Congratulations to the poster prize winners at the 2025 Materials for Medical Devices workshop

The 2026 Biomaterials in Healthcare workshop took place at the University of Nottingham on 20-21 January 2026. On this occasion, our kind sponsors the Henry Royce Institute and the Royal Society of Chemistry Journal of Materials Chemistry B and Materials Horizons sponsored three contributed talk prizes and three poster prizes, respectively. The awards were aimed at researcher demonstrating outstanding scientific outputs and engaging presentation skills.

The prize winners for best contrbuted talk were:

1. Nicola Kelly (University of Liverpool), with her talk "Membranes Matter: Electrospun Materials for the Advancement of Lateral Flow Diagnostics".
2. Paz Boix Montesinos (University of Nottingham), with her talk "A human Foreign Body Response-on-Chip for animal-free biomaterial evaluation".
3. Cosimo Ligorio (University of Nottinhgam), with his talk "Converting Blood and Bone Marrow into Bioactive Materials for Regeneration and Stem Cell Expansion".

The prize winners for the best contributed poster were (in no particular order):

• Ting Chen (University of Liverpool), presenting his work "Electrospun Poly(vinyl) Alcohol Nanofibers for Antimicrobial dental patches".
• Natalia Gonzalez-Martinez (University of Nottingham), presenting her work "Towards high-throughput screening of surface chemistries and topographies for macrophage and fibroblast immunomodulation using the ChemoTopoChip platform".
• Kei Wong (University of Nottingham), presenting his work "Extracellular metabolomics of polymer-topography induced macrophage phenotypes".

Congratulations to all the winners for their achievement!