Understanding Toxicology with Print - Cardboard Cut
1 day course
25 June 2024
10am to 3:30pm
£10 including all materials, lunch will be provided
A rare opportunity to visit and learn about research happening at the MRC Toxicology Unit in Cambridge, and explore related images with a Cardboard Cut printmaking workshop.
The unit is a leading international research institute based in Cambridge. Their mission is to carry out pioneering research and understand the links between exposure to various chemicals, toxins and pharmaceutical agents and how they cause toxicity in the human body. By determining any risks to health from drug and environmental exposures, they aim to improve health by making our medicines and environment safer. The Unit was established in 1947 and relocated to Cambridge in 2020.
Researcher Marguerite Colin is a PhD Student in Anne Willis’ lab at the MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge, working on RNA therapeutics. RNA therapeutics have revolutionised treatment options for a number of debilitating conditions, from rare genetic diseases to cancers and viral infections. While there has been several successes in the clinic, a lot of work is required to enable delivery of these lifesaving therapeutics in specific organs, while retaining activity and reducing toxicity. Marguerite works with antisense oligonucleotides, a RNA-DNA therapeutics, and studies how these modalities and their chemical modifications could be used to treat cardiomyopathies and related heart failure, a leading cause of death worldwide. To do so, she is creating human organoids that recapitulates the healthy and diseased heart and hope to better understand how ASOs behave in these models.
Cardboard cut is a relief printing process in which the layers of card are cut and peeled away leaving the different levels of raised areas, or the card surface scored, textured or cut into. The card plate is then inked and printed. Learn how to plan and cut and print an image using this sensitive technique. On this course, you will interpret images from Marguerite’s research using drypoint images.
Further arrival and attending information for participants will be sent after booking.
Course structure
• Coffee and Presentation & explanation of her research by Marguerite Colin
• Q & A opportunity
• Examples & demonstration of Cardboard Cut tools and techniques by Curwen Tutors.
• Create an A5 image scoring, incising and peeling away layers of the card.
• Short tour of the Research department followed by lunch.
• Printing your Cardboard Cut image and experimenting with colour and layering.
• Share your work
Experience level
Suitable for beginners, those wishing to refresh their skills and those interested in the work of the MRC Toxicology Unit in Cambridge.
Maximum 12 places
Please note, the fee for this course is non-refundable.
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If for any reason you are unable to attend, we will refund monies paid minus a £20 admin fee, as long as you cancel your place more than 1 month before the course start date.
There is an option to book your place for £100 deposit. If you choose this option your place is secured. The balance of term 1 will be due 20 working days before the start of the course. If you cancel more than 20 working days before the course start date, we will refund monies paid minus a £20 admin fee. If your place is not cancelled during this timescale, and the balance is not paid then the deposit is non refundable. All other Terms & Conditions remain the same. Curwen Print Study Centre reserves the right to cancel courses – a full refund will be made in these circumstances.
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Payment for Term 1 is required when booking a place. A reserved place is not secure until this payment has been received. Payments for Terms 2 & 3 will be due at the end of the previous term. Payments for Terms 2 & 3 will be due before the first day of each term.
If for any reason prior to the commencement of the course you are unable to attend, we will refund monies paid minus a £20.00 admin fee, as long as you cancel your place more than 1 month before the course start date. Once you start the course on Term 1 you have committed to all 3 terms. Course transfers are at the discretion of Curwen Print Study Centre.
There is an option to book your place for £100 deposit. If you choose this option your place is secured. The balance of term 1 will be due 20 working days before the start of the course. If you cancel more than 20 working days before the course start date, we will refund monies paid minus a £20 admin fee. If your place is not cancelled during this timescale, and the balance is not paid then the deposit is non refundable. All other Terms & Conditions remain the same.
Curwen Print Study Centre reserves the right to cancel courses – a full refund will be made in these circumstances.
