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:

The Effect of MSC-Derived Extracellular Vesicles As a Cargo To Target Nuclear Lamina To Get a Higher Number of High-Quality Mesenchymal Stem Cell In Vitro

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Matt Dalby

Celia Ribes Balanza

Research title:

Bioengineered human tissue models of leukaemia to improve drug development

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Hannah Donnelly

Evangelia Bochti

Research title:

Mesenchymal Stromal Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles for Bone Regeneration

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Catherine Berry

Justine Clarke

Research title:

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Catherine Berry

Richard Crow

Research title:

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Peter Childs

Finlay Cunniffe

Research title:

Viscoelasticity in the integrin-growth factor crosstalk

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

Amy Carnegie

Research title:

Engineering Neurovascular Organoids of the Blood-Brain Barrier Using Microfluidics

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Kimia Witte

Katherine Cory

Research title:

ECM-mimetic collagen scaffolds to repair small cartilage lesions in post-traumatic osteoarthritis

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

Swabra Farzia

Research title:

AI-powered Smart Microscopy for Future Cardioprotective Paracrine Therapy

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Giuseppe Di Caprio

Dylan Fowler

Research title:

(Inter)Facing mechanotransduction-related aspects of brain tumour cell metastasis and therapeutic resistance

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Carsten Schulte

Philip Graemer

Research title:

AI-powered Smart Microscopy for cell engineering

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Giuseppe Di Caprio

Nerea Caro Guerrero

Research title:

Breaking Blood-Brain Barriers: Nano-co-cultured BBB organoids

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Kimia Witte

Gillian Higgins

Research title:

Clinical and Surgical Sciences

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Mathis Riehle

Emily Horsburgh

Research title:

Exploring living materials for producing pigments

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Massimo Vassalli

Shruti Hudda

Research title:

Automating Organoid Engineering with Microfluidics

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Kimia Witte

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

Shan Jacob

Research title:

AI-Powered Blood Cell Imaging for Real-Time Health Assessment

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Giuseppe Di Caprio

Paris Kalli

Research title:

Beating mesenchymal stem cell senescence with materials that organise growth factors

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Matt Dalby

Emma Jackson

Research title:

Magnetic hydrogels for bone tissue engineering

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Catherine Berry

Anna Maria Kapetanaki

Research title:

Label-free physical biomarkers for next generation cell sorting.

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Massimo Vassalli

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

Yanling Lan

Research title:

3D cell models

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Miguel Pineda

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

Connie McFadden

Research title:

Bioengineering Living Paint and Exploring Its Acoustic Effects

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Kimia Witte

Lorna Merrett

Research title:

(Bio)active matter-based computation

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Kimia Witte

Muhammed-Rashid Patel

Research title:

Bone regeneration using ultrasound generated beat frequencies

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Peter Childs

Ioanna Rigou

Research title:

Using Living Biointerfaces to control hMSCs Adhesion via Integrin-Fibronectin Interaction

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

Research title:

Engineered living biomaterials in humanised multiphasic in vitro models

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

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

Rui Pedro Pereira Sousa

Research title:

Mechanosensitivity of Osteoporotic Stem Cells for Diagnosis and Treatment of Osteoporosis

1^st Supervisor:

Dr Peter Childs

Luke Sprakes

Research title:

Developing high energy ECR-IBD with a particular focus on ultra-thin coatings for biomedical applications

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Stuart Reid

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

Xally Valencia

Research title:

Designing animal-free organoids based on engineered vegetables and protein crystals

1^st Supervisor:

Prof Massimo Vassalli