Name: Inside the Body: Engineering Life, Repair, and Innovation
Start: 2026-05-19T19:00:00
End: 2026-05-19T21:00:00
Location: The Ol' 55 Bar

From the inner workings of cells to modern medical technologies, this event explores how science is transforming our understanding and treatment of the human body. From cells (a building block of life) to tissue engineering for repairing biological structures, we will learn about bone treatments and how medical devices are tested and de-risked before reaching patients.

Journey to the centre of the cell

Santiago Camblor-Perujo (Postdoctoral Researcher)

Each of us is made of ~30 trillion cells. What keeps the chaos within them organised? Journey inside a cell to discover its hidden architecture and meet the centrosome, a tiny hub at its core.

When Crosslinking Controls Hydrogels

Azadeh Shahroodi (PhD Student)

Alginate hydrogel properties are dominated by crosslinking density, revealing a trade-off between mechanical stiffness and cell viability across different formulations.

Protecting Bone Health in Type 2 Diabetes

Cynthia Coleman (Associate Professor)

Type 2 diabetes causes the sugar level in the blood to rise. Some people with type 2 diabetes experience changes in their bones, making the bone prone to fracturing. My work identifies new molecular treatments to protect those bones.

Under the Hood: How Engineering Fixes a Broken Heart

Liam Morris (Senior Lecturer)

We often think of the heart as a symbol of love, but to an engineer, it’s a complex pump with many pipes that sometimes fail. By building “stunt doubles” of human organs, we can recreate medical emergencies, like heart attacks and strokes right in the lab. Come and discover how my research road tests medical devices to the limit to make surgery safer for everyone

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