PhD student at UCL researching bladder cancer and the use of organoid technology for therapy development🔬💊| Also experienced in microbiology in particular UTIs, AMR and bacteriophage therapy 🦠🧫🧬
Benjamin Murray
Here’s (most of) the Rohn Lab for the launch of globalUTI.bluesky.social UTIGA26!
@nickyuen.bsky.social @microberamon.bsky.social @victoriachu.bsky.social @fratorelli.bsky.social @murraybeno.bsky.social
#UTICONF26 #UTISky #UTI
Excited to see our latest paper out! @murraybeno.bsky.social & colleagues created an elegant in vitro platform in which #BladderCancer spheroids are embedded into our healthy human urothelial model, 3D-UHU, for studying biology and treatment.
#urology #cancer
short 🧵[1/4]
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Prof Jenny Rohn
Prof Jenny Rohn
🦠 Scientists solved a 30-year mystery showing how gut bacteria capture viruses using tail-like structures called nanotubes.
#Microbiology #Virology #GutMicrobiome #Bacteria #Science via @sciencex.bsky.social
So proud of the team, presenting our work on #UTI using human-cell modelling. First, @victoriachu.bsky.social gave a fantastic podium presentation on her kidney-ureter-bladder chip to study ascending infection #UTISky #UTICONF2026 1/2
Microbes.Info
Really happy my PhD work has been published! Thank you to all who contributed!
We developed a new microtissue model for bladder cancer and use it to test conventional Mitomycin C chemotherapy and a novel oncolytic virus. @jennyrohn.bsky.social @jinhuigao.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Next, 4 posters about a wide variety of great stuff - bladder flow modelling, phage therapy, catheter UTI, virulence mapping, and the gut/bladder axis @murraybeno.bsky.social @microberamon.bsky.social @nickyuen.bsky.social @fratorelli.bsky.social
#UTISky #UTICONF2026
Great day presenting my poster at UTIGA conference in Nashville. Loads of positive feedback and amazing collaborations! What a great community to be part of!
More importantly, a massive well done to @victoriachu.bsky.social for a brilliant talk today! Nailed it! 👌
#UTICONF26 #UTISky #UTI
British Journal of Cancer - An advanced in vitro bladder cancer model integrating bladder cancer spheroids into a healthy human urothelium for preclinical therapeutic testing
British Journal of Cancer - An advanced in vitro bladder cancer model integrating bladder cancer spheroids into a healthy human urothelium for preclinical therapeutic testing
doi.org
Prof Jenny Rohn
Recurrent and chronic UTIs have a huge impact on patient's quality of life and is an area of research which is often overlooked and understudied. There are massive gaps in our understanding which we can fill to... (1/3)
See all images in this post and that follow for the top 10!
#MicroSky #UTISky
specifically decided upon by them.
It was wonderful working with such a diverse group, from patients with lived experiences, clinicians to researchers on this. More detail on the approach, top 10 priorties, priorties outside the top 10, etc if you follow the link below (3/3)
amr-action-uk.org/psp/
..improve treatment, diagnostics and outcomes for patients.
Here, we present the top 10 priorties for recurrent and chronic UTI research. These are areas which are important to patients suffering from recurrent and chronic UTIs, their families and careers and healthcare professionals and were (2/3)
Benjamin Murray
Prof Jenny Rohn
Benjamin Murray
Alasdair Hubbard
Alasdair Hubbard
Alasdair Hubbard
Since a landmark 2009 study, researchers have known that a common gut bacterium, Bacteroides fragilis, drives colon tumor formation, potentially leading to colorectal cancer, by secreting a toxin…
