Congratulations to Amanda who has graduated from the Stevens Group with a PhD entitled “Characterisation of Mineralised Tissues with Raman Spectroscopy.”

Congratulations to Michael Albro who is now Research Assistant Professor at Boston University! He is starting his independent academic career following his postdoctoral research with us researching the role of transforming growth factor beta in articular cartilage repair and the development of engineered tissues. Congratulations Mike!

Dr Stacey Skaalure has been awarded a very prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship from H2020, in which she will design a hydrogel capable of delivering therapeutics upon the application of light. Congrats Stacey!

Visiting PhD student Gianpiero Valente won the Best Oral Communication prize, the top prize amongst more than 180 presentations, for his presentation based on work in collaboration with the Stevens Group at the Merck Young Chemists Symposium. Congrats Gianpiero!

Dr Mads Bergholt has been awarded the Edmund Optics Education Award from the Edmund Optics company. This award recognises the excellence in his research, personal commitment and personality. Congrats Mads!

Congratulations to Paola Campagnolo who is now Lecturer of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology at University of Surrey! She is starting her independent academic career following her postdoctoral research with us studying the interactions between stem cells and novels materials for the treatment of cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Congratulations Paola!

Nayoung Kim has been awarded joint 1st place for the AWE William Penney Prize, which is an annual award to students on the MSc Advanced Materials course in the Department of Materials for the best project report. Congrats Nayoung!

Congratulations to Paresh who has graduated from The Stevens Group with a PhD entitled “Collagen-mimetic peptide-modifiable scaffolds for musculoskeletal tissue regeneration.”

Harriet Gliddon has won a Student Award for Outstanding Achievement for her excellence in extramural activities that brings credit to Imperial College London. Harriet was one of only six winners of this prestigious prize administered by Imperial. Congrats Harriet!

Congratulations to Ciro Chiappini who is now Lecturer in Nanomaterials & Biointerfaces at King’s College London! He is starting his independent academic career following his postdoctoral research with us researching the use of microfabricated biomaterials for cancer theranostics. Congratulations Ciro!

Congratulations to Anu who has graduated from The Stevens Group with a PhD entitled “Development of cobalt bioactive glasses for wound healing applications.”

Congratulations to Elena who has graduated from The Stevens Group with a PhD entitled “Exploring the Influence of Bioactive Glasses on Stem Cells for Cartilage Tissue Engineering.”

Stevens Group PhD students Colleen Loynachan, Polina Brangel and Ye Wang won the top 3 poster prizes at this year’s i-sense biannual meeting with their posters entitled “Point-of-Care Assays Based on Enzyme Mimetic Nanoparticles”, “Serological Surveillance of Human Ebola Virus Survivors Using a Novel Smartphone-based Point of Care Test” and “Amplified detection of miRNA for Influenza diagnostics using quantum dot and duplex specific nuclease”, respectively. Congrats to all three!

The Stevens Group has been awarded Imperial College’s President’s Award and Medal for Outstanding Research Team for their activities and accomplishments in research!

Dr Hanna Barriga has been awarded a very prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship from H2020 called “SMARTCUBES”, in which she will design innovative nanoparticles for the targeted delivery of protein therapeutics. Congrats Hanna!

Congratulations to Celia who has graduated from The Stevens Group with a PhD entitled “Organic Mixed Ionic/Electronic Conductors for Bioelectronics Applications.”

Congratulations to Stevens Group member Lucia Massi for winning Second Prize for her poster at the 2nd London Polymer Group Symposium! Lucia is studying innovative strategies that target the improvement of therapies for osteoarthritis. More information on the London Polymer Group Symposium can be found here and information on the H2020 ITN project “TargetCare”, which supports Lucia, can be found here.

Congratulations to Carina who has graduated from The Stevens Group with a PhD entitled “Nanomaterials for Intracellular Fluorescence Imaging and Sensing.”

Stevens Group member Dr Mads Bergholt has won the UKRMP Special Merit Prize based on his activities within the United Kingdom Regenerative Medicine Platform “Stem Cell Niche Hub” and “Acellular Material Technologies” Hubs. This award recognises him for his demonstrating outstanding activity in providing connectivity across the Hubs and Platform. Congrats Mads!

Stevens Group member Kella Kapnisi has won a prize for Public Speaking with her talk "An auxetic micropatterned patch, with mechanically tunable and conductive properties for treating myocardial infarctions" at the Postgraduate Day at Imperial College London. Congrats, Kella!