2015-2022 Biomaterials Discovery members

Morgan was Principal Investigator of this Programme Grant and lead of RC1: Moving from 2D to 3D Materials Discovery Methods.

Felicity was Co-Investigator and lead of RC3: Advanced Materials for 3D Stem Cell Differentiation and Regenerative Medicine.

Kevin was involved mainly in RC3.

Derek was involved mainly in RC1 and 3.

Chris was Co-Investigator and mainly involved in RC3.

Steve was involved mainly in RC2.

Richard was Co-Investigator and mainly involved in RC1.

Cathy was involved mainly in RC3.

Hyun was involved mainly in RC1.

Faculty of Science

Chester joined the project in 2021 working on combinatorial screening of biomaterial surface chemistry and topography in RC1.

Adam joined the project in 2017 working on making polymer particles from microfluidics in RC1.

Ana joined the project in 2018 working on bacterial attachment and polymicrobial interactions in RC4.

 Charlotte joined the project in 2017 working on Micropipette manipulation for nanoparticle production and characterization in biomaterials discovery, mainly associated with RC1.

Main supervisor, Anna Grabowska

 

Eduardo joined the project in 2017 working on screening combinatorial materials microarrays to identify inducers of epithelial-mesenchymal transition, mainly associated with RC2.

Leonardo joined the project in 2018 working on computational approaches to determining biomaterial design rules, mainly associated with RC1.

 

We said farewell to Paulius in November 2018. He is now a Postdoc fellow at AstraZeneca, Sweden and working on a 2nd PhD.

We said farewell to Simon in November 2017, and he now works as a Senior Research Scientist at Promethean Particles Ltd.

We said farewell to Benoit in August 2016
and he has taken up a Marie Curie Fellowship at The University of Warwick with
Professor Rachel O’Reilly and Kristopher Thurecht (The University of Queensland).

We said farewell to Blessing in November 2017 and he has taken up a position as an Intellectual Property and Innovation Officer at the Quadram Institute in Norwich. 

We said farewell to Nishant in September 2018 and he has taken up a position at Laboratoire des Systèmes Complexes Hors Équilibre, University of Strasbourg, France.

Thais left the grant in 2020 after working as part of RC2, researching drug treatments for triple negative breast cancer and now has a  CAPES/Print international fellowship at Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), Brazil.

Hassan's work Investigated the impact of some known M1 and M2 biased polymers on in vitro liver fibrosis model. He started a post-doctral fellow role in the School of Life Sciences in 2021.

Jordan came to the end of his PhD in 2020 and now works in Australia at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney.

Patricia  joined the grant in 2019 and worked as part of RC2, researching drug treatments for triple negative. She left to work in the same field at Astra Zeneca in 2021.

 

Joris joined the project in 2017 working on developing mass spectrometry strategies for examination of cellular responses in media and on complex surfaces, mainly associated with RC1.  He attainded his PhD in 2021 and took up a Post Doctral position at Radboud University, Netherlands.

 

Dara joined the project in 2016 and worked on new and renewably sourced sustainable functional degradable polymers, mainly associated with RC2.

Valentina joined the project in 2016 working on Continuous Sustainable Synthesis of Polymeric Resins for use in the Construction of 3D structures. Initially she was mainly associated with RC2 but increasingly linked to RC3. Valentina passed her PhD in 2021 and took up a post doctoral position in the Faculty of Engineering, here at the University of Nottingham.