Akemi Nogiwa 30/07/2015 Akemi Nogiwa 30/07/2015

Karla-Luise Herpoldt awarded Washington Research Foundation’s Innovation Fellowship

Karla-Luise Herpoldt has been awarded the Washington Research Foundation's Innovation Fellowship to work with Profs David Baker and Patrick Stayton at the University of Washington for her postdoc! She will be using her expertise in proteases and other proteins to design pH responsive protein-based nanoparticles capable of delivering polymer-prodrugs. Congratulations Karla!

Akemi Nogiwa 22/07/2015 Akemi Nogiwa 22/07/2015

Damia Mawad has been appointed to Faculty at UNSW in Australia

Congratulations to Damia Mawad who has been appointed as a Faculty member in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Australia! Her research programme will include exciting activities such as investigating conducting polymers for applications in regenerative medicine. Congratulations Damia!

Akemi Nogiwa 08/07/2015 Akemi Nogiwa 08/07/2015

Harriet Gliddon and Colleen Loynachan Awarded Poster Prizes at i-sense Biannual Meeting

Congratulations to Stevens Group members Colleen Loynachan and Harriet Gliddon, whose posters "Point-of-Care Assays Based on Enzyme Mimetic Nanoparticles" and “Shining a light on TB: Engineering a fluorescent nanoparticle-based test for tuberculosis” won First and Fourth Place in the Poster Competition of this summer’s i-sense Biannual Meeting. Congratulations to both!

Akemi Nogiwa 17/06/2015 Akemi Nogiwa 17/06/2015

Amanda Diez Fernandez wins the Best Poster Prize

Congratulations to Stevens Group member Amanda Diez Fernandez, who has won the Best Poster Prize for her poster entitled “Structures and Processes in a Quantum Rattle” at the Annual Conference of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Theory and Simulation of Materials at Imperial College. Congrats Amanda!

Akemi Nogiwa 30/04/2015 Akemi Nogiwa 30/04/2015

Dr Chris Grigsby awarded Whitaker Fellowship

Congratulations to Dr Christopher Grigsby, who has been awarded a Whitaker International Fellowship, entitled “Nonviral reprogramming of fibroblasts to dopaminergic neurons: cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease”, to join the Stevens Group. Congrats Chris!

Akemi Nogiwa 30/03/2015 Akemi Nogiwa 30/03/2015

Nanoneedle-based approach demonstrates extraordinary delivery capabilities in cells and tissues

The Stevens Group’s latest Nature Materials article entitled “Biodegradable silicon nanoneedles delivering nucleic acids intracellularly induce localized in vivo neovascularization” reports an innovative nanomaterial-based device designed for intracellular delivery of sensitive cargoes. The paper by Chiappini et al in collaboration with HMRI describes how nanoneedles based on porous silicon can facilitate the delivery of nucleic acids (e.g. DNA and siRNA) in living cells and tissues non-destructively.
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Akemi Nogiwa 10/03/2015 Akemi Nogiwa 10/03/2015

Rachael Harrison awarded Diploma following her Blond One Year Research Fellowship

Rachael Harrison was awarded her Diploma following a prestigious Blond One Year Research Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of England for her research performed within the Stevens Group. Congrats Rachael!

Akemi Nogiwa 09/03/2015 Akemi Nogiwa 09/03/2015

Stevens Group members selected as finalists in SET for Britain

Stevens Group members Polina Brangel, Gregor Fuhrmann, Karla-Luise Herpoldt, Elena Littmann and Anu Solanki were selected to present their work at the annual SET for Britain poster competition. This highly competitive national event invites leading early career researchers to present their work to MPs in Westminster. The group were represented in the Biology and Biomedical Sciences category and the Engineering category, making up 5 out of 120 posters chosen from across the UK. Congrats to all!

Akemi Nogiwa 06/03/2015 Akemi Nogiwa 06/03/2015

Michaella Kapnisi awarded Best Poster Prize at BioEl2015

Michaella Kapnisi has been awarded the Best Poster Prize at the BioEl2015 International Winterschool Kirchberg in Tirol, Austria for her project entitled "Auxetic micropatterning of a cell adhesive-conductive composite for cardiac tissue engineering." Congrats Kella!

Akemi Nogiwa 17/02/2015 Akemi Nogiwa 17/02/2015

Allie Speidel wins prestigious Luce Scholarship

Akemi Nogiwa 17/02/2015 Akemi Nogiwa 17/02/2015

Nanomaterials-based System for Multimodel Imaging and Therapy of Tumors Published in PNAS

Stevens Group member Dr Mathew Hembury et al has published a study entitled “Gold-silica quantum rattles for multimodel imaging and therapy” in the latest issue of PNAS!