IMSR Online Seminar: Seeing is Believing - In Vivo Cell Tracking for Cancer Research

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About this talk

This talk will focus on the question how to track cells in living organisms. The need as well as fundamental methodologies to do so will be explained. Cell tracking is important for various aspects of cancer research including the improvement of our understanding of cancer spread and how to interfere with it as well as obtaining crucial knowledge about the whereabouts and fate of anti-cancer live cell therapies after their administration.  

About the speaker

Gilbert Fruhwirth holds degrees in Biochemistry & Biotechnology and a PhD in Biochemistry and Cell Biology from Graz University of Technology in Austria, followed by postdoctoral research at the Randall Division of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics at King's College London and later at the CR-UK Comprehensive Cancer Imaging Centre located at King's College London and UCL. As a postdoc, he delivered various cell biological discoveries and co-developed fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy and endoscopy for multi-scale imaging in rodents. In 2013, he was appointed Lecturer at the Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering at King's College London, where he received tenure in 2016, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2018. His research team is focused on the development of new and the improvement of existing therapeutics in oncology and immunology and therefore, they exploit various microscopic and macroscopic imaging approaches.