Wednesday 27 November 2024 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre - Lecture Theatre, Puddicombe Way, Cambridge CB2 0AW
About
Human stem cell models of cardiovascular disease: Looking towards the future
Prof. Christine Mummery, Professor of Developmental Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Christine Mummery is Professor of Developmental Biology at Leiden University Medical Center. Following a PhD in Biophysics, she moved to the Hubrecht Institute to study ion channels and later, cardiovascular diseases using pluripotent stem cells from patients, developing organ-on-chip models. This has centred on safety pharmacology to predict toxic effects of drugs on the human heart and capturing cardiac and vascular disease phenotypes including identifying individual vulnerability and drug sensitivity. She was president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (2020-2021) and co-founded the European Organ-on-Chip Society. She is also a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science. In 2021, she was awarded the Lefoulon Delalande Prize jointly with Gordon Keller. She is currently on, or chairs, advisory boards of Sartorius AG (Germany), HeartBeatBio (Austria), Mogrify UK, Hubrecht Institute, Founding (now Associate) Editor of the ISSCR journal Stem Cell Reports, Ammodo, Gairdner Foundation, among others.
Host: Dr. Richard Tyser
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