Our Materials for Health Lab, is developing advanced materials for transformative sustainable healthcare. Specifically, to develop materials that can detect and diagnose the presence of disease at point-of-care. Health and Well-being is the third goal of the UN Sustainability Development Goals, and our research is seeking to contribute to sustaining healthcare, democratising healthcare and tackling the ever-increasing threat of antimicrobial resistance.
Research Topics
Material developments ongoing for diagnostic and therapeutic applications:
Materials for Bacterial Infection Detection
- Epitope imprinted polymers (artificial antibody)
Materials for Early Cancer Detection
- Bioconjugation of biodegradable polymers for cancerous epitope detection
Materials for Minimally Invasive Detection
- Hydrogel microneedles development
- Imprinted conductive nanoneedles
Materials for Wound Dressings
- Therapeutic composite fibres
- De novo polypeptide fibres
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