Stefaan gave the 2024 Otto Wolff Lecture on “Mechanics and Mechanobiology in Development” at the UCL-Great Ormond Street Hospital Institute of Child Health.

Stefaan paid a visit to Prof Karl Lewis’ lab at Cornell University to kick off their Cornell-QMUL Global Hubs collaboration. Lots of great discussions, and plans for new osteocyte mechanobiology projects!

Prof Christopher Hernandez and Prof Kelsey Collins paid a research visit to QMUL, and gave fantastic research presentations at the Bloomsbury Skeletal Research Centre. This also marked the kick-off of Chris and Stefaan’s EPSRC-funded “Microbiome-Bone Chip” project, which Natalia will be conducting at the CPM!

Enrico presented his undergraduate research project findings at the Posters in Parliament 2024, held in the Palace of Westminster.

Fiona and Stefaan presented the lab’s latest work on in silico modelling of vertebral metastatic lesions at the 2024 meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, in Long Beach, California.

Stefaan, and collaborator Dr Fiona Freeman, paid a research visit to the Collins, Hernandez and Alliston Labs at University of California, San Francisco. As well as giving talks and sparking new ideas, time was found for some sightseeing and margaritas!

Areli presented her work on an an organ-chip model of bone-immune crosstalk at the 2023 meeting of the BioMedEng Society. Mia also presented her work unpicking the molecular mechanisms behind preterm births.

Fiona presented at a joint meeting of the Bone Research Society and the European Calcified Tissue Society 2023, in Liverpool.

Fiona presented preliminary findings on the effect of multiple myeloma on vertebral strength at the 2022 European Solid Mechanics Conference in Galway!