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Stevens Group and collaborators publish in Nature
Stevens Group members Chris Wood and Michael Thomas, as joint first authors, with collaborators from the i-sense consortium Jobie Budd, Tivani Mashamba-Thompson, Kobus Herbst, Deenan Pillay, Rosanna Peeling, Anne Johnson and Rachel McKendry, have published a review in Nature on how mobile health can be implemented in the field in Africa.
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Tom Whittaker Graduates with a PhD
Congratulations to Tom who has graduated from the Stevens Group with a PhD entitled "Investigating exosomes for regenerative medicine: development of purification techniques and novel analytical strategies for assessment of potency".
Prof Molly Stevens is elected into the National Academy of Engineering
Prof Molly Stevens has been elected a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Engineering for her work on materials-based approaches to tissue regeneration and biosensing. Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer, and Molly was one of only 18 Foreign Members to be elected in 2019.
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Lucia Massi Graduates with a PhD
Congratulations to Lucia who has graduated from the Stevens Group with a PhD entitled “Enzyme and temperature dual-responsive polymer nanostructures towards the treatment of osteoarthritis.”
Colleen Loynachan Graduates with a PhD
Congratulations to Colleen who has graduated from the Stevens Group with a PhD entitled “Catalytic Nanomaterials for Amplified Biosensing.”
Arianna Ferrini elected as Treasurer for TERMIS-SYIS
Congratulations to Stevens Group PhD student Arianna Ferrini, who has been elected as Treasurer of the TERMIS-EU SYIS (Student and Young Investigators) Section. Her term is a 3-year role, starting from 1 Jan 2019. Congrats, Arianna!
Amanda Diez Fernandez graduates with PhD
Congratulations to Amanda who has graduated from the Stevens Group with a PhD entitled “Drug Release from a Quantum Rattle.” Amanda was jointly co-supervised with Prof Mike Finnis.
Vincent Leonardo graduates with PhD
Congratulations to Vincent who has graduated from the Stevens Group with a PhD entitled “Nanoneedle-based gene transfer for cardiac regeneration and biophysical regulation of cellular state.”
Stevens Group member Allie Speidel wins Poster Prize
Congratulations to Stevens Group member Allie Speidel for winning the Best Poster Presentation Prize at “From Tissue to Motion” conference at the Karolinska Institutet. Allie presented her work entitled “Characterizing the tissue-material interface during wound healing”, co-authored by Stevens Group members Annina Steinbech, Isaac Pence, Hélène Autefage, and Molly Stevens and collaborators Juha Ojala, Michaela Asp, Fredrik Salmén, Annelie Mollbrink, Susanna Lundström, Massimiliano Gaetani, Yuanyuan Han, Klaus Leifer, and Joakim Lundeberg. Congrats Allie!
Prof Molly Stevens features in 2018 Highly Cited Researchers list
Prof Stevens was listed in the Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers 2018 list in the category of Cross-science. The list recognizes exceptional research performance demonstrated by the production of multiple highly cited papers.
Anika Nagelkerke has been appointed as Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen
Congratulations to Anika Nagelkerke who is now Assistant Professor (tenure track) at the Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Congrats Anika!
Molly Stevens co-organises ‘Delivering novel therapies in the 21st century’
Molly Stevens co-organised the event ‘Delivering novel therapies in the 21st century’ held at the Royal Society on October 24-25 2018. The event included internationally recognised speakers who discussed recent scientific advances in therapeutic modalities and delivery.
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Raman spectroscopy protocol analyses individual nanoparticles published in Nature Communications
The Stevens Group’s latest Nature Communications article entitled “Single Particle Automated Raman Trapping Analysis" reports on how Raman spectroscopy can be exploited to analyse nanoparticles on a single particle basis, without the need for labelling steps or sequential imaging steps, using a technique called SPARTATM. Stevens Group members Jelle Penders, Isaac Pence, Conor Horgan, Mads Bergholt, Chris Wood, Adrian Najer, Ulrike Kauscher and Anika Nagelkerke all contributed in a terrific team effort. Well done!
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Carolyn Ibsen has been appointed Assistant Professor at Oregon Health and Science University
Congratulations to Stevens Group member Carolyn Ibsen who is now an Assistant Professor at Oregon Health and Science University. Congratulations Carolyn!
Amy Gelmi has been appointed as Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow at RMIT
Congratulations to Stevens Group member Amy Gelmi who is now a Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow at RMIT in Australia! This 4-year Fellowship supports her setting up her independent group. Congratulations Amy!
Ye Wang Graduates with a PhD
Congratulations to Ye who has graduated from the Stevens Group with a PhD entitled “Development of Nucleic Acid-Based Nanoplatforms For Applications In Disease Diagnostics and The Study of Nanomaterials-Protein Interaction.”
Stevens Group members awarded at Postdoc and Fellows Symposium
Stevens Group members won awards at this year’s Postdoc and Fellows Symposium in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London. Dr Elena Moroz-Omori won the Best Scientific Content Award for her talk, Dr Stacey Skaalure won the Best Scientific Content Award for his poster, and Dr Daniel Hachim won the Best Presented Poster Award. Congrats to all three!
Chris Spicer has been appointed Lecturer at the University of York
Congratulations to Stevens Group Project Leader Chris Spicer who is now a Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at the University of York. Congratulations Chris!
Hyejeong Seong awarded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship
Dr Hyejeong Seong has been awarded a very prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship from H2020, in which she will develop electroactive nanostructured patterns. Congrats Hyejeong!
Sahana Gopal Graduates with a PhD
Congratulations to Sahana who has graduated from the Stevens Group with a PhD entitled “New strategies for detailed visualisation and analysis of stem cell-material interactions.”