King's College London · Guy's Campus
We engineer nanomaterials, from porous silicon nanoneedles to smart biomaterials, that sample, sense and deliver into living cells and tissues, for spatiotemporal omics, in vivo gene therapy and personalised tissue regeneration.
Research
Nanomaterial DesignMaking porous silicon nanoneedles, nanowires and particles, and biodegradable devices for regenerative medicine.Biointerface EngineeringHow cells sense and respond when they touch a nanostructure, and how to design that contact.
Cell and Gene TherapyDelivering genes and gene editors into hard-to-transfect cells and tissues.
SpatioTemporal BiologySampling and sensing living tissue repeatedly to map how molecules change in space and time, and to diagnose disease without a biopsy.Featured paper
Gu C, Martella DA, Rose LA, … Chiappini C
Porous silicon nanoneedles repeatedly sample live brain tissue, preserving it while mapping lipid distribution, and classify human glioma biopsies.
Read the paper : Nanoneedles enable spatiotemporal lipidomics of living tissuesPeople
Join us
We welcome candidates in microfabrication, cell and molecular biology, and bioengineering. Here are the routes our students and postdocs use to fund their positions.
PhD students
Postdocs
Get in touch well before the deadline so we can build the proposal together.