Bio-nanotechnology

Professor of Chemical Biology, Deputy Director and Research Director (Bionanotechnology) in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering. 

His research group works on sensing and microanalytical devices with a particular focus on human and animal health.

Professor of Biophysics, Department of Medicine

Professor in Biomaterials, Department of Materials

Research work on process development of foamed gel-derived bioactive glass (the first 3D porous scaffold made from bioactive glass) and inorganic/ organic hybrids.

Professor in Bioimaging & Analysis, Department of Materials

Has extensive experience in using state-of-the-art analytical, aberration corrected high resolution and 3D electron microscopy techniques to image interfaces between radiation sensitive organic and inorganic materials.

 Fang Xie

Lecturer in Materials, Department of Materials

Research concerns novel nanomaterials synthesis and fabrication, and their applications in energy and life sciences.

Professor of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine 

Professor of Biomedical Materials and Regenerative Medicine, Research Director (Biomedical Material Sciences) in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering

Research is focused on both high quality fundamental science and translation for human health. 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.

Lecturer in Biomaterials, Department of Materials

Current research focus on Mechanisms of cell-nanomaterial interactions; nanomaterials for tissue engineering and immunology.

Lecturer in Materials, Department of Materials

Research interests involve synthesis and characterisation of polymers and their evaluation in a variety of applications like drug delivery, gene delivery, photothermal therapy.

Professor in Micro and Nanotechnology, Department of Chemistry

Research covers nanobiotechnology with an emphasis on the development of micro and nanofluidic devices for analytical and bio-analytical applications and ultra-high sensitivity optical detection techniques.

Reader in the Theory & Simulation of Materials, Department of Materials

Current research interests cover the dynamics of electrons out of equilibrium, and the thermodynamics of complex interfaces.

Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry

Research includes developing new mathematical and computational frameworks that can address the molecular basis (and loss) of biological function at different time and length scales.

Professor of Chemical and Structural Biology, Department of Life Sciences

Research focuses on unravelling the structural mechanisms by which pathogenic species attack their eukaryotic hosts.

Dr James Wilton-Ely

Senior Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry

Research is focused on nanomaterials with multiple surface units performing different functions. Many of these are based on molecular (d- and f-block) metal units for MRI contrast enhancement, PET imaging, optical imaging, targeting and therapy. These nanoscale systems are based on gold and iron oxide nanoparticles as well as nanorods and nanostars of gold. All materials are prepared and functionalised in our own laboratories. We also develop new attachment methodologies.

Research Fellow (Royal Society URF), Department of Chemistry

Lecturer, Department of Chemistry

Research is highly multidisciplinary and uses bioinspired approaches to synthesise targeted multi-functional polymeric nanomedicines capable of changing their surface or core properties in response to local or up-regulated disease markers for stimuli-responsive and spatiotemporally controlled biological drug delivery. These polymeric nanomedicines are synthesised using nanopolymerisation reactions in confined droplets. We also investigate nanomedicine bio-efficacy using biomimetic models with controlled environmental parameters for testing nanoparticle physicochemical properties. This facilitates a more dynamic biological mechanistic insight between nanoparticles and target cell populations.