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Structure: Presentation by speaker (~40 minutes) followed by a Q&A session (~20 minutes)
Speaker: Dr Shukry Habib, Principal Investigator, Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine, School of Basic & Medical Biosciences
Shukry James Habib is a Principal Investigator at the Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine at King’s College London. He leads a multidisciplinary research team at the intersection of stem cell biology, advanced imaging, biophysics and tissue engineering. Shukry pursued his undergraduate and Master degrees in Israel at the Technion and Tel-Aviv University (Prof. Abed Azem), respectively. He obtained his PhD from the lab of Prof. Walter Neupert at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich, Germany. He carried out postdoctoral research at Stanford University, California, USA in the lab of Prof. Roel Nusse (breakthrough prize). He was also a member of visiting programme at Janelia Farm of the Howard Hughes medical institute, USA (Hosted by the Nobel prize laureate Prof. Eric Betzig). Shukry has received numerous awards and honours including the fellowships: Minerva (Max-Plank Society), EMBO, DFG, Siebel scholar and London Advanced Therapies award and the Sir Henry Dale Fellowship (Wellcome Trust and Royal Society). Currently, Shukry is a member of the UK Regenerative Medicine platform, which is funded by the Medical Research Council. He is an associate editor in the Journal of Immunology and Regenerative Medicine. Shukry is often involved in public engagement including public talks at Pint of Science and was a member of the judging panel of Science Book Prize 2019, Royal Society.