Contact

• workBiodiscovery Institute
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• Aishah.Nasir@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

August 2021 - EPSRC IAA grant "Chemo-topography" synthetic surfaces for Human pluripotent Stem Cell derived cardiomyocyte maturation

2018 - Present Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the EPSRC Programme Grant in Next Generation Biomaterials Discovery working on advanced materials for improved Human Pluripotent stem cell culture and human stem cell derived cardiomyocyte maturation.

2017 - 2018 Research Associate "Stem Cell Glycobiology project working on sulphated marine oligosaccharides to create stem cell niches"

2013 - 2017 PhD at the University of Nottingham "Using 3D models to investigate metastasis in medulloblastoma brain tumours."

Recent Publications

• NASIR, AISHAH, CARDALL, ALICE, OTHMAN, RAMADHAN T, NICOLAOU, NIOVI, LOURDUSAMY, ANBARASU, LINKE, FRANZISKA, ONION, DAVID, RYZHOVA, MARINA, CAMERON, HANNA, VALENTE, CARA, RITCHIE, ALISON, KORSHUNOV, ANDREY, PFISTER, STEFAN M, GRABOWSKA, ANNA M, KERR, IAN D and COYLE, BETH, 2021. ABCB1 inhibition provides a novel therapeutic target to block TWIST1-induced migration in medulloblastoma. Neuro-oncology advances. 3(1), vdab030
• NASIR, AISHAH, THORPE, JORDAN, BURROUGHS, LAURENCE, MEURS, JORIS, PIJUAN-GALITO, SARA, IRVINE, DEREK J., ALEXANDER, MORGAN R. and DENNING, CHRIS, 2021. Discovery of a Novel Polymer for Xeno-Free, Long-Term Culture of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Expansion ADVANCED HEALTHCARE MATERIALS. 10(6),
• ALVAREZ-PAINO M, AMER MH, NASIR A, CUZZUCOLI CRUCITTI V, THORPE J, BURROUGHS L, NEEDHAM D, DENNING C, ALEXANDER MR, ALEXANDER C and ROSE FRAJ, 2019. Polymer Microparticles with Defined Surface Chemistry and Topography Mediate the Formation of Stem Cell Aggregates and Cardiomyocyte Function. ACS applied materials & interfaces. (In Press.)

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• NASIR, AISHAH, CARDALL, ALICE, OTHMAN, RAMADHAN T, NICOLAOU, NIOVI, LOURDUSAMY, ANBARASU, LINKE, FRANZISKA, ONION, DAVID, RYZHOVA, MARINA, CAMERON, HANNA, VALENTE, CARA, RITCHIE, ALISON, KORSHUNOV, ANDREY, PFISTER, STEFAN M, GRABOWSKA, ANNA M, KERR, IAN D and COYLE, BETH, 2021. ABCB1 inhibition provides a novel therapeutic target to block TWIST1-induced migration in medulloblastoma. Neuro-oncology advances. 3(1), vdab030
• NASIR, AISHAH, THORPE, JORDAN, BURROUGHS, LAURENCE, MEURS, JORIS, PIJUAN-GALITO, SARA, IRVINE, DEREK J., ALEXANDER, MORGAN R. and DENNING, CHRIS, 2021. Discovery of a Novel Polymer for Xeno-Free, Long-Term Culture of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Expansion ADVANCED HEALTHCARE MATERIALS. 10(6),
• ALVAREZ-PAINO M, AMER MH, NASIR A, CUZZUCOLI CRUCITTI V, THORPE J, BURROUGHS L, NEEDHAM D, DENNING C, ALEXANDER MR, ALEXANDER C and ROSE FRAJ, 2019. Polymer Microparticles with Defined Surface Chemistry and Topography Mediate the Formation of Stem Cell Aggregates and Cardiomyocyte Function. ACS applied materials & interfaces. (In Press.)