The biomedical applications of polymer microarrays. University of Edinburgh Past award Student: Matthew Simmonte Year Award Started: 2012 Polymers have a huge medicinal potential, ranging from the passive (e.g. blood bags and catheters) to the invasive, with stents, dissolvable stitches and polymeric-based drug release systems all having a role in modern healthcare. We have developed technology which allows the efficient, streamlined creation and screening of thousands of polymers allowing the speedy identification of polymers that can control and modulate cellular function. This project aims to enable the use of the polymer microarray platform to identify new polymers for novel functional biomedical applications. In particular, the work will focus on the cellular binding and the enrichment of rare cell types from cervical smear samples and on polymers for binding or scavenging mitochondrial DNA. Identified polymers will be rapidly scaled up, allowing translation from discovery to applied materials. Research area: Other conditions Supervisors: Professor Mark Bradley School of Chemistry Dr Colin Campbell School of Chemistry Regenerys Ltd (foremrly Altrika Ltd) Back to all awards