By LifETIME CDT Student: Emma Kelly (University of Glasgow) Did you know bone tissue is the second most transplanted tissue worldwide? We use bone transplants, called bone grafts, to treat various types of damage to bones such as fractures that won’t heal, to replace part of a bone that was surgically removed and skeletal abnormalities. However, …
By Emma Lardner (She/Her) (lifETIME CDT Administrator for Birmingham and Operations Manager of the Healthcare Technologies Institute, University of Birmingham) Our annual Student Day event took place on Tuesday 27th September 2022 at the Edgbaston Park Hotel and Conference Centre, Birmingham. The event invited Students, Supervisors, Management committee members, Industry partners and Steering Board members …
By LifETIME CDT Student: Elaine Duncan (University of Glasgow) In a 2008 episode of Doctor Who, the 10th Doctor (David Tennant) and his new companion Donna (Catherine Tate) saved the world from an alien diet pill. This pill caused a person’s fat to literally jump out of their body, forming small white creatures called Adipose (Figure …
By Emma Lardner (She/Her) (lifETIME CDT Administrator for Birmingham and Operations Manager of the Healthcare Technologies Institute, University of Birmingham) Following delays due to COVID-19, our 2019, 2020 & 2021 cohorts visited Coniston in the Lake District for our Annual Lake District Retreat in September. The purpose of this retreat was to deliver elements of …
By Emma Lardner (She/Her) (lifETIME CDT Administrator for Birmingham and Operations Manager of the Healthcare Technologies Institute, University of Birmingham) On Wednesday 21st September 2022, our lifETIME CDT Students took part in a challenge to raise money for DEBRA UK at our annual Lake District retreat. The challenge began by splitting our students into small …
By LifETIME CDT Student: Amaziah Alipio (University of Birmingham) Deaths from chronic and advanced liver disease such as liver cirrhosis and cancer accounts for over 2.4% of total deaths globally in 2017. The only effective therapy for chronic liver diseases is liver transplantation, however, the lack of available donor organs is a critical limitation in therapy. …