil will shortly be taking up a position in consultancy at PricewaterhouseCoopers.