Dr Stefaan Verbruggen
BEng, PhD, FHEA
Research Group News
March 2024 | ||
Queen Mary one of five top universities forming a new collaborative research centre for preterm birth research21 March 2024The Tommy’s National Centre for Preterm Birth Research brings together leading researchers from Queen Mary with colleagues from Imperial College, University College, King's College, and the University of Leeds. An estimated 53,000 babies born are born preterm in the UK every year. This is higher than the average … [more] | ||
February 2024 | ||
Students from the Centre for Undergraduate Research present at the Posters in Parliament event28 February 2024Two highly talented undergraduate students engaged in research activities at the Queen Mary Centre of Undergraduate Research have presented their research findings at the prestigious Posters in Parliament event. This conference offers a platform for outstanding scholars in the UK to share their insights with a wider audience and highlights … [more] | ||
Wellcome awards £1.8M funding to prevent preterm birth1 February 2024Climate change impact award Led by Prof Andrew Prendergast who is the Director of the Zvitambo Institute for Maternal and Child Health Research in Zimbabwe, the team have established clinical trials to promote healthy birth and growth. Funding by the Wellcome Climate Impact Award will support a transdisciplinary team of … [more] | ||
November 2023 | ||
Researchers make discovery that could prevent the spread of breast and prostate cancer to bones16 November 2023Queen Mary researchers have helped to discover a new molecular mechanism in osteocyte cells, that explains how cancer hijacks bone cells in order to grow. A new paper published in Advanced Science outlines findings by Dr Stefaan Verbruggen, Lecturer in Medical Technology, and his research group. The interaction between bone … [more] | ||
September 2023 | ||
BioMedEng23 Conference Highlights the Pioneering Work of Queen Mary Bioengineering21 September 2023At the recently concluded BioMedEng23 conference, Queen Mary Bioengineering showcased its prowess and contributions to UK Biomedical Engineering. The two-day event, organised by The Association of Biomedical Engineers, Medical Engineers, and Bioengineers (BioMedEng Association), highlighted remarkable advances in and around the UK biomedical sector. Prof Karin Hing Awarded the Prestigious … [more] | ||
School celebrates student achievements at IMechE awards14 September 2023This week, six BEng/MEng Biomedical Engineering students were selected to present their final year projects at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) Healthcare Technologies Student and Early Career Awards. Queen Mary's representation included four poster presentations and two oral presentations, given by Saskia Hale, Lujain Musafir, Haipeng Liang, … [more] | ||
July 2023 | ||
Organ-chip research presented at Centre for Predictive in vitro Models Workshop18 July 2023Dr 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 … [more] | ||
June 2021 | ||
New organ-on-a-chip study demonstrates how physical exercise regulates bone metastasis in breast and prostate cancer17 June 2021Bioengineers at Queen Mary publish a new study in the journal Cancers which demonstrates the significant impact of physiological mechanical loading on bone metastasis in breast and prostate cancer. The paper describes a new organ-chip model of bone metastasis which incorporates cancer cells and bone cells in … [more] | ||
January 2021 | ||
New CRUK/EPSRC research grant: Organ-on-a-chip model to investigate breast cancer bone metastases12 January 2021A new research grant using organ-on-a-chip technology to understand breast cancer bone metastasis has started in Prof Martin Knight's bioengineering and mechanobiology research group. The multidisciplinary award is jointly funded by Cancer Research UK (CR UK) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The project will develop … [more] | ||
November 2020 | ||
EU Commission report on cancer mechanobiology research from Prof Knight's group at QMUL24 November 2020The EU Commission have published a report on some of the research into cancer mechanobiology taking place in the Bioengineering Division within School of Engineering and Materials Science at QMUL. The report entitled 'Mechanobiology of METAstatic and DORMant cancer cells in bone marrow lesions', describes research conducted by Dr Verbruggen … [more] |