Last week, Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) welcomed Professor of Peking University Jianzhong Xi to campus. He had been invited to give the 141^st lecture in the SUSTech Lecture Series, in which he gave a fascinating lecture entitled, “Mini-Tumour Chip as a Robust Tool for Precision Cancer Therapy.” Professor Jiang Xingyu, Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering hosted the lecture.

Professor Jianzhong Xi

In his lecture, Prof. Xi talked about a novel personalized drug testing platform named patient-derived tumor-like cell clusters (PTCs) chip or mini-tumour chip. He made comparision of mini-tumour chip with 3D cultures and organoids.