Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology Laboratories

Conferences & presentations

Talks, posters and prizes from the PNT Lab — where we have presented our work and who presented it.

Oral presentation

Alginate-based hydrogels to quantify ECM viscoelasticity

Dr Rebekah Kay

35th Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB 2026) · Antwerp, Belgium · 7-11 September 2026

Rebekah presented her EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship work on alginate hydrogels as a way to measure and reproduce the viscoelastic behaviour of the extracellular matrix.

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Poster

Nanofibrous peptide hydrogels as biomimetic platforms for localised lipid nanoparticle delivery in glioblastoma

Ms Hajir Ali

35th Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB 2026) · Antwerp, Belgium · 7-11 September 2026

Hajir presented a poster on charge-directed co-assembly of peptide hydrogels and their use as a local depot for STAT3 siRNA-loaded nanoparticles, with Prof Alberto Saiani.

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Highly Commended, Early Career Researchers Flash Talk Prize
Prize

Highly Commended, Early Career Researchers Flash Talk Prize

Dr Abdulwahhab Khedr

EPSRC Research & Partnership Hubs for Health Technologies All-Hub Meeting, hosted by the MicroTex Hub · Edinburgh · 7-8 September 2026

Abdulwahhab was Highly Commended in the Early Career Researchers Flash Talk Prize, awarded for a presentation demonstrating innovation, clarity and scientific excellence.