The LCN has announced two studentships to support new collaborations across the network.
The announcement follows an internal call that was circulated to the LCN PI network at King’s College London, Imperial College London and UCL.
The projects selected for the studentships are:
‘Nanoscale 3D Printing by Computerised Molecular Self-Assembly’ lead by Professor Khuloud Al-Jamal, Institute of Pharmaceutical Science at King’s and Dr Firat Güder Department of Bioengineering, Imperial. The project is also in collaboration with Dr Alar Ainla from Department of Micro- and Nanofabrication, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory in Portugal.
‘Engineering a plasmonic platform for mRNA sensing with subcellular resolution by localised photoporation‘ lead by Dr Ciro Chiappini, Centre for Craniofacial and Regenerative at King’s, Dr Michael Thomas, LCN and Department of Biochemical Engineering, UCLL and Dr Rickie Patani (The Francis Crick Institute & UCL). This project is also in collaboration with Dr Andrea Serio (The Francis Crick Institute & King’s)
LCN Co-director Anatoly Zayats said ‘We are delighted to announce these LCN-wide studentships. The scheme was specifically designed to promote new collaborations within the LCN, and we were extremely happy about the response we received, with many very high-quality projects across all three Colleges. The selected two projects reflect multidisciplinary strength of LCN and some of its priority areas. We hope very much that the other projects and proposed new collaborations will happen and wish all the projects and applicants very many successes.
