Dr Tim Hopkins gave an excellent presentation of some of the work in the Knight group, developing organ-chip models of bone, cartilage and synovium. The presentation was part of a workshop held by the Centre for Predictive in vitro Models to showcase the variety of organ-chip and other in vitro models being developed across Queen Mary University of London. Dr Hopkins holds a Versus Arthritis Research Fellowship which aims to develop autologous organ-chip models of cartilage-synovium interaction to predict which patients will respond best to treatments for osteoarthritis. Dr Hopkins is currently working on a related NC3Rs project to develop an organ-chip model of the human growth plate (cartilage-bone interface).

Prof Knight also presented the work developing a breast cancer bone metastasis organ-chip model in collaboration with Dr Oliver Pearce, Dr Stefaan Verbruggen and Dr Joanne Nolan funded by CRUK and EPSRC.