This page celebrates the achievements and activities of the Armstrong Group. For publications please see here.
December 2025 – Celebrating Sammy Shorthouse passing his PhD viva with his thesis “Morphometric Analysis and Prediction of 3D Cell Models”.
October 2025 – Leaving dinner to celebrate Farnaz Ghorbani’s time in the group.
October 2025 – James visiting Limerick and Galway for invited talks hosted by Dr Eoghan Cunnane and Dr Andrew Daly.
September 2025 – Celebrating Patrick Buchanan and Mia Massaad completing their MRes projects on 3D printing for cardiovascular grafts and bone tissue engineering, respectively.
August 2025 – Jie Huang and Amanda Gong completing their STEM projects in the group on acoustic cell patterning.
July 2025 – James attending the GRC Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering in Barcelona
July 2025 – Hosting Dr Andrew Daly (Galway) for a talk on “Bioprinting Human Heart Models: From Stem Cells to Functional Tissues“
June 2025 – Chairing the Tissue & Cell Engineering Society (TCES) Annual Conference 2025 in Bristol
April 2025 – Ice cream social!
February 2025 – Lunar New Year!
January 2025 – Hosting Prof Mikhail Shapiro (Caltech) for a talk on “Talking to Cells: Biomolecular Ultrasound for Non-Invasive Imaging and Control of Cellular Function“
December 2024 – Christmas Party!
September 2024 – James joins a University of Bristol delegation visiting the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru.
August 2024 – Crazy golf leaving do for Elliot Johnson-Hall, Kaoutar Amery, and Samia Essaboui, who all worked on new collagen-based biomaterials for printing and tissue regeneration.
April 2024 – Camila Tovani giving an invited talk at the British Society for Matrix Biology, with Olivia Johnson-Hall and Olivia Camilleri also presenting a poster
March 2024 – James giving an invited talk at the 6th International Conference on Additive Manufacturing and Biomanufacturing and undertaking a visit to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
March 2024 – James and Zhipeng Deng visiting the laboratories of Prof. Liliang Ouyang at Tsinghua University (Beijing).
February 2024 – Hosting Prof. Liliang Ouyang (Tsinghua University) for a talk on “Enabling Bioinks and Bioprinting for 3D Cell Culture and Tissue Engineering“
January 2024 – Camila Tovani leaving the Armstrong Group to take up a permanent academic position at Sorbonne University. Congratulations Camila!!
December 2023 – Christmas Party!
November 2023 – Impulsonics launching at Future Space Bristol
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November 2023 – James and Norah-Jane Prendergast co-hosting the GW4 Innovations in Brain Tissue Engineering conference at the University of Bristol. Congratulations to Norah-Jane for winning the poster prize!
November 2023 – Welcoming new group members with pizza and drinks at the Robin Hood
October 2023 – James, Martha Lavelle, and Aya Elghajiji visiting Prof. Peer Fischer and Dr Daniela Duarte Campos in Heidelberg, and attending the EMBL Organoids: Modelling Organ Development and Disease in 3D
September 2023 – Hosting the TCESNet Summer School: Patterning Cells with Sound, in which nine researchers from around Europe visited to learn about acoustic cell patterning.
August 2023 – Norah-Jane Prendergast and Farnaz Ghorbani undertaking a three-week placement in Tsinghua University (Beijing) working in the laboratory of Prof. Liliang Ouyang!
June 2023 – Zhipeng Deng reaching the finals of the University of Bristol Three Minute Thesis competition with her excellent presentation “Injectable Gels: Healing Broken Bones from the Inside Out“
June 2023 – Celebrating Camila Tovani securing a permanent academic position at Sorbonne University!
December 2022 – Christmas Party!
January 2023 – Lunar New Year!
March 2022 – James receiving his President’s Award and Medal for Excellence in Education at the Royal Albert Hall, London, for his exemplary pastoral care of PhD students.