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Exciting new lab facilities


We are currently moving into our new lab facilities in the School of Pharmacy’s McClay Research Centre, including a new synthesis and microbiology lab.

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Advanced Science News Coverage and Advanced Healthcare Materials paper

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    

Our EPSRC research selected as case study

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 […]

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

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 […]

2021 Soft Matter Emerging Investigators: Unravelling the antimicrobial activity of peptide hydrogel systems: current and future perspectives

Our latest review paper has been published in the 2021 Soft Matter Emerging Investigators issue. If you have an interest in peptide hydrogels or hydrogels within antimicrobial applications then please do check it out here! We should hopefully have some exciting data to publish in this area in the coming months.  

We will be presenting at the 12th Global Drug Delivery & Formulation Virtual Summit 2021: 17th March 2021

Garry will be presenting an oral presentation, entitled Peptide Nanomaterials: The Future of Biomaterials and Drug Delivery, at 12th Global Drug Delivery & Formulation Virtual Summit 2021: Wednesday 17th March 2021 (11.50am Technology & Innovation case study section).   Hopefully you will have to opportunity look see our latest work within drug delivery! Further details on the […]

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