Congratulations to Stevens Group member Paresh Parmar for winning Best Poster Award at the 2016 MRS Fall Meeting for his poster “Collagen-mimetic peptide-modifiable hydrogels for articular cartilage regeneration”. Congrats Paresh!

Congratulations to Karla who has graduated from The Stevens Group with a PhD entitled “Multivalent biological interactions for the detection and inhibition of HIV-1 protease.”

Congratulations to Stevens Group member Dr Marsilea Harrison for being awarded the Freemasons Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for her postdoctoral project with Profs Stevens and Boutelle on tissue engineering. Congrats Marsilea!

Congratulations to Stevens Group member Dr James Armstrong for being awarded an Arthritis Research UK Fellowship for his postdoctoral project in which he aims to design innovative approaches to engineer cartilage tissues for applications in osteoarthritic joint repair. Congrats James!

Congratulations to Jun Hui who has graduated from The Stevens Group with a PhD entitled “Development of novel biosensing and diagnostic platforms using nanoparticle complexes.”

Congratulations to Stevens Group member Dr Robert Chapman for being awarded a University of New South Wales Vice-Chancellor’s Career Development Fellowship! Rob was selected for this highly competitive scheme to pursue innovative polymerisation techniques. Congrats, Rob!

Congratulations to Carolyn Ibsen, who was awarded a Whitaker Fellowship based on her proposal entitled “Using Microbubbles and Ultrasound to Overcome Diffusional Barriers in Tissue Engineering Scaffolds”, to conduct research on new materials for tissue engineering applications within the Stevens Group. Congrats Carolyn!

Congratulations to Rona Chandrawati who has been appointed as a Lecturer in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Sydney, where she will begin in October! Her research programme will investigate innovative nanomaterials for their biomedical applications, amongst other exciting activities. Congratulations Rona!

Congratulations to Lesley Chow who is now an Assistant Professor at Lehigh University in the States! She is starting her independent academic career following her postdoctoral research with us focusing on biofunctionalising scaffolds with peptides that specifically bind to glycosaminoglycans for applications in tissue engineering. Congratulations Lesley!

Congratulations to Sergio Bertazzo who has secured a Lecturer position at the University College London, where he will continue his research using electron microscopic-based methods to investigate the life sciences. His research programme will expand upon his exciting findings of biomineralised particles in human aortic tissues, conducted during his postdoctoral research while in the Stevens Group. Congrats Sergio!

Karla-Luise Herpoldt has been awarded the Washington Research Foundation's Innovation Fellowship to work with Profs David Baker and Patrick Stayton at the University of Washington for her postdoc! She will be using her expertise in proteases and other proteins to design pH responsive protein-based nanoparticles capable of delivering polymer-prodrugs. Congratulations Karla!

Congratulations to Damia Mawad who has been appointed as a Faculty member in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Australia! Her research programme will include exciting activities such as investigating conducting polymers for applications in regenerative medicine. Congratulations Damia!

Congratulations to Stevens Group members Colleen Loynachan and Harriet Gliddon, whose posters "Point-of-Care Assays Based on Enzyme Mimetic Nanoparticles" and “Shining a light on TB: Engineering a fluorescent nanoparticle-based test for tuberculosis” won First and Fourth Place in the Poster Competition of this summer’s i-sense Biannual Meeting. Congratulations to both!

Congratulations to Stevens Group member Amanda Diez Fernandez, who has won the Best Poster Prize for her poster entitled “Structures and Processes in a Quantum Rattle” at the Annual Conference of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Theory and Simulation of Materials at Imperial College. Congrats Amanda!

Congratulations to Dr Christopher Grigsby, who has been awarded a Whitaker International Fellowship, entitled “Nonviral reprogramming of fibroblasts to dopaminergic neurons: cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease”, to join the Stevens Group. Congrats Chris!

Rachael Harrison was awarded her Diploma following a prestigious Blond One Year Research Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of England for her research performed within the Stevens Group. Congrats Rachael!

Stevens Group members Polina Brangel, Gregor Fuhrmann, Karla-Luise Herpoldt, Elena Littmann and Anu Solanki were selected to present their work at the annual SET for Britain poster competition. This highly competitive national event invites leading early career researchers to present their work to MPs in Westminster. The group were represented in the Biology and Biomedical Sciences category and the Engineering category, making up 5 out of 120 posters chosen from across the UK. Congrats to all!

Michaella Kapnisi has been awarded the Best Poster Prize at the BioEl2015 International Winterschool Kirchberg in Tirol, Austria for her project entitled "Auxetic micropatterning of a cell adhesive-conductive composite for cardiac tissue engineering." Congrats Kella!