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Stefaan Verbruggen @docbruggsbunny.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Congratulations to the newly minted Dr Fiona Gibson! 🥳🥳🥳 Fiona has been a fantastic student, consistenly delivering against many challenges throughout her PhD journey, an absolute gem of a first PhD student that I was very lucky to find!

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Stefaan Verbruggen @docbruggsbunny.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Just back from a fantastic meeting with the Prof Chris Hernandez lab @UCSF. This @EPSRC project applied organ-chips to investigate the gut-bone axis, with Dr Natalia Munoz Castro putting in lots of hard hours in the lab. Thanks to Chris and Prof @kelseyhcollins.bsky.social for fabulous hosting!

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Stefaan Verbruggen @docbruggsbunny.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

🚨 PhD Studentship 🚨 Interested in organoid and organ-chip models of cancer? 🧫 Join us to explore new treatments for osteosarcoma! Funded by Willberry Wonder Pony Charity, join us at @qmul.ac.uk, alongside Dr Lucia Cottone & Prof @fionafreeman.bsky.social! Details: www.theverbruggenlab.com/jobs

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Jobs & Opportunities — The Verbruggen Lab

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Stefaan Verbruggen @docbruggsbunny.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Huge #ProudPI moment - congratulations to Fiona Gibson on her first first-author paper! A fun collaboration with lots of colleagues at @insigneoinstitute.bsky.social, Fiona has explored the effects of prostate cancer on the strength of patients' vertebrae. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Altered vertebral biomechanical properties in prostate cancer patients following androgen deprivation therapy

Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for localised and metastatic prostate cancer (PCa) is known to improve survival in patients but has been associated…

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Hoey Lab @hoeylab.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

🚀 Exciting PhD / Postdoc Opportunities in Biomedical Engineering/Immunology/Bone at Trinity College Dublin🚀 More information on the project and positions can be found at hoeylab.com/vacancies 🌟 Feel free to share this post with your network #PhD #Postdoc #JobOpportunity #Hiring

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Stefaan Verbruggen @docbruggsbunny.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

An early Christmas gift to have @karljlewis.bsky.social visit us to round out our @cornelluniversity.bsky.social - @qmul.ac.uk Global Hub collaboration! Exciting early data and much more osteocyte mechanobiology fun to come!

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gentlemanlab.bsky.social @gentlemanlab.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

📢We're recruiting! Fully funded PhD studentship starting Oct 2025. Interested in #mechanobiology #CancerResearch #Immunology? Awesome project w/ @leonerossetti.bsky.social & @koechllab.bsky.social studying the impact of tissue mechanics on T-cells 👩‍🔬 kcl.ac.uk/dentistry/re.... Deadline 19 Jan

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kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter in a messy room .

ALT: kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter in a messy room .

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Orthopaedic Research Society @orssociety.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) has officially joined BlueSky! 🦋 We are here to connect, share, and inspire through cutting-edge #orthopaedic research and innovations. Follow us to stay updated on events, deadlines, and insights from your global #orthocommunity.

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QMUL School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science @qmuleecs.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

As we join the platform, we thought it would be quite fitting to share one of the first papers on Bluesky, authored by @qmul.ac.uk. Read it here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... @ignactro.bsky.social

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Stefaan Verbruggen @docbruggsbunny.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Comical flasks of wine at the Mechanobiology Shaping Life meeting in London! @sebcallens.bsky.social

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Stefaan Verbruggen @docbruggsbunny.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

🚨 FIVE Exciting PhD Opportunities to Join Our Team at @qmul.ac.uk! 🚨

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Stefaan Verbruggen @docbruggsbunny.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Such an exciting line-up of expert speakers, very much looking forward to it!

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Check out our database of 47 POSTDOCTORAL fellowships in cancer/oncology. For each fellowship, we provide a brief description, link to opportunity, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship). Download this database here (Excel file): research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-... Good luck!

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