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.

Yuming An

PhD student

Yuming work involves tailoring our peptide-mimetic hydrogels to achieve long-acting drug delivery with multiple HIV and contraceptive drugs

Han Sun

Han Sun is tailoring our peptide-mimetic gels for long-acting drug delivery