{"id":967,"date":"2015-03-16T12:27:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T12:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/?p=967"},"modified":"2015-03-16T12:35:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T12:35:12","slug":"outreach-activity-from-apmic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/2015\/03\/16\/outreach-activity-from-apmic\/","title":{"rendered":"Outreach activity from APMIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/files\/2015\/03\/150224_fringe_animals_099.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-968\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/files\/2015\/03\/150224_fringe_animals_099-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"150224_fringe_animals_099\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/r.dickinson\">Dr Robert Dickinson<\/a> &amp; Rita Campos Pires from <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.imperial.ac.uk\/apmic\/\">APMIC<\/a> took part in a public engagement event as part of the Imperial Fringe series, that focussed on how and why scientists and doctors use animals in research.\u00a0 Their stand focussed on how new treatments for brain injuries may be developed using a variety of techniques from modelling simulations, to <em>in vitro<\/em> tissue experiments and <em>in vivo<\/em> animal models of brain injury.<\/p>\n<p>For more information please see the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1xrwoKh\">Imperial News item<\/a> on the event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/files\/2015\/03\/GillespiePrimary_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-969\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/files\/2015\/03\/GillespiePrimary_2-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"GillespiePrimary_2\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDr Dickinson &amp; Rita Campos Pires also\u00a0took part in an outreach activity at the innovative Lab 13 at Gillespie Primary School in Highbury where they talked about how the brain and the body work with groups of pupils from Years 2, 4 and 6.<\/p>\n<p>In the photograph Rita is demonstrating to the pupils how the lungs work with the aid of a medical mannequin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Robert Dickinson &amp; Rita Campos Pires from APMIC took part in a public engagement event as part of the Imperial Fringe series, that focussed on how and why scientists and doctors use animals in research.\u00a0 Their stand focussed on how new treatments for brain injuries may be developed using a variety of techniques from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}