Rocio Sancho Lab
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And this is us... Pancreas plasticity and regeneration lab (@ the Centre for Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine - King's College London 🇬🇧) www.sancholab.org Pluripotent stem cells | Diabetes | Beta cells | Organoids | Cell fate regulation
💭How can AI help scientists study specific molecules in the crowded world of a cell? Steffen Klein, together with the Baker Lab, used AI to design NovoTags, a new protein tag, helping scientists identify specific proteins inside cells via fluorescence microscopy. #EMBL_AI
Amazing work and an invaluable resource for the pancreas research community. Huge congratulations to all the authors! 👏👏👏 A single-cell multi-omic atlas of the human pancreas reveals potential for cellular plasticity across development, health, and disease: www.cell.com/cell-metabol...
A single-cell multi-omic atlas of the human pancreas reveals potential for cellular plasticity across development, health, and disease
Mereu et al. present ESPACE, a single-cell multi-omic atlas of the human pancreas spanning fetal development, adulthood, and type 2 diabetes. Combining transcriptomics, chromatin accessibility, and sp...
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Cuando era un jovenzuelo y entré a trabajar en El País de la Tentaciones allá por los noventa, de vez en cuando hacía cosas para Julia en El País Semanal. Siempre me pareció de las personas más amables y receptivas de la redacción. Pena 🙁 elpais.com/cultura/2026...
Julia Luzán, la periodista cultural que no se parecía a nadie
Escribió, para este periódico y para otros medios, sobre todo de arte y de asuntos que tenían que ver con la historia y con la memoria. Estaba siempre atenta a lo que pasaba, y a lo que nos pasaba a q...
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🚀 New paper out from the Gentleman & Sancho Labs! What happens when developmental biology meets bioengineering? We show how stiffness shapes the generation and maturation of stem cell derived beta cells. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @diabetesuk.bsky.social
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Tomorrow is the day… Swim22 starts… yay!!! 🎉 🏊♀️ 🔬 🧫 We are back in the pool for @diabetesuk.bsky.social to support people living with diabetes and research towards better treatments and a cure, please donate! swim22.diabetes.org.uk/teams/stem-c...
Stem Cells for Diabetes Swim Team
I'm taking on Swim22 and raising money for Diabetes UK
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Wow! Cool paper! Cyborg pancreatic islet organoids | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cyborg pancreatic islet organoids
Bio-nanoelectronic islets are new tools for diabetes research and therapy
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Congratulations to Rashmi and Karolina and also to the technology development studio of the MPI-CBG without whom the screen would not have been possible. If you are interested in high-content screening in organoid models, you may want to take a look.
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics@mpi-cbg.de · 10mo agoThe group of @anne-grapin.bsky.social developed methods to create functional acinar cells, which are involved in the formation of pancreatic cancer. Rashmiparvathi Keshara, Karolina Kuodyte, and the TDS facility used image-based screen & robust analysis pipeline. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
Online Now! High-content screening of organoids reveals the mechanisms of human pancreas acinar specification #stemcells
High-content screening of organoids reveals the mechanisms of human pancreas acinar specification
Keshara et al. conducted a high-content screen on pancreas organoids that identified 54 compounds affecting differentiation or morphogenesis. After validating 11 compounds, they focus on Gsk3A/B inhibitors, which, combined with FGF withdrawal, drive acinar cell differentiation, enabling future studies on these cells and their role in cancer initiation in humans.
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Massive congrats to Dr Gehlen who absolutely nailed her viva and is already shining like the star she is ⭐ She is even wearing her PhD gift, a dryrobe that will keep her warm after swiming in freezing waters on her next adventure 🏊♀️❄️ #proud_sanchoLab🥹 @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Sancho Lab in full festive mode at the CGTRM Christmas department lunch... bright energy as the year closes, fantastic time with great food and good laughs all around!!! 🎄✨😄
Fantastic Inaugural Lectures by Katie Doores and Patricia Barral @barrallab.bsky.social . It is a real privilege to have colleagues like them at @kingslsm.bsky.social .
Human pancreatic organoids derived from pluripotent stem cells recapitulate pancreatic organogenesis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.31.685661v1
Generation of human iPSC-derived pancreatic organoids to study pancreas development and disease https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.24.620102v1
Generation of human iPSC-derived pancreatic organoids to study pancreas development and disease https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.24.620102v1
The pancreas has vital endocrine and exocrine functions that can be affected by life-threatening dis
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www.linkedin.com/posts/paola-... Looking for a PhD? We are offering a project for the 2026 intake at the Crick!
Bonfanti and Sancho Lab | Dissecting disease-associated pathways and autoimmunity in type 1 diabetes and congenital hyperinsulinism using iPSC-derived beta cells and spatial multi-omics | Paola Bonfan...
The 2026 #PhD recruitment at The Francis Crick Institute is now open! We are please to announce an additional opportunity to join our laboratory through a PhD project in collaboration with the Rocio...
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Looking for a PhD for 2026? We have 2 projects in collaboration with Clare Bennett (UCL) looking at macrophage metabolism in breast cancer. Check them out! @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social www.colcc.ac.uk/2026-phd-pro... crukradnet.colcc.ac.uk/phd-students...
✨A wonderful day of connection, insight, and inspiration at the BMBS PI Retreat. Grateful to all who shared their ideas and to Prof Rachel Tribe for closing the event with such energy and vision ✨ @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Had an amazing time at The CGT Circle Leiden ✨ Sharing my career journey with this incredible group was truly rewarding. Huge thanks to the organisers and to Sophia Kolbe for the invite 🙌 #NecstGen @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @diabetesuk.bsky.social @ukri.org
We did it! 🌙✨ The Shine Night Walk was amazing and every step was powered by your support. Huge thanks to all who donated 🙏💙 What a night! 🎉👟 #ShineWalk @cancerresearchuk.org @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
The Sancho Lab is also joining forces in this beautiful initiative 🌟👟. Together, we are walking to support vital research 💖🎗️. Every donation, big or small, makes a difference 🙏✨. fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/team/shiny-i... @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @cancerresearchuk.org
Shiny Islets
Cancer is happening right now, which is why we're fundraising right now for Cancer Research UK. There’s no time to lose! Donate today and help bring forward the day when all cancers are cured. Donatin...
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Walking through the night for Cancer Research UK 🌙✨ Every step helps beat cancer 💜 Please support with a donation if you can 🙏💫 fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/rocios-...
Rocio - Shine Night Walk
I am taking part in the Shine Walk in memory of my mother, who was my rock, the strongest guiding force in my life, who shaped who I am today and gave me the most powerful example to follow. She passe...
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Smiling faces after a delicious ice cream feast at Borough Market 🍦 wishing Vicky the very best with her MRes at Imperial, you will do amazing 🎉✨
📣 Job alert! We are seeking motivated researchers to apply for a postdoctoral research associate position in #Robotics and #ArtificialIntelligence, funded by our new EPSRC project, Circular Robot 5.0! More information: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/118605-...
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Robotics & AI
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We are doing it again!! 🚶♀️🚶♂️🚶🧪🧫🔬 For the Second Year My Lab is participating to the One_Walk_London 🎡 to raise money for life-changing research & make a difference to T1D #diabetes ⤵️ support.breakthrought1d.org.uk/fundraisers/... Please help us raise funds for @breakthrought1duk.bsky.social
Spagnoli Lab. One Walk
Please help us raise vital funds for Breakthrough T1D, the leading global type 1 diabetes (T1D) research charity. Your support will help change the lives of everyone affected with T1D - Thanks so much...
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We have a special episode out for you now, recorded live at #ISSCR2025! Drs. Hongkui Deng and Candice Liew share the story behind their groundbreaking study transplanting CiPSC-derived islets into a patient with #Type1Diabetes. Listen now: bit.ly/4n9c54K
Jenny Gehlen, final-year PhD student in the Sancho Lab, rocked her poster presentation at #ISSCR2025 in Hong Kong! Brilliant work, Jenny!✨🧫🧬🔬 @isscr.org @diabetesuk.bsky.social @ukri.org @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Live from #ISSCR2025! Prof Hongkui Deng reviewed chemical reprogramming for iPSCs, boosting efficiency & safety. Promising diabetes data! Strong talks on mechanisms & translation. More discussions ahead! @isscribe.bsky.social @diabetesuk.bsky.social @ukri.org @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
🤩 Amazing start of the ISSCR experience! Great public symposium at the Hong Kong Science & Technology Park! 🧬🔬🧫👏🧑🔬 @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @ukri.org @diabetesuk.bsky.social @isscr.org
🤩 Great talk by Jenny Gehlen at the BMBS PhD Symposium on how pancreatic stiffness influences beta cell differentiation. #ProudPI 🥹. Thanks to the organising team for such an amazing day! 🎉👩🔬🧫🔬👨🔬 @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @diabetesuk.bsky.social @lido-dtp.bsky.social @lscn.bsky.social
Absolutely thrilled to be heading to #ISSCR2025 in Hong Kong this June! Looking forward to connecting with colleagues, who else is going? Let me know if you would like to catch up 🧫🔬👩💻
