Engineered Biomacromolecular Environments for Cells by Professor Ruth Cameron
21 Jan 2026
02.00 PM - 03.30 PM
NTU Lecture Theatre 3 (NS4-02-32)
Alumni, Current Students
NTU MSE Colloquium
Abstract
The availability of tailored two- and three- dimensional environments for control of cell behaviour is a key step in the regeneration of healthy tissue in the body and can also enable model tissue creation for drug screening and the study of disease. We are using a range of techniques including ice templating and electrophoretic deposition to create materials that mimic the complex orientational and spatial anisotropy of natural tissue, and that impart defined biochemical and mechanical cues. This is enabling us to develop bespoke cellular environments and for clinical contexts including cardiac, neural and orthopaedic repair, blood cell production, cancer diagnosis, and microtissues for disease modelling.
Professor Ruth Cameron
Professor of Materials Science
Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy
University of Cambridge
Professor Ruth Cameron FREng is Professor Materials Science at the University of Cambridge and was Joint Head of Department from 2020-2025. Together with Professor Serena Best she directs the Cambridge Centre for Medical Materials and she is also a fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. In recent years, she has been awarded the UK Society for Biomaterials President’s Prize, the IOM3 Griffith Medal and Prize, the IOP Rosalind Franklin Medal and Prize, and the Suffrage Science Award. She has held an ERC Advanced Grant in 3D engineered environments for regenerative medicine and, with Serena Best, held the first jointly held £1.7 million EPSRC Established Career Fellowship.