Wellcome Early Career Award to pursue a tissue engineering project

30 August 2024

Congratulations to AMBER postdoctoral researcher Dr Josephine Wu on her Wellcome Early Career Researcher Award to pursue a tissue engineering project that could provide an exciting new approach to regenerative medicine. The research project is titled ‘Engineering functional tissues by spatiotemporal patterning: 3D bioprinting and optogenetics for directing the organization of cell spheroid building blocks (OPTO-BIOPRINTING)’

Dr Wu, a postdoctoral researcher at the AMBER Centre and part of AMBER PI Danny Kelly’s lab said: “I’m immensely grateful for the support of a Wellcome Trust Early Career Award. It represents an important stepping stone in my pathway to independence, and I’m excited to bring together two powerful technologies for patterning tissue complexity and see where it can take the field of tissue engineering.

“Previous funding support from a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship (ADMIRE COFUND hosted by AMBER) made this award possible, and I’d also like to acknowledge the continued support from friends, colleagues, mentors, and Trinity’s Research Development Office.”

The Wellcome Early Career Awards scheme provides funding for early-career researchers from any discipline who are ready to develop their research identity. Through innovative projects, they will deliver shifts in understanding related to human life, health and wellbeing. By the end of the award, they will be ready to lead their own independent research programme.

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