Dermal Drug Delivery & Diagnostics Laboratory
Dr Keng Wooi Ng @ Newcastle University
Yay! Rach came to attend her PhD graduation ceremony today and paid us a visit. I think she was reasonably impressed by the new capabilities we’ve acquired and progress made since she finished her PhD research with us.
Many congratulations, Dr. Rachael Dixon!
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:
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!
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.
An EPSRC-funded PhD studentship is now open for application. The successful candidate will join a multi-disciplinary team to develop a microneedle device to assess nerve function in diabetes.
The project will be led by Dr Roger Whittaker (Institute of Neuroscience), and co-supervised by Professor Anthony O’Neill (School of Engineering) and myself (School of Pharmacy).
Closing date: 5 June 2019.
Full details here.
We are now accepting applications for a funded PhD studentship in rapid disease diagnosis.
If you have read about our microneedle technology, and think that it is an area of research you would like to engage in and gain a PhD in the process, then please see the link below for eligibility and how to apply: