Department of Hepatology

Undergraduate Student Projects

Current list of projects for BSc (hons) or intercollated year within MVM Medical School

HepaRG co-culture systems

HepaRG cells are an intrinsic co-culture of hepatocytes and cholangiocyte-like cells. While this offers a unique cell culture of liver parenchymal cells, there is scope for optimising this culture with other physiologically relevant cells such as mesenchymal stem cells, HUVECs or stellate cells.