Principal Investigator: Dr Patrizia Camelliti, University of Surrey
With joint CRUK-NC3Rs funding, Dr David Fernandez Antoran’s 3D epithelioid culture model has been adopted by multiple labs globally, replacing animal use in different areas of oncology research, including oesophageal, tracheal, skin, ovarian and bladder cancer, as well as in radiotherapy studies and tissue regeneration research.
Over the last fourteen years, Dr Meri Huch has built a career developing organoids to study human organs in health and disease. This includes developing the first human liver organoids for preclinical research, most notably enabling liver cancer to be studied in vitro.