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Modelling Lung Fibrosis in Human Alveolar Organoids as a Translational Platform for Drug Discovery

Alveolar organoid image courtesy of Dr Amany Ammar (UCL Respiratory)
Professor Rachel C Chambers (UCL), Dr Manuela Platé (UCL), Dr Sarah Hopkins (GlaxoSmithKline)

Investigating Audiovisual Integration in Clinical Mouse Models

Image to illustrate Investigating Audiovisual Integration in Clinical Mouse Models
Dr Philip Coen (UCL), Gonçalo Lopes, (NeuroGEARS) and Professor Caswell Barry (UCL)

Intravital and spatial proteomic assessment of the rescue of inherited retinal degeneration by oral small molecule corrector therapy

Intravital and spatial proteomic assessment of the rescue of inherited retinal degeneration by oral small molecule corrector therapy
Dr Colin Chu (UCL and Moorfields Eye Hospital), Professor Mike Cheetham (UCL), and Dr Matthew Albert (Octant Bio)

Enhancing data sharing to support the health and wellbeing of children and families in poor housing conditions: a mixed methods PhD

Photo of the UCL Birkbeck MRC DTP logo
Jessica Sheringham (UCL), Marcella Ucci (UCL) and Dr Megan Stanley (Portsmouth City Council)

Synthetically lethal adoptive T cell therapy

CAT T cell synthetic lethality
Dr Martin Pule (Cancer Institute, UCL), Dr Claire Roddie (Cancer Institute, UCL) and James Sillibourne (Autolus Limited)