Dr Garry Laverty
Principal Investigator
Garry graduated with a First Class Honours Masters degree (MPharm) from the School of Pharmacy at Queen's University Belfast in 2005 and a PhD in Pharmaceutics in 2010. After two years working for a Biotech company, Garry returned to the School as a Lecturer and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2020. Garry was previously a Visiting Researcher at Bing Xu’s lab (Brandeis University, Department of Chemistry), a world-leading group researching peptide nanomaterials.
Dr Sreekanth Pentlavalli
EPSRC funded Research Fellow
Sree is involved in the development of a novel peptide-mimetic hydrogel platform for use as a long-acting injectable drug delivery systems for diseases with poor medication adherence (e.g. HIV).
Dr Sophie Coulter
EPSRC funded Research Fellow
Sophie's work involes the study of peptide hydrogels as multifunctional microbicidal nanomaterials for HIV drug delivery. Sophie graduated with a First Class Honours Masters degree (MPHARM) from the School of Pharmacy at Queen's University Belfast in 2015.
Dr Emily Cross
MRC funded Research Fellow
Emily's is developing a peptide-mimetic hydrogel implant for the long-acting delivery of drugs enabling HIV (PrEP) pre-exposure prophylaxis (prevention)
Xin Huang
Masters student
Xin Huang is studying the ability of our peptide hydrogel materials to provide controlled drug delivery to tumours.
Yuming An
PhD student
Yuming work involves tailoring our peptide-mimetic hydrogels to achieve long-acting drug delivery for at least 28 days.
Simon Porter
Innovate UK/ICURe Research Associate
Simon focuses on characterising our peptide nanotube platforms for the delivery of drugs across biological barriers, including the blood brain barrrier and cancer cells. Simon also received a First Class Honours Masters degree (MPHARM) from the School of Pharmacy at Queen's University Belfast in 2014. Simon has taken up a Research Associate post in within our ICURe commercialisation project in January 2021
Shubhamkumar Baviskar
PhD Student
Shubhamkumar's work involves using of peptide-mimetic hydrogels as sustained drug delivery systems within the eye in collaboration with Dr Raj Thakur
Xinyu Zhao
PhD Student
Xinyu Zhao research involves the use of vaginal rings as multipurpose drug delivery systems with antimicrobial properties in collaboration with Prof Malcolm and Dr Boyd (School of Pharmacy)
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