On Friday 15th March the MRC Toxicology Unit invited 30 schoolchildren to the Unit to participate in the UniStem event 2019, in conjunction with the University of Leicester.

UniStem Day is an outreach event dedicated to stem cell research for high school students, and is currently the largest educational outreach initiative on stem cells and regenerative medicine in Europe. In 2018 the event was organised simultaneously by 74 universities across Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, UK and Hungary.

The school children attended short lectures and a web-based interactive event with other UniStem sites across Europe, and were also given the opportunity to visit the MRC Toxicology Unit Stem Cell laboratories.