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SUMMARY:Converging on Cancer: International Seminar Series – Dr Romeo Rac
 z (Imperial) Prof Simon Schäfer (TUM)
DESCRIPTION:The CRUK Convergence Science Centre is a partnership between Im
 perial College London and The Institute of Cancer Research. In collaborati
 on with our international partners we arrange a regular international semi
 nar ‘Converging on Cancer’ on the topic of interdisciplinary cancer re
 search. Our partners are:\n\nTechnical University of Munich (TUM)\nNanyang
  Technological University (NTU)\nBiotech Research and Innovation Centre (B
 RIC – University of Copenhagen)\nÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Laus
 anne (EPFL).\n\n\nIn 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.\nThis seminar will have a brai
 n cancer focus\, particularly on engineering human brain models to underst
 and disease.\n \nThursday 3rd September 2026\, 10-11am BST\, 11-12pm CEST
 \, 5-6pm SGT \n\nSpeakers\n \n\nDr Romeo Racz (Imperial)\n\nTalk details
  coming soon\nProf Simon Schäfer (TUM)\nRebuilding Human Brain-Immune Int
 erfaces: Engineering Living Models of Human Brain Development and Disease\
 nBrain-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 us
 e these systems to uncover how human microglia acquire context-dependent f
 unctions across health\, disease and tumor-associated environments\, and h
 ow these functions might ultimately be reprogrammed for therapeutic benefi
 t.\n\n \n\nWho can attend?\nResearchers\, students and anyone with an int
 erest in convergence science relating to cancer research across our partn
 ered institutions are welcome to register:\n\nCRUK Convergence Science Ce
 ntre\nImperial College London\nThe Institute of Cancer Research (ICR)\nTec
 hnical University of Munich (TUM)\nNanyang Technological University (NTU)\
 nBiotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC – University of Copenhagen
 )\nÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)\nCRUK Cambridge Cent
 re\nCRUK City of London Centre (Kings college\, UCL\, Barts Cancer Institu
 te/Queen Mary University\, Francis Crick)\nCRUK Manchester Centre\nCRUK Ne
 wcastle Centre\nCRUK Oxford Centre\nCRUK Scotland Centre (University of Ed
 inburgh and University of Glasgow)\n\n \nEmail icr-imperial-convergence.c
 entre@imperial.ac.uk to receive the registration link and joining details.
 \n 
URL:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/211764/converging-on-cancer-internati
 onal-seminar-series-dr-romeo-racz-imperial-prof-simon-schafer-tum/
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