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!

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.”