Academics/ Project Manager/ PostDocs/ PhDs/ Alumni
Morgan Alexander
Morgan is Principal Investigator of this Programme Grant and RC1: Moving from 2D to 3D Materials Discovery Methods lead.
Cameron Alexander
Felicity Rose
Professor of Tissue Engineering, School of Pharmacy, Regenerative Medicine and Cellular Therapies Division
Felicity is Co-Investigator and RC3: Advanced Materials for 3D Stem Cell Differentiation and Regenerative Medicine lead.
Amir Ghaemmaghami
Kevin Shakesheff
Professor of Advanced Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering, School of Pharmacy, Regenerative Medicine and Cellular Therapies
Kevin is involved mainly in RC3.
Martyn Davies
Emeritus Professor of Biomedical Surface Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Advanced Materials and Healthcare Technologies Division
Martyn is Co-Investigator and mainly involved in RC4.
Derek Irvine
Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Derek is involved mainly in RC1 and 3.
Anna Grabowska
Professor of Cancer Microenvironment, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences
Anna is involved mainly in RC2.
Chris Denning
Professor; Head of Department of Stem Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences
Co-Investigator on this grant, Chris is involved mainly in RC3.
Ricky Wildman
Professor of Multiphase Flow and Mechanics, Faculty of Engineering
Ricky is involved mainly in RC1 and 3.
Steve Howdle
Professor of Chemistry, Faculty of Science
Steve is involved mainly in RC2.
Paul Williams
Professor of Molecular Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences
Paul is involved mainly in RC4.
Richard Hague
Professor of Innovative Manufacturing, Director - EPSRC Centre for Additive Manufacturing,Faculty of Engineering
Richard is Co-Investigator, involved mainly in RC1.
Christopher Tuck
Cathy Merry
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences.
Cathy is mainly involved in RC3.
Phil Williams
Faculty of Science
Phil is mainly involved in RC1.
Hyun Kim
Shool of Pharmacy.
Graham Harrison
EPSRC Programme Grant Project Manager
Chester Blackburn
Chester joined the project in 2021 working on combinatorial screening of biomaterial surface chemistry and topography in RC1.
Le Ma
Postdoctoral Research Fellow: School of Pharmacy, Advanced Materials and Healthcare Technologies Division.
Le joined the project in 2018 working on creating 3D architecture libraries with two photon polymerisation in RC1.
Grazziela Figueredo
Aishah Nasir
Adam Dundas
Adam joined the project in 2017 working on making polymer particles from microfluidics in RC1.
Robert Owen
Robert joined the grant in 2020 and works on differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells to bone in RC3.
Ana C.da Silva
Ana joined the project in 2018 working on bacterial attachment and polymicrobial interactions in RC4.
Arsalan Latif
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Medicine & Health Sciences
Arsalan joined the project in 2016 as a PhD student and continues as a Post Doc working on Developing immune instructive niches to promote healing and suppress fibrosis, mainly associated with RC4.
Charlotte Henshaw
PhD student, School of Pharmacy
Main Supervisor: Phil Williams
Charlotte joined the project in 2017 working on Micropipette manipulation for nanoparticle production and characterization in biomaterials discovery, mainly associated with RC1.
Kiril Kalenderski
PhD Student, Medicine & Health Sciences
Main supervisor Paul Williams
Kiril joined the project in 2016 working on Exploiting 3D synthetic bacterial communities to investigate virulence and antibiotic resistance, mainly associated with RC4.
Eduardo Pernaut-Leza
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.
Jamie Thompson
Main supervisor Cathy Merry
Jamie joined the project in 2017 working on matrix-inspired biomaterials for cell phenotype control, mainly associated with RC3.
Leonardo Contreas
Leonardo joined the project in 2018 working on computational approaches to determining biomaterial design rules, mainly associated with RC1.
Elisa Tarsitano
Main Supervisors: Lisa White, Andrew Bennett, Jing Yang and Morgan Alexander
Elisa's work investigated liver extracellular matrix (ECM) hydrogels as 3D scaffold for the support, growth and differentiation of human progenitor liver cells for the development of a liver in-vitro model.
Paulius Mikulskis
Previously a PostDoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Pharmacy working on Determining Biomaterial Design Rules in RC1.
We said farewell to Paulius in November 2018. He is now a Postdoc fellow at AstraZeneca, Sweden and working on a 2nd PhD.
Mahetab Amer
Previously a PostdoctoralResearch Fellow: School of Pharmacy, Stem Cell Biology.
Mahetab left the grant in 2020, and now works as a University Academic Fellow in Predictive Disease Models at the University of Leeds.
Simon Haas
Previously a PostDoctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Engineering, working on making polymer particles from microfluidics in RC1.
Previously a PostDoctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, working on cardiomyocyte maturation in RC3.
Previously a PostDoctoral Research Fellow: School of Pharmacy, Molecular Therapeutics and Formulation Division working on polymers for drug delivery in RC2.
Britta Koch
Previously a PostDoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Pharmacy, working on combinatorial screening of biomaterial surface chemistry and topography in RC1.
Previously a PostDoctoral Research Fellow in Immunology and Biomaterials, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, working on immunology in RC4.
Previously a PostDoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Pharmacy, working on polymer microparticles for regenerative medicine in RC3.
Nishant Singh
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.
Manual Romero
We said farewell to Manuel in September 2018. He has taken up a Research Fellow position at the University of Nottingham.
Thais Abelha
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.
Amanda Pearce
Amanda left in March 2019 after working in RC2 and now works at the University of Birmingham as a Senior Research Fellow and PERCAT rep for the School of Chemistry.
Hassan Rotsam
Laurence Burroughs
Previously Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Pharmacy.
Laurence left the project in 2020 after working as part of RC1 on combinatorial screening of biomaterial surface chemistry and topography.
Jordan Thorpe
Jordan came to the end of his PhD in 2020 and now works in Australia at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney.
Matthew Vassey
Matt joined the project in 2017 working on immunology in RC4 and left us in 2021 to work at Aston University as a Technology Transfer Manager.
Patricia Montiero
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.
Scarlett Xue
Postdoctoral Research Fellow: School of Pharmacy.
Scarlett joined the project in 2020 worked on combinatorial screening of biomaterial surface chemistry and topography in RC1.
Joris Meurs
Main supervisor Hyun Kim
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.
Alessandra Travanut
PhD Student, School of Pharmacy
Main supervisor Cameron Alexander
Alessandra joined the project in 2016 and worked on Multi-Component Polymerization (MCP) Reactions for Biomedical Materials, mainly associated with RC2. Alessandra gained her PhD in 2020 and started work as R&D associate at Reckitt Benckiser, Italy.
Dara O'Brien
PhD Student, School of Chemistry
Main supervisor Steve Howdle
Dara joined the project in 2016 and worked on new and renewably sourced sustainable functional degradable polymers, mainly associated with RC2.
Dara attainded her PhD in 2020 and is currently working as a Business Development and Operations Associate at Exactmer, London.
Robert Cavanagh
Postdoctoral Research Fellow: School of Pharmacy
Robert joined the grant in 2019 and worked as part of RC2, researching drug treatments for triple negative breast cancer. Robert took up a new role at the University of Nottingham in 2021 linked to the EPSRC IRC in Targeted Delivery for Hard-to-Treat Cancers.
Valentina Cuzzocoli Crucitti
PhD Student, Faculty of Engineering
Main supervisor Derek Irvine
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.
Francesco Pappalardo
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Pharmacy
Francesco joined the project in 2016 as a PhD student and continued as a Post Doc working on Novel polymer microparticles and their influence on mesenchymal stem cell behaviour, mainly associated with RC3. Francesco returned to Italy in 2021.
Advanced Materials and Healthcare Technologies, School of Pharmacy, The University of Nottingham University Park Nottingham, NG7 2RD
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