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Division of
Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering
   
   
  

Welcome to the Division of Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering

Head of Division:

Professor Cameron Alexander

Academic Staff:   Dr Cynthia Bosquillon , Dr Lee Buttery , Dr Martin Garnett , Dr Beppe Mantovani , Dr Maria Marlow , Dr Felicity Rose , Professor Kevin ShakesheffDr Snow Stolnik-Trenkic , Dr Colin Melia

Our Division undertakes a balance of basic and applied research targeted at new therapeutics areas. The field of drug delivery is a highly successful component of modern pharmacy with many patients receiving formulations that controlled the rate or location of release of drugs. In tissue engineering we aim to cure patients through the regeneration of tissues lost from injury or disease.

Our teams are expert in core scientific fields of polymer science, imaging, cell biology & materials science. Our major strength is bringing these core sciences together in interdisciplinary fields to tackle major challenges and develop new therapeutic opportunities.

Our webpage provides links to our interdisciplinary programmes in:

Intelligent polymers
Formulation Insights
Tissue Engineering
Non-viral Gene Delivery
Stem Cell Technology
Biopharmaceutical Delivery Systems
Cell Delivery Systems

We are proud to be part of national & international collaborative teams and networks that include:

REMEDI: Regenerative Medicine a New Industry
STEM: Centre for Stem Cells, Tissue Engineering & Modelling
CBS: Centre for Biomolecular Sciences
Mathematics for Regenerative Medicine 

 

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Latest News

University wins Impact Award for commercialising low salt technology

Description
The University of Nottingham has won a prestigious national prize for the economic and societal impact it has achieved by commercialising a new low salt technology - SODA-LO Salt Microspheres™
Date:
19/06/2013

University licenses revolutionary technology to Tate and Lyle

Description
Eminate signs new licensing deal with Tate & Lyle for revolutionary sodium bicarbonate technology.
Date:
17/06/2013
Health and Wellness business incubator to be established in Nottingham

Health and Wellness business incubator to be established in Nottingham

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Alliance Boots has announced a collaboration with BioCity, the UK's leading bioscience incubation company, to establish a new business incubator focused on health and wellness called MediCity.
Date:
23/05/2013

Recent Publications

 

 

1.     Chau, DYS, NL Tint, RJ Collighan, M Griffin, HS Dua, KM Shakesheff, FRAJ Rose.  The visualisation of vitreous using surface modified poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) microparticlesBritish Journal of Ophthalmology 2010; 94(5):648-653.

2.     Mahlstedt, M, D Anderson, JS Sharp, R McGilvray, MD Barbadillo Muñoz, LD Buttery, MR Alexander, FRAJ Rose, C Denning.  Maintenance of pluripotency in human embryonic stem cells cultured on a synthetic substrate in conditioned medium.  Biotechnology and Bioengineering 2010; 105: 130-140.

3.     Wang N, Adams G, Buttery L, Falcone FH, Stolnik S. Alginate encapsulation technology supports embryonic stem cells differentiation into insulin-producing cells. J Biotechnol. 2009;144:304-12

 

4.     Gothard D, Roberts SJ, Shakesheff K, Buttery LD. Engineering Embryonic Stem Cell Aggregation Allows an Enhanced Osteogenic Differentiation In Vitro. Tissue Eng Part C Methods. 2009

5.     Garnett MC, Ferruti P, Ranucci E, Suardi MA, Heyde M, Sleat R., Sterically stabilized self-assembling reversibly cross-linked polyelectrolyte complexes with nucleic acids for environmental and medical applications.Biochem Soc Trans. 2009; 37:713-6.

6.     Kanczler JM, Ginty PJ, White L, Clarke NM, Howdle SM, Shakesheff KM, Oreffo ROThe effect of the delivery of vascular endothelial growth factor and bone morphogenic protein-2 to osteoprogenitor cell populations on bone formation, Biomaterials. 2010; 31(6):1242-50.

7.     Thurecht, K. J.; Blakey, I.; Peng, H.; Squires, O.; Hsu, S.; Alexander, C. and Whittaker, A. K. Functional Hyperbranched Polymers: Towards Targeted in vivo 19F Magnetic Resonance Imaging using Designed Macromolecules. Journal of the American Chemical Society2010, 132 (15), 5336–5337.

8.     Magnússon, J. P.; Bersani, S.; Salmaso, S.; Alexander, C. and Caliceti, P. In situ Growth of Side-Chain PEG Polymers from Functionalised Human Growth Hormone - A New Technique for Preparation of Enhanced Protein-Polymer Conjugates. Bioconjugate Chemistry 2010, 21, 671–678.

  

 

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