Jessica Pinheiro de Lucena-Thomas
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Jessica Pinheiro de Lucena-Thomas16/08/2019
Urban Solutions for Developing Cities and Their Slums
Jessica Pinheiro de Lucena-Thomas is a second-year PhD student at the CSCT. Her PhD focuses on developing a bioreactor for large-scale expansion of organoids, specifically for drug testing in the pharmaceutical industry. However, for her internship she chose to spend...
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Jessica Pinheiro de Lucena-Thomas20/03/2019
The New Future of Food
My name is Jessica Pinheiro de Lucena-Thomas and I am a Marie Curie FIRE PhD Fellow at the University of Bath. I am in my second year at the CSCT working towards my PhD on “Organoid Expansion Bioreactor Development” with...
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Jessica Pinheiro de Lucena-Thomas14/08/2018
What I learned about organoids from two recent conferences
The aim of my PhD is to design a bioreactor to produce miniature tumours (organoids) in large scales for drug testing. Organoids are better than the more conventional 2D models for testing drugs because they closely mimic the 3D structure...
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Jessica Pinheiro de Lucena-Thomas20/03/2019
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My name is Jessica Pinheiro de Lucena-Thomas and I am a Marie Curie FIRE PhD Fellow at the University of Bath. I am in my second year at the CSCT working towards my PhD on “Organoid Expansion Bioreactor Development” with...
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Jessica Pinheiro de Lucena-Thomas14/08/2018
What I learned about organoids from two recent conferences
The aim of my PhD is to design a bioreactor to produce miniature tumours (organoids) in large scales for drug testing. Organoids are better than the more conventional 2D models for testing drugs because they closely mimic the 3D structure...