Outcomes

Grants

A PhD Studentship grant has been awarded to Dr Sarah Cartmell (now at Manchester University). Dr Sarah Cartmell and Dr Nigel Cassidy (Second supervisor) were brought together during the first Bridging the Gaps grant "3ME Initiative" and through their collaboration, the following grant proposal was submitted and subsequently awarded:

• Orthopaedic Research UK PhD Studentship “Optimised Electrical Stimulation for Bone Tissue Engineering” (£50,000).

Three grants have also been submitted to:

• British Skin Foundation “Novel mathematical models for improved dermal and transdermal drug delivery” (£80,865) – submitted November 2011. Outcome not yet known.
• NC3Rs “Resolving the deficiencies of mathematical models for percutaneous absorption: ab initio development of clinically relevant models” (£25,858) – submitted February 2012. Outcome not yet known.
• Leverhume trust (Ref: 17666) “Biologically Inspired Robot Navigation - An Autonomous Evolutionary Approach” (outline accepted and invited to submit a full application)

Publications

• Balint R, Cassidy N J and Cartmell S, Electrical stimulation: a novel tool for tissue engineering, Tissue Engineering.[In press]

Abstracts

Two abstracts have been accepted at the Perspectives in Percutaneous Penetration (PPP) conference, La Grande Motte, France, April 2012. This is the largest conference in this field in the world.

• G P Moss, T Kyriacou, S C Wilkinson, D R Gullick. The application of non-linear auto-regressive moving average with exogenous input (NARMAX) and QSPR methods to modelling the absorption across silicone membranes
• G P Moss, T Kyriacou, S C Wilkinson. The application of non-linear auto-regressive moving average with exogenous input (NARMAX) methods to modelling the absorption across skin.

Also an additional oral presentation has been accepted to the 3rd TERMIS World Congress 2012.

• Balint R, Cassidy NJ and Cartmell S, 2012."Capacitive stimulation enhanced osteogenic differentiation of primary human mesenchymal stem cells", 3rd TERMIS World Congress 2012, September 5-8, 2012, Vienna, Austria.

Seminars

Dr Sule Suso presented his work to a group of colleagues and students at the Guy Hilton Research Centre