{"id":1237,"date":"2024-11-13T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2024-11-19T12:26:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T12:26:52","slug":"rach-successfully-defends-phd-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/news\/rach-successfully-defends-phd-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Rach successfully defends PhD thesis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rach Dixon (soon to be Dr Dixon officially) successfully defended her PhD thesis. The title of her thesis was <em>Development of a Minimally Invasive Microneedle Immunosensor to Detect Biomarkers in the Skin<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations, Rach!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rach&#8217;s work has brought many firsts to our group, including a new microfabrication technique and a new signal detection platform. It&#8217;s been a pleasure working with her and we are utterly delighted for her success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s everyone beaming after the examination:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/files\/2024\/11\/GcST1XnW8AAK5PE.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1238\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/files\/2024\/11\/GcVTSvZXwAATVPK.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1239\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s work has brought many firsts to our group, including a new microfabrication technique and a new signal detection platform. It&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/news\/rach-successfully-defends-phd-thesis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rach successfully defends PhD thesis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-phd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}