Outreach

Award of prestigious Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship

Outreach

26 June, 2025

Dr Garry Laverty, an academic from the School of Pharmacy at Queen’s University Belfast, has been awarded a prestigious Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship for 2025. This Fellowship, awarded by the Royal Society and supported by the Leverhulme Trust, is one of only seven awarded each year to academics across the natural sciences. […]

ISIS UK Science Roadshow in Belfast, 27 March 2024

Outreach

08 February, 2024

We will be presenting our neutron scattering work and how we use these exciting methods to characterise our peptide drug delivery systems at the ISIS 40th Science Roadshow in Belfast . This forms part of a series of events throughout 2024 with programmes that are intended to cover a diverse range of scientific interests and […]

Advanced Science News Coverage and Advanced Healthcare Materials paper

General

08 June, 2023

Our recent research into using peptide hydrogels as long-acting injectable implants for HIV/AIDS drug delivery has be covered by Advanced Science News. This provides an oversight of our most recent publication within Advanced Healthcare Materials. A link to both can be found below: Advanced Science News Advanced Healthcare Materials

Get your tickets for the NI Science Festival: Gel Jabs: How Pioneering Hydrogels Fight Infection and Disease

Education

23 January, 2023

We will be presenting a talk on how we are researching our peptide hydrogels as future medicines at the NI Science Saturday on 25th February 2023 (11 – 12pm) in Lecture Theatre 2, Medical Biology Centre (Queen’s University Belfast, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast, BT9 7BL). Click here to get your tickets All are welcome to this […]

Researcher Live! Podcast

Outreach

14 June, 2022

We will be presenting our hydrogel and nanotube drug delivery work on 10am (Ireland/UK time) Thursday June 23rd! via the Researcher Live! podcast. Our talk forms part of their month-long series of talks on Peptide Therapeutics: disease screening and drug design. Anyone that is interested can register for free using the link below: https://researcher-app.com/paper/11299010 […]

Our EPSRC research selected as case study

Outreach

14 May, 2021

Our research into long-acting peptide hydrogel drug delivery implants has been selected as a case study by the EPSRC for their Developing New Therapies Grand Challenge. Thanks to all of those involved in this multidisciplinary project and it’s great to see our work moving forward towards future use in patients. Please find a link to the […]

Research Group receive Innovate UK ICURe SETsquared Award

Outreach

24 February, 2021

We are delighted to be currently taking part in the UKRI Innovate UK ICURe SETsquared Cohort 32 (32-08 / 520268133: £30,000). This programme is allowing us to market validate our peptide hydrogel technology in a variety of applications both within drug delivery and the wider commercial landscape. Our Research Associate Simon Porter is currently undertaking these […]

Group receive major funding from EPSRC to develop peptide-like hydrogels for combined HIV-contraceptive therapy

General

03 September, 2019

We are excited to announce support from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to develop of peptide-like hydrogels for use as a long-acting injectable delivery platform for combined HIV-contraceptive drug delivery. Total support (£766,542) will allow further development of our peptide-mimetic platforms in a key healthcare area in collaboration with our co-investigators at […]

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