2013

Michal successfully defended his 8 month VIVA report  entitled “Design and fabrication of a novel device for 3D patterning of hydrogels”.

The Mata Lab received an Innovation Grant titled from Queen Mary University of London. The project aims to create a high-throughput biomimetic system that would significantly improve the efficacy of bioactive molecules.

Esther successfully defended her PhD thesis titled: “Bioactive membrane scaffolds exhibiting physical and biomolecular signalling for tissue engineering” at University of Barcelona, Spain.

Alvaro gave a talk titled “Engineering of non-equilibrium systems for the next generation of biomaterials” at the First Queen Mary Chinese-British Students and Scholars Forum. London, Queen Mary, University of London, UK.

Michal participated in the ‘BLAMSS 2013 National Research Conference: Translational Medicine’ at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, UK.

Michal presented a poster entitled ‘Design and fabrication of a novel device for 3D patterning of hydrogels’ in the School of Engineering and Materials Science Research Graduate Poster Exhibit at QMUL, London, UK.

Esther published the paper titled “Bioactive membranes for bone regeneration applications: effect of physical and biomolecular signals on MSCs” in Acta Biomaterialia reporting  a membrane able to stimulate osteoblastic differentiation.

Ryan was accepted for an oral presentation titled “Modulating the biochemical environment of a HA-based thermo-reversible hydrogel with integrin binding dendrimers” at the European Society of Biomaterials Conference 2013 in Madrid, Spain.

Esther was accepted for an oral presentation titled “Osteoblastic differentiation, mineralization and bone regeneration by a bioactive protein-based membrane” at the symposium of AO Exploratory Research 2013 in Davos, Switzerland.

Alvaro gave a talk titled “Hierarchical bioengineering: from dynamic self-assembly to 3D patterning” at the Seminar Series of the Institute of Bioengineering at Queen Mary, University of London.

Karla received a “Scholarship Award” at the Summer School on Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine in Riva del Garda, Italy for her talk:  “Self-organization and hierarchical morphogenesis of a hybrid supramolecular system”.

Maria Jesus published the paper titled “Fabrication of hierarchical micro-nanotopographies for cell attachment studies” in Nanotechnology. The paper reports the competitive effect of micro vs nanotopographie on cell adhesion and migration.