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!

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.

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.”

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!

Dr Stuart Higgins led a team including Stevens Group member Dr Akemi Nogiwa-Valdez, in an outreach programme called "Science in the Supermarket”, a trial campaign to promote studying science, technology, engineering and medicine subjects to young people, particularly in Somerset and the West Country.
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Congratulations to Stevens Group member Arianna Ferrini for winning Third Prize in Imperial College’s PhD Summer Showcase Poster Competition. Congrats Arianna!

Congratulations to Stevens Group member Arianna Ferrini for winning Best Oral Presentation Prize at the National Heart and Lung Institute’s (NHLI) Postgraduate Research Day. Congrats Arianna!

Congratulations to Stevens Group member Dr James Armstrong for being selected as a recipient of a prestigious UKRI Fellowship, which supports James’s goals of creating engineered tissue constructs and controlling cell behaviour using remote ultrasound stimuli. As a UKRI Fellow, James’s research activities are supported for 3 years from May 2018 – congrats, James!

Congratulations to Stevens Group member Nayoung Kim who won 1st Prize for her poster entitled “Functionalised plasmonic nanoarray for multidimensional label-free surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy signatures in biological environments”, based on work from Stevens Group members Nayoung Kim, Michael Thomas, Mads Bergholt, Hyejeong Seong, Anika Nagelkerke and Isaac Pence, at this year’s Postgraduate Research Day held at Imperial College London. Congrats Nayoung and to the team!

Congratulations to Stevens Group member James Armstrong for winning Best Oral Presentation at the Arthritis Research UK Fellows Meeting 2018 held in Loughborough, UK on 15-16 March 2018 for his talk entitled “Remote field engineering of musculoskeletal tissue constructs”. James delivered his talk on his Fellowship held in the Stevens programme, focusing on the use if externally applied fields to guide the cellular organisation during tissue engineering. Congrats James!

Congratulations to Jane who has graduated from the Stevens Group with a PhD entitled “Biophysical regulations in neural development.”