Congratulations to Jenny Puetzer who is now an Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in the States! She is starting her independent academic career following her postdoctoral research with us focusing on the design and characterization of biomimetic functionalized scaffolds for osteochondral and other engineered tissues. Congratulations Jenny!

Congratulations to PhD student Luke Salter, jointly supervised with Profs Martin Heeney and Natalie Stingelin, for winning joint 1st prize for his talk “Well defined supramolecular and covalent conductive polymers for cardiac tissue engineering” at the Plastic Electronics Winter School 2018 in Bergun, Switzerland from 22-26 January 2018. Congrats Luke!

Congratulations to Katie who has graduated from the Stevens Group with a PhD entitled “Microscopy of interactions at the cell-material and cell-matrix interface."

Congratulations to Kella who has graduated with a PhD entitled “Conductive biomaterials with an auxetic design for treating myocardial infarctions”.

Congratulations to Shweta who has graduated from the Stevens Group with a PhD entitled “Nanoscale characterisation of cardiovascular tissue calcification.”

Congratulations to Stevens Group member Arianna Ferrini for winning the Best Poster Presentation Prize at the Future Investigators of Regenerative Medicine (FIRM) 2017 in Girona, Spain. Co-supervised by Prof Nadia Rosenthal, Arianna presented her work entitled “Evaluation of Cardiac Differentiation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (hiPSCs) under Acidic pH”, co-authored by Limor Zwi-Dantsis, Nadia Rosenthal and Molly Stevens. Congrats Arianna!

Congratulations to Stevens Group members Jelle Penders and Conor Horgan, who were voted Best Presentation at the Nanomed consortium, an H2020 ITN focusing on innovative nanomedicines (grant no. 676137). Congrats to Conor and Jelle!

Congrats to Stevens Group members Stuart Higgins, James Armstrong and Amy Gelmi for winning awards for Best Talk and Poster at this year’s Postgrad Day at Imperial. Congrats to all! Congratulations to Andrea Serio who is now a Lecturer at King’s College London! He is starting his independent academic career following his postdoctoral research with us focusing on developing in vitro engineered functional networks of human pluripotent cells derived neurons. Congratulations Andrea!

Congratulations to Nadav Amdursky who is now an Assistant Professor at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology! He is starting his independent academic career following his postdoctoral research with us researching the electrical conductivity via biological structures. Congratulations Nadav!

Congratulations to Andrea Serio who is now a Lecturer at King’s College London! He is starting his independent academic career following his postdoctoral research with us focusing on developing in vitro engineered functional networks of human pluripotent cells derived neurons. Congratulations Andrea!

Stevens Group member Dr Jenny Puetzer has won the UKRMP Special Merit Prize based on her activities within the United Kingdom Regenerative Medicine Platform “Acellular Technologies” Hub. This award recognises her for her demonstrating outstanding activity in exhibiting the ethos of the UKRMP Hubs. Congrats Jenny!
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Dr Mattias Björnmalm has been awarded a very prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship from H2020, in which he will research how nanoparticles behave under physiological conditions. Congrats Mattias!

Dr Tim Keane has been awarded a very prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship from H2020, in which he will implement materials-based strategies for applications in tissue repair. Congrats Tim!

Congratulations to Shaodong Zhang who is now an Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University! He is starting his independent academic career following his postdoctoral research with us focusing on nanomaterial-based drug delivery systems. Congratulations Shaodong!

For over 8 consecutive years, the Stevens Group again hosted the London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF) on July 28th. The LIYSF comprises gifted young students, who saw a lecture from Anika Nagelkerke and demos on electrical monitoring of tissues (Mars Harrison), malaria (Adrian Najer), cardiac cells (Limor Zwi-Dantsis), Raman spectroscopy (Conor Horgan), acoustic manipulation of cells (James Armstrong), nanomaterials/biosensing (Chris Wood), and polymer chemistry/materials (Chris Spicer). The group is featured on the LIYSF’s 2017 promotional video and blog.

Congratulations to Christine who has graduated from the Stevens Group with a PhD entitled “Investigating Type 2 Diabetes Related Biosensing and Amyloid Peptide Fibrillation.”

Charis Kallepitis wins the McLean Medal for the best journal paper following his publication in Nature Communications. [Nature Communications Article]

Coline Jumeaux and Paresh Parmar each received one of two Larry Hench Biomaterials Prizes in recognition of excellence in a PhD in a Biomaterials related subject, named in honour of Professor Larry L. Hench.

Congratulations to Astrid who has graduated from the Stevens Group with a PhD entitled “Solid state processing of organic semiconducting polymer blends”.

Stevens Group members Stephanie Maynard and Michele Becce have won prizes for their talk "Super-resolution microscopy of receptor nano-clustering" and poster "Tip-functionalized silicon nanoneedles for localized tip enhanced Raman spectroscopy". Congrats, Steph and Michele!