CMM Spotlight Series: Dr Asme Boussahel
As part of our CMM Spotlight Series, PhD students' Dora Bonini and Michaela Gregorova interview Dr Asme Boussahel - a Daphne Jackson Research Fellow in CMM.
News in 2022
Patient-specific cancer tumours replicated in 3D bioprinting advance
Bowel cancer patients could in future benefit from a new 3D bioprinting technology which would use their own cells to replicate the complex cellular environment of solid tumours in 3D models. The University of Bristol-led advance, published in Biofabrication, would allow clinicians to treat the models, known as spheroids, with chemotherapy drugs and radiation to help them understand an individual patient’s resistance to therapies.
P53 protein plays a key role in tissue repair, study finds
New research led by the University of Bristol has found the protein p53 plays a key role in epithelial migration and tissue repair. The findings could improve our understanding of the processes used by cells to repair tissues, and be used to identify interventions that could accelerate and improve wound repair.