Personal statement
My research focuses on exploiting microsystems engineering approaches (lab-on-a-chip, microfluidics, materials engineering) to create new in vitro models for investigating and controlling cell behaviours. Applications of this work include the development of tools for drug screening and for tissue engineering. My background is highly interdisciplinary, spanning the engineering-life science interface, with expertise in a wide range of cell biology, microfabrication, live-cell imaging and analytical technologies.
Teaching
I have taught on both the BEng/MEng and MSc courses in Biomedical Engineering and I am currently module coordinator for BE105 (Cell Biology 1) and co-lead on the creation and implementation of new UG teaching laboratory classes.
Research interests
Current research projects, involving collaboration with a diverse range of academic and clinical collaborators, include:
- investigating the phenotypic changes in vascular cells that underlie cardiovascular disease
- the development of organ-on-a-chip models for chronic gynaecological conditions
- the development of new methods for monitoring mitochondrial dynamics in neuronal preparations
- the development of novel materials for antimicrobial applications.
Professional activities
- A Microfluidic Approach to Investigating Vascular Cell Fate at the Single-Cell Level
- Contributor
- 24/3/2022
- Adenomyosis-on-a-chip: a 3D endometrial-myometrial microfluidic model
- Speaker
- 17/11/2021
- Automated tracking of mitochondrial motility using image processing and epifluorescence microscopy
- Contributor
- 25/11/2020
- PhD External Examiner
- Examiner
- 9/8/2019
- Microwell Arrays for Monitoring Phenotypic Heterogeneity in Vascular Cell Populations
- Speaker
- 25/9/2018
More professional activities
Projects
- Development of a functional organ-in-lab model of human vascular aging
- Wu, Junxi (Principal Investigator) Sandison, Mairi (Co-investigator) McCormick, Christopher (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2025
- EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Prosthetics & Orthotics | Brown, Ruth
- Sandison, Mairi (Principal Investigator) Buis, Arjan (Co-investigator) Brown, Ruth (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2026
- Adenomyosis-on-a-chip: a microfluidic 3D model of the endometrial-myometrial junction (EMJ)
- Sandison, Mairi (Principal Investigator) Zagnoni, Michele (Co-investigator) Busch, Caroline (Researcher)
- 06-Jan-2021 - 23-Jan-2021
- Development of novel, automated analyses for the quantification of cellular and sub-cellular dynamics from fluorescence video-microscopy
- Chalmers, Susan (Principal Investigator) Sandison, Mairi (Co-investigator) Murray, Paul (Co-investigator) Campbell, Andrew John (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 11-Jan-2021
- STEM Equals- Rational design of novel microfluidics devices for evaluating nanomedicine in vitro biological fate
- Rattray, Zahra (Principal Investigator) Kazakidi, Asimina (Co-investigator) Sandison, Mairi (Co-investigator) Perrie, Yvonne (Co-investigator)
- Nanotechnology in health has emerged as a promising solution to addressing unmet clinical need. While demonstrating significant promise and industrial uptake- pipeline attrition rates for nanomedicines remain high, significantly hampering the bench-to-clinic translation of nanomedicines. This is in part due to a lack of models adequately measuring and predicting biological fate. This project uses computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to aid the rational design of microfluidics devices mimicking human blood vasculature. It is anticipated that using CFD, we will be able to design more physiologically-relevant models of blood flow that can be used in the evaluation of nanomedicine biological fate.
- 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2021
- Transformative Anatomically accurate Microvascular flow Phantoms for Ultrasound therapy research (TAMP-US)
- Mulvana, Helen Elizabeth (Principal Investigator) Jackson, Joseph (Co-investigator) O'Leary, Richard (Co-investigator) Sandison, Mairi (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2021
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