The latest Precision Medicianes Conference at Imperial College took place on the 14th-15th July, 2016, and was dedicated to Engineering Solutions for Cancer. The CMBL group took a large part in proceedings, providing two talks and three posters for the conference. Particular congratulations to Antonios for winning the Best Poster Award.

Invited talk: Armando del Rio Hernandez, Switching off the forces that drive pancreatic cancer

Talk: Antonios Chronopoulos, Exosonic - a microfluidic device for purification and detection of tumour exosomes for early detection of cancer

Poster presentations:

Antonios Chronopoulos, Exosonic - a microfluidic device for purification and detection of tumour exosomes for early detection of cancer, Winner - Best Poster Award

Dariusz Lachowski, Assaying the rigidity guided migration of Human Tumour Stromal Myofibroblasts (TSM) on polyacrylamide substrates mimicking healthy and fibrotic tissue transition boundary

Alistair Rice, Traction force microscopy with elastic pillars for quantification of forces during cell apoptosis

Cellular and Molecular Biomechanics Laboratory