Category: PhD

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Rach successfully defends PhD thesis

Rach Dixon (soon to be Dr Dixon officially) successfully defended her PhD thesis. The title of her thesis was Development of a Minimally Invasive Microneedle Immunosensor to Detect Biomarkers in the Skin.

Congratulations, Rach!

Rach’s work has brought many firsts to our group, including a new microfabrication technique and a new signal detection platform. It’s been a pleasure working with her and we are utterly delighted for her success.

The examiners were Dr Al Edwards (University of Southampton) and Dr Neil Keegan (Newcastle University). The examination was chaired by Professor Sarah Slight. We thank them for conducting a smooth PhD examination. Thanks also to the administrative staff involved in organising it.

Here’s everyone beaming after the examination:

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Welcome Bohan!

Bohan Zhou, who spent several weeks as a research intern in our lab last year, has rejoined us to study a PhD in microneedle biosensing. We have a very interesting project lined up. Welcome back, Bohan!

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EPSRC PhD Studentship Available

We’re pleased to announce that a PhD studentship is now available in our laboratory and open for applications. The PhD studentship, generously funded by the EPSRC, will fund the tuition fees, living expenses (stipend) and research support (e.g. consumables) for one PhD student for 3.5 years. The student will work under the guidance of Keng, Wing and Katarina to develop a microimplant for drug delivery.

Interested candidates should apply online by following any one of the links below, which also contain full details of the studentship:

Informal enquiries should be directed to keng.ng@newcastle.ac.uk.

If you know anyone to whom this may be of interest, please forward this on.