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Professor Molly Stevens
m.stevens@imperial.ac.uk
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Molly Stevens is currently Professor of Biomedical Materials and Regenerative Medicine and the Research Director for Biomedical Material Sciences in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering.
She joined Imperial in 2004 after a Postdoctoral training in the field of tissue engineering with Professor Robert Langer in the Chemical Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Prior to this she graduated from Bath University with a First Class Honours degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences and was then awarded a PhD in biophysical investigations of specific biomolecular interactions and single biomolecule mechanics from the Laboratory of Biophysics and Surface Analysis at the University of Nottingham (2000). In 2010 she was recognised by The Times as one of the top ten scientists under the age of 40 and also received the Polymer International-IUPAC award for creativity in polymer science, the Rosenhain medal and the Norman Heatley Prize for Interdisciplinary research from the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2009 she was awarded the Jean Leray Award from the European Society for Biomaterials, in 2007 the prestigious Conference Science Medal from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and in 2005 the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Engineering. She has also recently been recognised by the TR100, a compilation of the top innovators, under the age of 35, who are transforming technology - and the world with their work. Her previous awards include the Ronald Belcher Memorial Lecture Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry (2000) and both the Janssen Prize and the UpJohn Prize for academic excellence and research.
She has a large and extremely multidisciplinary research group of students and postdocs/fellows. Research in regenerative medicine within her group includes the directed differentiation of stem cells, the design of novel bioactive scaffolds and new approaches towards tissue regeneration. She has developed novel approaches to tissue engineering that are likely to prove very powerful in the engineering of large quantities of human mature bone for autologous transplantation as well as other vital organs such as liver and pancreas, which have proven elusive with other approaches. This has led to moves to commercialise the technology and set-up a clinical trial for bone regeneration in humans. In the field of nanotechnology the group has current research efforts in exploiting specific biomolecular recognition and self-assembly mechanisms to create new dynamic nano-materials, biosensors and drug delivery systems. Recent efforts by the Stevens group in peptide-functionalised nanoparticles for enzyme biosensing have enabled the most sensitive facile enzyme detection to date and have a host of applications across diseases ranging from cancer to global health applications.
Honours & Awards:
EU-40 Prize, The European Materials Research Society, 2012
Griffith Medal and Prize, Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining, 2012
Clifford Paterson Lecture Award, The Royal Society, 2012
Wain Medal Award Lecture, University of Kent, 2011
Outstanding Young Investigator Award, Controlled Release Society, 2011
Rosenhain Medal and Prize, IOM3, 2010
Norman Heatley Award, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2010
IUPAC - Polymer International Award for Creativity in Polymer Science, IUPAC - Polymer International, 2010
ACES Amgen Life Sciences Award, Science Business Innovation Board, 2009
Jean Leray Award, European Society for Biomaterials, 2009
Tissue and Cell Engineering Society Young Investigator Award, Tissue and Cell Engineering Society, 2007
Science Medal, Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 2006
Philip Leverhulme Prize, Leverhulme Trust, 2005
TR100 (Top 100 Young Innovators), Technology Review, 2004
Ronald Belcher Memorial Lecture Award, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2000
Upjohn Award, Upjohn Pharmaceuticals, 1996
Janssen Prize, University of Bath, 1995
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Miss Melissa Bovis
UROP student in Stevens' Group in 2007 |
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Dr Sangwon Chung
Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Stevens' group November 2010 - February 2012 researching fibrous composite scaffolds for osteochondral regeneration
Previously:
PhD in Fiber & Polymer Science and Biomedical Engineering, North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA [2007-2010]
Marie Curie Fellow, 3B's Research Group (Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics), University of Minho, Portugal [2006-2007]
MS in Textile Technology, North Carolina State University, USA [2004-2006]
BS in Clothing and Textiles, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea [2000-2004] |
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Dr Silvia Goldoni
Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Stevens’ Group from 2010 - 2012 investigating cell signalling regulated by mechano-sensing of substrates and scaffolds for tissue engineering.
Previously:
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA studying the role of the extracellular matrix proteoglycan decorin in tumour growth and its potential as a therapeutic against malignancies.
Doctor in Medical Biotechnology, Universita’ di Modena, Italy
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Mr James Liew
Exchange Student in Stevens' Group in 2008-2009 conducting research project into Protease Detection based on Microcantilever Array Technology in collaboration with the London Centre for Nanotechnology |
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Mr Michael Losak
Summer student from Yale conducting research project into electrospun scaffolds for tissue regeneration
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