Principle Investigator:
Dr. Jan T. Czernuszka
Jan Czernuszka is a University Lecturer at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Trinity College. He is a Founding Scientist of Oxtex and its Chief Technical Officer. Jan set up and is Head of the Biomaterials Group at Oxford: this is now a Wellcome Trust Centre for Tissue Engineering. He has over 100 publications and 9 patents and is regularly invited to give presentations at international conferences. He has been part of a group that obtained Oxford’s largest single grant of approximately £56m.
Jan has been Dean and vice-President of Trinity College and is currently Chairman of the Faculty of Materials.
He has a BSc (Hons) and ARSM from Imperial College, London, a Ph.D from the University of Cambridge and a M.A from the University of Oxford.
Email: jan.czernuszka@materials.ox.ac.uk
Tel: +44 1865 273771 (Room 110.10.15)
Tel: +44 1865 273700 (switchboard)
Fax: +44 1865 273764
DPhil (PhD) Students:
Narjes Rashidi
- BSc, Chemical Eng, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2002.
- MSc, Chemical Eng, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran, 2005.
- MSc, Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK, 2011.
Project: Design and fabrication of bilayered collagen based scaffolds for cartilage and bone regeneration
Email: narjes.rashidi@materials.ox.ac.uk
Rabia Nazir
- BSc, Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of the Punjab, Pakistan, 2009.
- MSc, Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of the Punjab, Pakistan, 2011.
Funded by COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
Project: Development of Collagen/hyaluronic acid (HA) based interlaced scaffolds for heart valve tissue engineering
Email: rabia.nazir@materials.ox.ac.uk
Fangxin Li
- BEng, Materials Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, UK, 2014.
Project: Tissue Engineering for the central nervous system
Email: fang.li@materials.ox.ac.uk
Yang (Jim) Xu
- BSc, Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 2014.
Project: Multi-layered Scaffolds for Osteochondral Tissue Repair
Email: yang.xu@materials.ox.ac.uk
Sonia Iftekhar
- BEng in Medical Materials, Queen Mary, University of London, UK, 2016.
Funded by EPSRC
Project: Tissue Engineering of Heart Valves (TEHVs)
Email: sonia.iftekhar@materials.ox.ac.uk
Mu-Huan Lee
- BS, Joint: 1. Chemistry; 2. Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, 2013.
- MSE, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, USA, 2016.
- MSE, Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, USA, 2016.
Jardine Scholar
Project: Treating club foot by tissue expansion with a self-inflating hydrogel
Email: mu-huan.lee@materials.ox.ac.uk
Sasza Chyntara Nabilla
- BEng, Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology, Indonesia, 2014.
- MSc, Materials Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, 2015.
- MEng, Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology, Indonesia, 2015.
Project: Self-inflating Tissue Expanders as a Problem-solving in Chron’s Disease Surgery
Email: sasza.nabilla@materials.ox.ac.uk
Chenguang (Jerry) Qu
- BEng/MEng, Materials Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, UK, 2016.
Project: Tissue engineered scaffold for central nervous system
Email: chenguang.qu@materials.ox.ac.uk