The CRUK Convergence Science Centre is a partnership between ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ and The Institute of Cancer Research. In collaboration with our international partners we arrange a regular international seminar ‘Converging on Cancer’ on the topic of interdisciplinary cancer research. Our partners are:
- Technical University of Munich (TUM)
- Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
- Biotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC – University of Copenhagen)
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
In this series, we bring together speakers from across these institutions to present their research and how they use convergence science to answer cancer-related questions.
This seminar will have a brain cancer focus, particularly on engineering human brain models to understand disease.
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Thursday 3rd September 2026, 10-11am BST, 11-12pm CEST, 5-6pm SGTÌý
Speakers
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Talk details coming soon
Rebuilding Human Brain-Immune Interfaces: Engineering Living Models of Human Brain Development and Disease
Brain-resident immune cells actively sense, interpret and reshape their tissue environment, yet their most relevant functions remain difficult to access in conventional model systems. This talk will present our efforts to engineer human organoid and assembloid platforms that reconstruct brain–immune interfaces in living tissue. By integrating stem-cell biology, bioengineering, single-cell profiling and in vivo transplantation, we use these systems to uncover how human microglia acquire context-dependent functions across health, disease and tumor-associated environments, and how these functions might ultimately be reprogrammed for therapeutic benefit.
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Who can attend?
Researchers, students and anyone with an interest in convergence science relating to cancer researchÌýacross our partnered institutionsÌýare welcome to register:
- CRUK Convergence Science Centre
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- The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR)
- Technical University of Munich (TUM)
- Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
- Biotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC – University of Copenhagen)
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
- CRUK Cambridge Centre
- CRUK City of London Centre (Kings college, UCL, Barts Cancer Institute/Queen Mary University, Francis Crick)
- CRUK Manchester Centre
- CRUK Newcastle Centre
- CRUK Oxford Centre
- CRUK Scotland Centre (University of Edinburgh and University of Glasgow)
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Email icr-imperial-convergence.centre@imperial.ac.uk to receive the registration link and joining details.
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