A visit to London on Wednesday 16th March enabled 13 pupils to attend a lecture at Imperial College London.  The lecture was titled The Incredible Shrinking Laboratory, and focused around the PhD research work of  Professor Andrew de Mello and his students from Oxford University and Imperial College.   Professor de Mello is currently Professor of Chemical Nanosciences,  and gave an intriguing  lecture on their creation and development of  a Lab-on-a-chip technology that has been driven by the concept of miniaturisation and how it is applied to chemical and biological problems.   The lecture was followed by a tour of the central London campus which was led by an international student ambassador called Esther from Canada.   She has come to the United Kingdom to study Biomedical Engineering on a Postgraduate course.    Esther had a wealth of information and history about the college to share with us and we had the opportunity to visit her research laboratory.   To have a behind-the-scenes look at this leading university in the heart of London was a truly inspiring experience.