PhD students

Euan Urquhart

Research title:

New bioactive hydrogels for growth factor delivery during wound healing.

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Cristina Gonzalez-Garcia

Rui Ling Lee

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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

Omolola Ajayi

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Engineered Microenvironments for Multiscale Mechanobiology of Breast Cancer.

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Delphine Gourdon

Zonghan Gan

Research title:

Dynamic biomaterials for stem cell engineering.

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez

Dora Rogkoti

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Modelling the bone marrow niche to study and predict tumourigenicity.

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez

Conor Robinson

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

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Matt Dalby

Konstantina (Nadia) Soulioti

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

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Delphine Gourdon

Ioannis Angelos Tsigkos

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Bioengineering cancer niches to develop stem cell therapies.

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Matt Dalby

Egle Morta Antanaviciute

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Nanovibrational bioreactor for production of bone graft from mesenchymal stem cells.

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Matt Dalby

Giuseppe Ciccone

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Photoelastic Gel Microscopy.

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Massimo Vassalli

Simon Clark

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Characterising the immune response to nanokicked mesenchymal stem cells.

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez

Seb Doherty-Boyd

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Synthetic niches for haematopoietic stem cell maintenance and genetic manipulation.

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Matt Dalby

Ana San Felix

Research title:

Effect of forces and deformation of the substrate on MSCs metabolism and differentiation.

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez

Martino Guiotto

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Regenerative medicine of peripheral nerve repair.

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Mathis Riehle

Nuttaporn Jarangdej

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Mechanobiology of stretch.

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Mathis Riehle

Olivia Johnson-Love

Research title:

Optimisation and scale-up of nanovibrational stimulation to control the differentiation of adult stem cells

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Peter Childs

Anna Maria Kapetanaki

Research title:

Label-free physical biomarkers for next generation cell sorting.

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Massimo Vassalli

Thomas Laverty

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Extracellular vesicles, extracellular matrix and their effects on cancer cells.

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Matt Dalby

Xinyu Li

Research title:

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

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Cristina Gonzalez-Garcia

Lydia Styliani Marinou

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Advanced coatings to improve the bio-integration of vascular grafts

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

Mariana Azevedo Gonzalez Oliva

Research title:

Role of piezo1 in transducing viscosity cues to the cell nucleus

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez

Camilla Romagnoli

Research title:

Mechanobiology of senescent cells.

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Massimo Vassalli

Alvaro Sanchez-Rubio

Research title:

'3D Bioprinting: new materials and structures for tissue engineering.

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Manuel Salmeron=Sanchez

Marta Cubero Sarabia

Research title:

Remote mechanical stimulation of stem cells for osteochondral regenerative therapy.

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Massimo Vassalli

Sabah Sardar

Research title:

Identification of Label-free Biomarkers in Visceral Myopathy

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Massimo Vassalli

Christina Schofield

Research title:

Engineering a Novel In Vitro Model of the Blood-Brain Barrier.

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez

Alexandre Trubert

Research title:

'Bioactive hydrogels for stem cell engineering.

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez

Yinbo Xiao

Research title:

Bioengineering the hematopoietic stem cell niche.

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Matt Dalby

Haoming Wang

Research title:

Viscosity in the integrin-growth factor cross-talk.

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez

PhD students

Euan Urquhart

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1st Supervisor:

Dr Cristina Gonzalez-Garcia

Rui Ling Lee

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1st Supervisor:

Dr Cristina Gonzalez-Garcia

Omolola Ajayi

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1st Supervisor:

Prof Delphine Gourdon

Zonghan Gan

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1st Supervisor:

Prof Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez

Dora Rogkoti

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1st Supervisor:

Prof Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez

Conor Robinson

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1st Supervisor:

Prof Matt Dalby

Konstantina (Nadia) Soulioti

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Prof Delphine Gourdon

Ioannis Angelos Tsigkos

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1st Supervisor:

Prof Matt Dalby

Egle Morta Antanaviciute

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Prof Matt Dalby

Giuseppe Ciccone

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Dr Massimo Vassalli

Simon Clark

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1st Supervisor:

Prof Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez

Seb Doherty-Boyd

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1st Supervisor:

Prof Matt Dalby

Ana San Felix

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Prof Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez

Martino Guiotto

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Dr Mathis Riehle

Nuttaporn Jarangdej

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Dr Mathis Riehle

Olivia Johnson-Love

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Dr Peter Childs

Anna Maria Kapetanaki

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Dr Massimo Vassalli

Thomas Laverty

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Prof Matt Dalby

Xinyu Li

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Dr Cristina Gonzalez-Garcia

Lydia Styliani Marinou

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