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Kasia's New Paper on Neural Interface Biomaterials Published in Scientific Reports

By providing a bidirectional communication channel between neural tissues and a biomedical device, it is envisaged that neural interfaces...

Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Funding Awarded to Marc Fernandez to Develop His PhD Work Into

Funding has been approved by Enterprise Ireland to Marc Fernandez to further develop his PhD research at the Biggs Lab into a synthetic...

New Paper by Ghazal Tadayyon on the Development of a Resorbable Strain Sensor Published in Materials

Biodegradable strain sensors able to undergo controlled degradation following implantation have recently received significant interest as...

Dr Adriona Kelly Awarded the Ph.D Degree Following a Successful Thesis Defence

Adriona Kelly was awarded the Ph.D degree after successfully defending her thesis on February 28th, 2020. Adriona was co-supervised by...

New Collaborative Paper with Matthew Dalby and Team on Nanovibrational Stimulation of Stem Cells

There is a pressing clinical need to develop cell-based bone therapies due to a lack of viable, autologous bone grafts and a growing...

Alexandre Trotier Receives Best Rapid-Fire Presentation Award at Frontiers in Traumatic Brain Injury

The Frontiers in Traumatic Brain Injury 2020 (FiTBI2020) conference was hosted online on the 16th of June 2020 to showcase the current...

Funding Awarded For EPSRC-SFI 2018 Centre for Doctoral Training - LifETIME (Engineered Tissues for D

Funding has been approved by SFI and the EPSRC for an new centre for doctoral training (CDT), a partnership between the University of...

New Paper by katarzyna krukiewicz on Low resistance, highly corrugated structures based on poly (3,

A Conjugated polymers have gained significant interest as highly conducting organic materials with versatile surface morphology. In this...

Alex Trotier and James Britton Receive Awards at TERMIS EU Meeting in Rhodes

The TERMIS-EU 2019 meeting was held from the 27th to the 31st of May 2019 at Rhodes, Greece. The theme of TERMIS this year was ‘Tissue...

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Marc Fernandez was awarded the Ph.D degree after successfully defending his thesis on September 4th, 2019. Marc was co-supervised by Prof...