About 

Welcome! Here you can find out a bit more about our lab; our members, our projects and publications, and our interests in and out of the lab.

We are based at the School of Clinical Dentistry at the University of Sheffield in beautiful South Yorkshire, the UK. We are one of the world's leading Universities for teaching and research, and as a School 92% of our research was graded as `world leading´ or `internationally excellent´ in the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014. 

As a lab group, our main focus is on the development of antimicrobial therapies that do not involve, or at least improve the stewardship of, current antibiotics. The global rise in antimicrobial resistance is a huge challenge and we are interested in ways we can prevent and treat infections particularly those associated with biofilms.

As such, much of our work is translational and interdisciplinary in nature and lies primarily in novel approaches to a) the acceleration of wound healing, and b) detecting, preventing and treating bacterial infections without traditional use of antibiotics, including the use of polymer-based systems, ultrasound and acoustic vibration, novel wound dressings, antimicrobial biomaterials for dentistry and bone and using 3D tissue engineered models to examine effects of planktonic and biofilm infection and treatment on both bacteria and human cells.

To find out more about current and recent projects, please click on the 'Projects' tab below.

We are a friendly bunch, always keen to collaborate and hear exciting news from other labs, so please feel free to get in touch!

email: j.shepherd@sheffield.ac.uk

Or for further contact details see: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/dentalschool/our-people/academic-staff/joey-shepherd