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Poster Prize for PhD student Chris Adams
First year PhD student Christopher Adams won joint-first prize in the annual poster competition of the Doctoral Training Centre in Regenerative Medicine.
Chris is a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering, working in the lab of Dr Divya Chari, and is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council as part of the Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) in Regenerative Medicine. The annual poster competition of the DTC was held recently at Leeds University. The DTC aims to unify scientists with backgrounds in wide-ranging disciplines such as engineering, chemistry and biology in order to generate engineering solutions to the problems faced by the Regenerative Medicine industry. Currently, six Universities (including Keele) form the DTC, with over 50 students studying at all levels of their PhDs.
Twenty posters were presented at the meeting, by first and second year DTC students from Loughborough, Nottingham and Keele Universities, and these were judged by the students from Sheffield, York and Leeds. The poster was a description of a two-month project, undertaken in Dr Divya Chari's laboratory at the Institute of Science and Technology in Medicine (ISTM) in 2010. The study investigated the effects of different experimental protocols on the genesis of neurons from neural stem cells that had been engineered with magnetic nanoparticles to deliver genes. These stem cells are a major transplant population for the treatment of central nervous system disease and injury. Chris's work aims to optimise the delivery of genes to neural stem cell transplant populations, and to develop novel methods to study stem cell and nanoparticle interactions.
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