Group news

Dr Adams presented his work at the BNA Festival of Neuroscience, Brighton.

Anthea Mutepfa presents her work at the Future Investigators of Regenerative Medicine conference.

Zaib Shamsi presents his summer project work at London conference.

Dr Chris Adams delivers research talk in Malaysia.

Chai Plaza, a Keele Neuroscience student, was awarded a British Society of Cell Biology Summer Studentship to conduct research in the NTEK labs.

Prof Divya Chari has been invited to join The Expert Review Network (TERN) for the UK Multiple Sclerosis Society

Medical intercalater from NTEK, Haseeb Basit won the Royal Society of Medicine Gordon Holmes prize.

Anthea Mutepfa won best image prize for her poster presentation.

Dr Adams was awarded Atomic Force Microscopy time within the Henry Royce Institute.

Medical intercalater from NTEK, William Woods, wins runner up poster presentation prize.

Jessica Wiseman wins outstanding poster presentation in Melbourne.

Professor Divya Chari has been invited to join the Medical Research council Developmental Pathway Funding Scheme panel.

Medical intercalater Haseeb Basit’s abstract was selected for oral presentation at the Association for Surgeons in Training (ASIT)/ MedAll Surgical Summit.

Medical intercalater Will Woods presented his work at the UK and Ireland Controlled Release Society meeting.

Professor Divya Chari has joined the University of Cambridge to start her visiting fellowship in the Electrical Engineering department.

Dr Jacqueline Tickle has joined the School of Life Sciences and NTEK as Teaching Fellow in Neuroscience

Professor Chari was invited to write the Editorial for Nanomedicine, entitled “How can nanoparticles help neural cell transplantation therapy?”

Emma Green successfully defends her PhD thesis

Dr Chris Adams has taken over the role of Program Director for the Neuroscience Course in the School of Life Sciences.

Medical intercalater Daisy Evans was awarded a prestigious Wolfson Intercalation Award by the Royal College of Physicians

Medical intercalaters Raja Basit and Will Woods both successfully completed their intercalated degrees in the NTEK group

Results from an ongoing collaboration between NTEK and veterinary neurologists at the Royal Veterinary College, were published in the Journal of Tissue Engineering.

Professor Divya Chari has taken on a new role as Keele representative on the eight university Midlands Infrastructure consortium.

Dr Chris Adams invited to present to fellow alumni at Academy of Medical Sciences Daniel Turnberg Alumni Conference 19-21 November 2019

Professor Divya Chari has led a successful funding bid with consultant rheumatologist Dr Sam Hider for an INSPIRE award from the Academy of Medical Sciences and Wellcome Trust, to fund medical student research till 2022.

NTEK group members delivered outreach activities including scientific talks and a collaboration with local artists at Stoking Curiosity festival at Spode Works, Stoke on 22-23 November 2019.

Professor Divya Chari has been awarded Discipline Hopper Grant from EPSRC Healthcare Technologies

NTEK members participation in first SoapBox Science event in Stoke on Trent 2019

NTEK PhD student Aina Mogas won first poster prize at Biomaterials Translation Workshop 2019

Congratulations to several student members of the Neural Tissue Engineering group who have won prizes at conferences and symposiums over Summer 2019.

NTEK has published a new paper by Tickle JA and Chari DM in June 2019. entitled ‘Less is more: Investigating the influence of cellular nanoparticle load on transfection outcomes in neural cells’.

A team of scientists from Keele University organised 9 events across Stoke-on-Trent from 20-22 May 2019 for the international Pint of Science festival.

Dr Chris Adams was invited to the Daniel Turnberg Travel Fellowship Reception to give a talk on his experiences of the scheme alongside two other fellows.

Dr Stuart Jenkins and Professor Divya Chari were asked to write a book chapter for 'Use of Nanoparticles in Neuroscience' which has now been published by Springer and Humana Press.

NTEK intercalating medical student Louise Finch wins 2nd prize in poster competition at the Society of British Neurosurgeons Careers Day Conference held at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.