Dr Georgina Goss

I completed my masters at King’s College London where I worked in Dr Tamir Rashid’s lab maintaining and differentiating clinical grade IPSC into hepatocytes using 2D and various 3D culture models to enhance their functionality. This project was particularly exciting for me due to its translational aim to create functional hepatocyte-like cells which could be transplanted into patients with liver failure. I then perused my PhD with Professor Fiona Watt in the Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine where I explored the lineage relationship between specific fibroblast and pericyte populations within skin development and several models of skin repair. I am now joining the Spagnoli Lab as a postdoc to investigate mesenchyme heterogeneity and how this affects pancreas development to create an accurate ex-vivo pancreatic niche.