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!

Congrats to Harriet for winning the Next Generation: Global Health Innovator Prize and Best Video Prize at the Imperial College Institute for Global Health Innovation Student Challenges Competition. Congrats Harriet!

Congratulations to Allie who has graduated from The Stevens Group with a PhD entitled “Bioscaffold Engineering for Cardiac Progenitor Transplantation.”

Stevens Group member Dr Andrea Serio is this month’s featured researcher on the new website of the Imperial Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Network, which is co-led by Profs Sara Rankin, Sian Harding and Molly Stevens. Dr Paola Campagnolo, also a postdoc within the Stevens Group, organises regular events for this Network, which hosts world-leading researcher lectures at Imperial College.

Stevens Group PhD student Harriet Gliddon has been selected as one of the finalists of the Institute for Global Health Innovation Student Challenges Competition! Harriet has created a video called ‘Putting TB to the test’ that summarises her approach of creating nanomaterial-based biosensors capable of detecting biomarkers of tuberculosis. Congrats to Harriet, whose video has been selected as one of the top 6 entrees based on its excellent quality!

Stevens Group member Spencer Crowder was selected to present his work at this year’s SET for Britain poster competition. He will present his work to MPs in Westminster. SET for Britain is a highly competitive national competition that supports early career researchers to present their work is such a prestigious forum. Congrats Spencer!

Congratulations to Joe who has graduated from The Stevens Group with a PhD entitled “Development of Scaffolds Incorporating Zonal Complexity for Articular Cartilage Tissue Engineering.”

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!