RAFT’s Dr Anna Wilson will be attending the annual meeting of the International Federation for Adipose Therapeutics & Science (IFATS) in New York City from the 21-14 November. Much of the conference will be dedicated to enriched fat grafting, bone regeneration and wound healing – all projects that RAFT is working on. Anna’s speciality at […]
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One of my favourite comedy films is the ‘Some like it hot’. In the very last scene, Jack Lemmon’s character – Jerry – who has been masquerading as a woman to escape some 1920s gangsters, is explaining to Joe E Brown character -Osgood Fielding III – why he can’t marry him. As each excuse is
I was reading an article in Management Today entitled “How to be a better boss”. As a boss, I am constantly striving to be the best boss I can be and am always learning from others. According to Management Today, one of the hallmarks of a good manager is the capacity to let go –
As you can imagine, I’ve been to a lot of weddings in my life. Small weddings, large weddings, weddings for second marriages (and third) – weddings in the UK and weddings abroad. One of the things that I have become good at over the years is being able to predict at a wedding – with
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For those of you old enough to remember the 1985 film – The Jewel of the Nile – you may remember the film’s theme song “When the going gets tough, the tough get going” which became a number 1 hit for singer, Billy Ocean Interestingly whilst the film has probably been forgotten or is unknown
It had been a week since I had submitted my first year PhD report and it was time for me to present and defend the work in front of my peers and colleagues, writes PhD student Vaibhav Sharma. I was asked to give a 20 minute presentation at University College London to the biochemical engineering
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Whether or not to undergo reconstructive surgery following breast cancer is an intensely personal decision, and it involves more than body image, reports the US St Louis Post-Dispatch. A little research at the beginning can help to ease possible regrets later on. Actress Angelina Jolie recently put the subject in the foreground when she went
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Conferences play a major role in the development of a scientist’s career, writes Vaibhav Sharma, RAFT researcher and UCL PhD student. They might sound tedious and boring but at the end of the day their importance cannot be denied. I was fortunate enough to attend the Tissue & Cell Engineering Society (TCES) 2013 conference at
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