PhD students

Ruqayyah Alabdullah

Research title:

Generating a 3D environment to assess the role of Extracellular Vesicles in acute myeloid leukaemia using hydrogels

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Catherine Berry

Yusuf Ayten

Research title:

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Matt Dalby

Evangelia Bochti

Research title:

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Catherine Berry

Justine Clarke

Research title:

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Catherine Berry

Finlay Cunniffe

Research title:

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Marco Cantini

Udipt Ranjan Das

Research title:

Nanovibrational stimulation of mesenchymal stromal cell osteogenesis - investigating the relationship between osteogenesis, senescence, and inflammation

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Matt Dalby

Seb Doherty-Boyd

Research title:

Synthetic niches for haematopoietic stem cell maintenance and genetic manipulation.

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Matt Dalby

Amy Carnegie

Research title:

Engineering Neurovascular Organoids of the Blood-Brain Barrier Using Microfluidics

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Kimia Witte

Katherine Cory

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1^st Supervisor:

Prof Delphine Gourdon

George Frederick Vaughan Dunn

Research title:

Directing Peripheral Neurite Growth for Prosthetics

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Kimia Witte

Konstantina Evdokimou

Research title:

Engineering viscoelastic hydrogels for mimicking the tumour microenvironment and stopping tumour progression

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Delphine Gourdon

Zonghan Gan

Research title:

Dynamic biomaterials for stem cell engineering

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez

Philip Graemer

Research title:

AI-powered Smart Microscopy for cell engineering

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Giuseppe Di Caprio

Gillian Higgins

Research title:

Clinical and Surgical Sciences

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Mathis Riehle

Emily Horsburgh

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1^st Supervisor:

Prof Massimo Vassalli

Julia Isakova

Research title:

Developing RAMAN-based methodology to investigate cell glycosylation signatures

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Miguel Pineda

Zarina Issabekova

Research title:

Development and characterisation of tuneable microgels for controlled protein delivery in tissue regeneration

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Cristina Gonzalez Garcia

Paris Kalli

Research title:

Beating mesenchymal stem cell senescence with materials that organise growth factors

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Matt Dalby

Anna Maria Kapetanaki

Research title:

Label-free physical biomarkers for next generation cell sorting.

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Massimo Vassalli

Emma Kelly

Research title:

Magnetic hydrogels for bone tissue engineering

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Catherine Berry

Rui Ling Lee

Research title:

Development of a humanised 3D hydrogel bone marrow niche model to study stem cell communication via extracellular vesicles.

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Cristina Gonzalez-Garcia

Xinyu Li

Research title:

Development of new bioactive hydrogels for therapeutics protein delivery during tissue regeneration.

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Cristina Gonzalez-Garcia

Ziyuan Luo

Research title:

Mechanotransduction in Viscoelastic Hydrogels

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Marco Cantini

Emily Maxwell

Research title:

Advanced 3D bioprinted scaffolds for stem cell engineering

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez

Eonan William Pringle

Research title:

Dissipative microenvironments to understand cell response to viscosity.

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Marco Cantini

Amina Rezig

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1^st Supervisor:

Dr Mathis Riehle

Ioanna Rigou

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1^st Supervisor:

Prof Matthew Dalby

Conor Robinson

Research title:

Bioengineering of Pharma Ready Bone Marrow Models for Cancer Drug Screening.

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Matt Dalby

Dora Rogkoti

Research title:

Modelling the bone marrow niche to study and predict tumourigenicity.

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez

Shaima Riha

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1^st Supervisor:

Professor Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez

Camilla Romagnoli

Research title:

Mechanobiology of senescent cells.

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Massimo Vassalli

Faiza Abdul Salam

Research title:

Nano indentation device using self-sensing cantilevers

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Massimo Vassalli

Marta Cubero Sarabia

Research title:

Remote mechanical stimulation of stem cells for osteochondral regenerative therapy.

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Massimo Vassalli

Sabah Sardar

Research title:

Identification of Label-free Biomarkers in Visceral Myopathy

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Massimo Vassalli

Konstantina (Nadia) Soulioti

Research title:

Correlating viscoelasticity and microstructure of the tumour environment to enable early detection, diagnosis and invasion of breast cancer.

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Delphine Gourdon

Alexandre Trubert

Research title:

'Bioactive hydrogels for stem cell engineering.

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez

Ioannis Angelos Tsigkos

Research title:

Bioengineering cancer niches to develop stem cell therapies.

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Matt Dalby

Euan Urquhart

Research title:

New bioactive hydrogels for growth factor delivery during wound healing.

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Cristina Gonzalez-Garcia