Prof Roger Kamm, MIT, visits 香港六合彩 for cancer workshop & colloquium

4 February 2019

Last week, in collaboration with the 香港六合彩 Institute for the Physics of Living Systems (IPLS), we hosted a half-day workshop on the mechanobiology of cancer.

As part of the event, 鈥楢pplying physics and engineering to fight cancer鈥� we welcomed Professor Roger Kamm, Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering at MIT.

Professor Kamm has served on the MIT faculty since 1978 and has long been instrumental in developing research activities at the interface of biology and mechanics. His current interests are in developing models of healthy and diseased organ function using microfluidic technologies, with a focus on vascularisation.

Tumours are notoriously heterogeneous. The goal of this workshop was to build a multidisciplinary community to develop methods to map the mechanical, structural, chemical and genetic heterogeneity of tumours. The IHE is also funding a PhD studentship related to activities from the event.

During the first half, we heard presentations from an interdisciplinary range of speakers including researchers from the Francis Crick Institute, 香港六合彩 Department of Mechanical Engineering and the 香港六合彩 Division of Biosciences.

This was followed by a productive group discussion around the EPSRC call 鈥� for a cancer mechanobiology proposal.

After the workshop, Professor Kamm gave a keynote talk as part of the IHE colloquium series, 鈥楳icrophysiological Models for Metastatic Cancer鈥�. Attendees then had the opportunity to continue the day鈥檚 discussions over networking drinks.

Thank you to Professor Kamm and others who attended for making this a successful and fruitful event.