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On Saturday 23rd October, over 300 visitors enjoyed an array of fun and hands-on activities at the annual Family Fun Day at Great Ormond St Hospital. INTENS consortium organised activities explaining how to create organs in the lab, skilfully led by the researchers themselves, opening up the opportunity for dialogue about the work of the consortium and being a scientist. Among the different activities the visitors enjoyed, there were a virtual reality tool allowing ‘to see the organs inside their…

On Friday 28th September, INTENS partners met in London at The Francis Crick Institute to discuss progress and forge directions. The multi-disciplinary and highly collaborative project team presented scientific progress and used combined expertise to outline the next steps. During the richly productive meeting, INTENS partners also discussed the public engagement work of the consortium and had the opportunity to talk with the family of a patient affected by Short Bowel Syndrome, the condition that INTENS work is journeying towards…