Nazia Mehrban
Designing smart biomaterials: from regenerative medicine to soft robots
15.11.2019
University College London
In this talk Nazia explained how she has used nature as her guide in creating materials that induce action potentials and synaptic activity in a neural network to materials that are anti-inflammatory upon implantation and even materials that can be used to create implantable soft robots.
More about Nazia: Google Scholar page LINK
Papers mentioned in the talk:
Dennis E. Discher,*, Paul Janmey, Yu-li Wang 2005 Tissue Cells Feel and Respond to the Stiffness of Their Substrate Science 310 (5751): 1139-1143
Peter M.Crapo, Thomas W.Gilbert. Stephen F.Badylak An overview of tissue and whole organ decellularization processes 2011 Biomaterials 32: 3233-3243.
K Wismayer, N Mehrban, J Bowen, M Birchall 2019 Improving cellular migration in tissue-engineered laryngeal scaffolds. The Journal of Laryngology & Otology 133 (2), 135-148
N Mehrban, J Bowen, A Tait, A Darbyshire, AK Virasami, MW Lowdell, ... 2018 Silsesquioxane polymer as a potential scaffold for laryngeal reconstruction. Materials Science and Engineering: C 92, 565-574
Nazia Mehrban Edgardo Abelardo Alexandra Wasmuth Kieran L. Hudson Leanne M. Mullen Andrew R. Thomson Martin A. Birchall Derek N. Woolfson 2014 Assessing Cellular Response to Functionalized α‐Helical Peptide Hydrogels Adv Healthcare Materials 3: 1387.
Y El Aziz, N Mehrban, PG Taylor, MA Birchall, J Bowen, AR Bassindale, ... 2017 Facile synthesis of novel hybrid POSS biomolecules via “Click” reactions. RSC Advances 7 (59), 37474-37477
N Mehrban, J Bowen. 2017 Monitoring biomineralization of biomaterials in vivo
Monitoring and Evaluation of Biomaterials and their Performance In Vivo, 81-110
Video's with:
Nazia explaining how to build a voicebox LINK:A day in the life of a Scientist: LINK