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ISIS UK Science Roadshow in Belfast, 27 March 2024

Outreach
08 February, 2024

We will be presenting our neutron scattering work and how we use these exciting methods to characterise our peptide drug delivery systems at the ISIS 40th Science Roadshow in Belfast . This forms part of a series of  events throughout 2024 with programmes that are intended to cover a diverse range of scientific interests and […]

Advanced Science News Coverage and Advanced Healthcare Materials paper

General
08 June, 2023

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    

Get your tickets for the NI Science Festival: Gel Jabs: How Pioneering Hydrogels Fight Infection and Disease

Education
23 January, 2023

We will be presenting a talk on how we are researching our peptide hydrogels as future medicines at the NI Science  Saturday on 25th February 2023 (11 – 12pm) in Lecture Theatre 2, Medical Biology Centre (Queen’s University Belfast, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast, BT9 7BL). Click here to get your tickets All are welcome to this […]

Researcher Live! Podcast

Outreach
14 June, 2022

We will be presenting our hydrogel and nanotube drug delivery work on 10am (Ireland/UK time) Thursday June 23rd! via the Researcher Live! podcast. Our talk forms part of their month-long series of talks on Peptide Therapeutics: disease screening and drug design. Anyone that is interested can register for free using the link below:   https://researcher-app.com/paper/11299010 […]

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

Research
17 September, 2021

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.  

Our EPSRC research selected as case study

Outreach
14 May, 2021

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 […]

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

Research
24 February, 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 […]

Research Group receive Innovate UK ICURe SETsquared Award

Outreach
24 February, 2021

We are delighted to be currently taking part in the UKRI Innovate UK ICURe SETsquared Cohort 32 (32-08 / 520268133: £30,000). This programme is allowing us to market validate our peptide hydrogel technology in a variety of applications both within drug delivery and the wider commercial landscape. Our Research Associate Simon Porter is currently undertaking these […]

Our peptide hydrogel research wins Controlled Release Society’s 2020 People’s Choice Award

Research
06 July, 2020

We are excited to hear our research on the use of peptide hydrogels for HIV/AIDs drug delivery won the overall CRS People’s Choice Award at the recent CRS virtual meeting. The presentation, as well as our other work, is available to conference participants by clicking the relevant title below.   Poster: Poster number 63.  Peptide-like […]

Latest hydrogel work published in Chemical Communications

Research
17 June, 2020

Our latest collaborative work on entitled “Tuning the antimicrobial activity of low molecular weight hydrogels using dopamine autoxidation,” has been accepted within Chemical Communications. This work was led by Emily Cross and represents a collaboration with Prof Dave Adams’ Group at the School of Chemistry University of Glasgow and is freely available here. Thanks again […]

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