Past lab members
Dr Toby Holmes
Toby (pictured here in the tissue culture lab) worked on a wound healing project, testing a new device sponsored by Smith & Nephew using our tissue engineered skin model. He's now working at Covance in Harrogate as a Study Director.
Dr Jacob Pattem
Jacob worked with us on corneal infection; he helped to develop an easy to use device for detection of fungal infection which he took to India to test for a month in the field, and also developed a new way of analysing polymer/bacteria/cornea interactions using atomic force microscopy. Here he is with his poster at a meeting at IIT Kharagpur, India. He's now a Lecturer at Cardiff University.
Dr Robert 'Bob' Turner
Bob was part of an interdisciplinary team with Dr Candice Majewski (Engineering) developing and testing antibacterial 3D printed objects. He then worked on a second project, MOZART, testing antimicrobial and proangiogenic metal ion containing nanoparticles. Bob returned to his first love of computers and is now a Research Software Engineer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield.
Dr Tom Paterson
Tom worked with Joey as part of the MOZART team, a large European project developing therapeutic nanoparticles for bone and skin infections. He is still in the School of Clinical Dentistry, and is now Lecturer in Biomaterials. Pictured here having eaten his own height in plates of sushi in Kyoto, Japan at the TERMIS world congress.
Dr Natalya Doroshenko
Natalya (pictured at the super res microscope) worked on modified antibiotic functionalised polymers that were able to disrupt biofilm on corneas. The polymers (also used by Jacob Pattem) are developed by our long term collaborators in Prof. Steve Rimmer's group at the University of Bradford. Natalya left acadeamia to work in industry and is now a Product Development Scientist at GAMA Healthcare.
Dr Andy Frey
Andy had a short postdoc with our group after completing his PhD in the Department with Prof Graham Stafford. Andy looked into the ability of low frequency ultrasound to kill intracellular bacteria, and also helped to work on some Raman spectroscopy of infected corneas funded by the MRC. Andy is now in Tampa, Florida as a Fulbright Scholar.
Dr Pat Harrison
Pat (right) was based at Sheffield Hallam University but spent a lot of time with us in the lab on a joint MRC Confidence in Concept project. Pat was using our tissue engineered infected skin model to test novel wound dressings developed at SHU. He is now a Lecturer in Biochemistry at Hull University.
Dr Emilia Barker
Emilia was a postdoctoral researcher with Joey & Dr Ilida Ortega Asencio investigating the manufacture and antibacterial activity of Cerium-containing electrospun scaffolds, funded by the EPSRC. She is now a permanenet member of our Core technical staff.
Dr Nicola Burns
Nicola was a reserach technician with the team in April 2021. She was working with Anthony Bullock on our UK-Pakistan British Council funded project looking at sugar-based dressings. Nicola was investigating whether common skin and wound bacteria will be able to metabolise the ribose sugar in the wound dressings.
Dr Deepak Unune
Deepak was a Marie Curie Fellow (funded by the EU) working on the EDiMplant project, manufacturing antimicrobial biomaterials for orthopedic implants with enhanced osteointegration capabiities. His supervisory team was made up of Joey, Prof Gwen Reilly, Dr Fred Claeyssens, and Prof Russell Goodall,
Previous PhD students
dr pavintorn 'Mew' teratanatorn
Pavintorn worked on a project in close collaboration with our colleagues Prof. Stephen Rimmer and Dr. Tom Swift at Bradford University, looking at the behaviour of linear vs branched antibiotic functionalised PNIPAM polymers (Primary Supervisor Prof Ian Douglas)
dr Guma belied
Guma was based at Sheffield Hallam University, investigating low frequency utrasound as an adjunct therapy to non-antibiotic antimicrobials (Sheffield Hallam University, Primary Supervisor Prof Christine LeMaitre, co supervisors Dr Keith Miller, Dr Prachi Stafford)
Dr Alejandra Penuelas
Ale was working in collaboration with the NHS on the potential of using adipose tissue as a proangiogenic therapeutic for soft tissue wound healing, with particular reference to surgeons that use lipofilling to enhance wound healing. (Primary Supervisor Dr Vanessa Hearnden, Engineering) .
james wingham
James, whose primary supervisor is Dr. Candice Majewski (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering) is working on additive manufacturing of 3D printed objects that have antimicrobial activity.
rayan binduhayyim
Rayan (Primary supervsior Prof. Paul Hatton, cosupervisor Prof. Cheryl Miller) is developing antibacterial bioactive glasses.
Alhassan Alrafaie
Hassan (Primary supervisor Prof Graham Stafford) is isolating and characterising phage that target Enterococci.
ahmed Almuntashiri
Ahmed (Primary supervisor Prof Graham Stafford) is funded by the Saudi government and works on Sialic acid transport via TonB in the oral bacteria Tannerella.
Katherine (Kittie) Ansbro
Kittie (Primary supervisor Prof Graham Stafford) is part funded by GSK and is working on developing multsipecies in vitro oral biofilm models.