Personal statement
I am a Chancellors Fellow within the Department of Biomedical Engineering. My research interests include the control of cell function/fate through applied mechanical stimulation and development of materials for tissue regeneration (cellular and acellular).
Since 2012 I have been involved with a multidisciplinary collaboration using nano amplitude vibration to stimulate stem cell osteogenesis ('nanokicking'). This technology is now being translated towards clinic as an osteogenic cell therapy for orthopaedic repair. I have also been involved in the translation of implantable bioactive polymers for growth factor delivery ('HealiOst').
Previously I was awarded a Royal Society of Edinburgh Enterprise Fellowship and have a keen interest in the clinical/commercial translation of cell engineering technologies.
Professional activities
- PhD examination
- Examiner
- 29/7/2022
- Cellular Mechanotransduction: Using vibration to manufacture a cellular ATMP
- Speaker
- 15/3/2022
- SULSA Our Future Health Innovation Fund Workshop
- Participant
- 25/2/2022
- Biomedical Engineering (Organisational unit)
- Advisor
- 7/12/2021
- Preclinical translation of mesenchymal stem cell therapies
- Speaker
- 10/2021
- MRes examination
- Examiner
- 1/9/2021
More professional activities
Projects
- BRAINS Strathclyde Centre for Doctoral Training
- MacKenzie, Lewis (Principal Investigator) Childs, Peter (Principal Investigator) Witte, Kimia (Principal Investigator) Jimenez, Melanie (Principal Investigator) Chow, Shiao (Principal Investigator) Fu, Ying (Principal Investigator) Gomez-Roman, Natividad (Principal Investigator) Fazio, Mariana (Principal Investigator) Reid, Andrew Baxter (Principal Investigator)
- Centre for Doctoral Training in Bridging Research and Advancements in Neurological Sciences (BRAINS). First cohort of PhD students starting autumn 2023.
- 01-Jan-2023
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Pereira Sousa, Rui Pedro
- Childs, Peter (Principal Investigator) Jimenez, Melanie (Co-investigator) Pereira Sousa, Rui Pedro (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2026
- EPSRC REA - Mechanosensitivity of osteoporotic stem cells for diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis
- Childs, Peter (Principal Investigator) Jimenez, Melanie (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2026
- Development of a new model of human vascular calcification
- Wu, Junxi (Principal Investigator) Childs, Peter (Co-investigator)
- 15-Jan-2022 - 15-Jan-2022
- Mechanobiology-based medicine
- Childs, Peter (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
- Selective stem cell engineering through tuned mechanical loads
- Childs, Peter (Principal Investigator)
- 31-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2022
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