Dr. Nicole Prior is a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Dr. Meritxell Huch at the Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge and Max Planck institute in Dresden. Nikitas Georgakopoulos is a shared PhD student in the laboratories of Dr. Meritxell Huch and Dr. Kourosh Saeb-Parsy at the Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge. Dr Meritxell Huch is a Lise Meitner Max Planck Research Group leader at the Max Planck institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden. The focus of their research is to develop pancreas and liver organoid technologies and use these to answer fundamental questions about how these organs function and how organoids can be utilised for disease modeling and therapeutic purposes.