Biomedical Applications Division contacts
(Chair)
Professor of Materials Science
Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science
University of Cambridge
Pembroke Street
Cambridge CB2 3QZ
Tel. +44 (0)1223 334307
Prof. Serena Best is Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge. Educated at the University of Surrey, she received a BSc (Eng.) in 1986 with Upper Second Class Honours, followed by a PhD from the University of London (1990). Following a short post-doctoral period working in industry for the Cookson Group, she joined the Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Biomedical Materials in 1991. She has been internationally recognised for her work on bioceramics and in 1999, received the Jean Leray award from the European Society for Biomaterials. She is a Chartered Engineer through the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and a Founding Member of the UK Society for Biomaterials. Dr. Best is the Associate Editor for the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine and is a member of the Editorial Board of British Ceramic Transactions. She has published more than 80 papers.
Mrs Sue Dunkerton
(Secretary)
TWI Ltd
Granta Park
Gt Abington
Cambridge CB1 6AL
Tel 01223 891161
Fax 01223 891284
Sue Dunkerton is Manager of the Advanced Materials and Processes Group at TWI and is also Director of the Medical Devices Faraday Partnership. Within her area of activity, Sue leads work on the joining and coating of medical devices, including bone cements and echogenic coatings, as well as the interconnection and biocompatible packaging of electronic medical devices. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and a Board member of MedilinkEast.
Board members:
DePuy International Ltd.
St Anthony's Rd.
Leeds
LS11 8DT
Tel. +44 (113) 387 6065
Fax. +44 (113) 272 4198
Allan Ritchie is Vice President of Research & Development at DePuy International. His area of responsibility is the management of the Research & Development activity for DePuy within the business segments of Total Joint Replacement and Trauma. This covers all aspects of design including material choice biomechanical optimisation and factors surviving the survivability of the prosthesis. He is also responsible for external research activities including liasing with the university research community.
Smith & Nephew Group Research Centre
York Science Park
Heslington
York
YO10 5DF
Tel: 01904 824048
Fax: 01904 824004
Andrew Jackson is Research Programme Manager for the Endoscopy division of Smith & Nephew. Based at the Group Research Centre in York, UK, he is responsible for a research team focusing on long term product development in the areas of Biological and Non-invasive repair of sports medicine-related injuries and diseases. His background is in biology and biomaterials having a MA in Zoology and a PhD in biomimicry of natural ceramic composites.
Faculty of Science & Engineering
University of Brighton
Moulsecoomb
Brighton
BN2 4GJ
Tel 01323 642049
Fax 01323 642031
Andrew Lloyd is the Dean of the Faculty of Science & Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Materials at the University of Brighton. Professor Lloyd's research interests include the development and evaluation of novel drug delivery and biomaterial technologies. His research has focussed on the fields of ophthalmic, orthopaedic and cardiovascular biomedical materials, adsorbent-based technologies, and interfacial bioengineering. Further details are available at: http://www.brighton.ac.uk/pharmacy/research/groups/bm.html He is an advisor/consultant for a number of pharmaceutical and medical device companies. Professor Lloyd is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Professor Elizabeth (Liz) Tanner
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Glasgow
Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Liz Tanner is Professor of Biomedical Materials at the University of Glasgow. Her research involves the development and testing of materials for particularly bone replacement based on bioactive ceramic-polymer composites. She is a Fellow of both the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. She is the Biomedical Applications Division of IoM3 representative on the Royal Academy of Engineering UK Focus on Medical Engineering and AIME (Association of Institutions concerned with Medical Engineering).
Senior Lecturer
Department of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Bath
Bath
BA2 7AY
UK
Tel: 01225 386163
Fax: 01225 826098
Dr Irene Turner is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Bath. Dr Turner has an active interest in research into bone graft substitute materials, urinary catheters and coatings on tablets for the pharmaceutical industry. Dr Turner is responsible for the area of Biomaterials Research within the Centre for Orthopaedic Biomechanics based in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bath and contributes significantly to the teaching of the University's undergraduate degree programmes in Medical Engineering.
Biocompatibles UK Ltd.
Chapman House
Farnham Business Park
Weydon Lane
Farnham
Surrey
GU9 8QL
Tel: 01252 732819
Fax: 01252 732888
Andy Lewis is Research & Technology Director for Biocompatibles UK Ltd, a UK-based SME involved in biomaterials development and medical device manufacture. Andy directs projects within the Drug Delivery Division concerned with interventional therapies and in particular drug delivery from coronary stents and embolisation materials. He also coordinates the external research programmes with a number of academic collaborators and is named on over 60 scientific publications and patents in the fields of polymers and biomaterials. He has a BSc in Biochemistry & Chemistry, a PhD in Chemistry and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Dr David Gooch
The Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining
David Gooch is Chair of the Materials Science and Technology Division of the Institute; he is a Fellow of the Institute. David graduated in Materials Science from Cambridge in 1969 and gained his doctorate from Oxford in 1972, his thesis topic being the creep of ceramics. He then joined the Central Electricity Research Laboratories of the CEGB to work on the microstructure and properties of high temperature materials for power generation. During his time at CERL the positions he held included Head of the Mechanical Testing Laboratories and Chairman of the CEGB Remnant Life Task Force; at the time of privatisation of the electricity industry in 1992 he was head of the Structural Integrity Group. Following privatisation David worked for National Power on advanced and sustainable technologies for power generation. He now works as an independent consultant. He is the author of approximately 70 published papers.
Dr Brian E Kent BSc CChem FRSC
Brian Kent trained as an analytical chemist, and spent his career at the former Laboratory of the Government Chemist (now privatised as LGC) and at the DTI. He was a member of the research team which developed glass ionomer cements, now widely used in dentistry, and later became Head of the Laboratory`s Materials Technology Group. During 1990-1999 he was Manager of the LINK Medical Implants Programme. It was during this period that he initiated The Biomaterials Partnership at LGC, and also approached the DTI to begin discussions which led to the establishment of that Department's Building up Biomaterials Programme. Now semi-retired, he undertakes occasional activities in connection both with the Medical Devices Faraday Partnership and the former DTI.
IRC in Biomedical Materials
Queen Mary,
University of London
Mile End Road
London, E1 4NS
Tel: 020 7882 5151
Fax: 020 8983 1799
Professor P Vadgama is currently Director of the IRC in Biomedical Materials, Queen Mary, University of London and Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, Queen Mary's School of Medicine & Dentistry. Head of Service in the Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Barts and the Royal London NHS Trust.
His particular interest is in biosensors where he has developed permselective, biocompatible and biomimetic polymeric membranes capable of stable transduction in whole blood and tissue. Both in vivo and in vitro work has been undertaken, including the use of miniaturised devices for glucose and lactate monitoring, immunosensing and interrogation of tissue-material interactions.
Current research work includes interfacial problems relating to sensor/biomaterial contact with the biomatrix, and the generalisable insights that may emerge from this. Projects include: Spider silk for tissue engineering, materials for implantable electronic devices, microfluidic based separation, cell-surface interactions, biomaterial degradation dynamics, conducting polymers as biomaterials, tissue bioreactor design, cochlear implant electrodes.
Professor John Nicholson
CChem FRSC CSci FIMMM
John Nicholson is Professor of Biomaterials Chemistry at the University of Greenwich, based at their Medway campus. His research interests lie in the field of biomedical cements for dental and orthopaedic use, and he has published and lectured widely on this topic. A former President of the UK Society for Biomaterials, Professor Nicholson has published approximately 150 papers, and four books, including "The chemistry of medical and dental materials" (RSC, Cambridge).
LGC
Queens Road
Teddington
Middlesex
TW11 0LY
Tel: 020 8943 7345
Julian Braybrook is Head of Measurement R&D within the Research and Technology Division of LGC, the UK's designated National Metrology Institute for chemical and bio-analytical measurement. A chemist by training, his role now lies predominantly in research innovation and management, underpinning the development and translation of some of the most challenging measurements of importance to the UK's industrial competitiveness and quality of life. This covers (bio-)pharmaceutical, diagnostic, security and healthcare technologies, and particularly the area of regenerative medicine, incorporating the more traditional biomaterials applications and the emerging tissue engineering and cell-based therapy applications. He has published numerous scientific publications and edited a book. He is a member of several British, European and international Standards Committees in the area of biological evaluation of medical devices, and a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry Biomaterials Committee. Until recently he was senior technical and financial adviser for biomaterial/medical device projects funded under the EU Framework Programmes. He is a Chartered Chemist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Dr Julian Jones PhD DIC Meng (OXon.) FIMMM
Senior Lecturer
Department of Materials
Imperial College London
South Kensington Campus
Londo SW7 2AZ
Tel: +44 (0) 20 75946749
Fax: +44 (0) 20 75946757
Dr. Julian Jones is a Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. Hiswork focuses on the development, characterization (including 3D imaging
and image analysis) of novel bioactive tissue scaffolds and their
cellular response. His group have developed novel bioactive glasses and
inorganic/ organic hybrid scaffolds with tailorable properties. His
achievements have been recognized by the Tissue and Cell Engineering
Society (TCES) Early Investigator award (2008), a prestigious 2007
Phillip Leverhulme Prize, a Royal Academy of Engineering/EPSRC Research
Fellowship (2004) and the Institute of Materials, Mining and Minerals
Silver Medal (2004) for outstanding achievement in the field of
materials science. He is also Chair of Technical Committee 4 (TC04,
Biomedical Glasses) of the International Commision for Glass (ICG),
which aims to promote the use and advancement of glass technology
internationally.
Dr Matteo Santin
University of Brighton, Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences
Cockcroft
Moulsecoomb
Brighton
Tel: +44 (0)1273 642083
Dr. Matteo Santin has achieved a Honour Degree in Biological Sciences, University of Naples, Italy, a PhD in Biomaterials, University of Naples, Italy, and a PhD in Biomedical Sciences, University of Brighton, UK.
He is currently Reader in Tissue Regeneration at the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Brighton, UK where he leads the Brighton Advanced Tissue and Organ Regeneration group.
Dr. Santin has been working in the field of biomaterials since 1991 and his research activity is mainly focussed onto the synthesis of biomimetic and bioactive biomaterials and onto developing clinically-reflective in vitro models testing host response to implants.
In 2005, he received the Jean Leray Award by the European Society for Biomaterials. He is currently member of the European Society for Biomaterials Council and of the UK Society for Biomaterials Council.
Professor Sandra Downes
Smith & Nephew
University of Sheffield
Professor Brian Meenan
University of Ulster
Dr Matteo Santin
University of Brighton
Professor Neil Rushton
Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
Professor Justin Cobb
Imperial College London
Dr Minoo Esat
Furlong Research Charitable Foundation
Dr Jie Huang Senior Lecturer, University College London