Lecturer/Biomedical Engineer bridging the fields of neuroscience and tissue engineering - interested in 3D-printing, biomaterials and neurotrauma.
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⚡ New Paper Published! ⚡ Just out in Advanced Science, we developed biomimetic hyaluronic acid scaffolds containing tunable 3D-printed MXene microfibre networks to enhance delivery of electrical stimulation to neurons and stem cell neurospheres: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley…
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Congrats to Tian Carey & @iWoodsie recent postdoctoral researchers on AMBER funded & linked research projects who have been awarded @royalsociety – Research Ireland University Research Fellowships.
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Really happy to be part of this work on gene-activated scaffolds for spinal cord injury repair. Great job, Tara, and the rest of the @TissueEngDublin team
Congratulations to Tara McGuire and all involved on the article 'Development of a PTEN-siRNA activated scaffold to promote axonal regrowth following spinal cord injury' recently published in Bioactive Materials!
Read the article here: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Really excited to see Pratibha kicking off the first student presentation from my group at #BINI2026. A great start to the project!
Pratibha Gupta presenting her PhD research at Bioengineering in Ireland 2026! Pratibha's project will focus on development of a multi-modal model to study the role of electrical stimulation in aconal regrowth in mature and injured neurons.
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TERG PhD student Aamena Mejevdiwala presenting her PhD project based on biomaterial-enabled immunomodulation of regulatory T cells for neurotrauma repair applications at Bioengineering in Ireland 2026!
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Excited to be joining the @Futureneuro_ie Centre as a StAR Lecturer based in RCSI. Looking forward working with Ireland's leading centre for the study of neurological disease on developing new devices and treatments for neurotrauma repair!
👋 Meet Dr @iWoodsie, newly appointed StAR Lecturer at the FutureNeuro @Researchirel Centre under the @RCSI_Irl Strategic Academic Recruitment programme. His research explores biomaterials, gene therapies, and electrical fields to support CNS repair: futureneurocentre.ie/our-peo…
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The Research Ireland Pathway Programme is now open. Supporting postdocs across all disciplines to build their track record and become independent research leaders. Hear from awardee Dr Jonathan Briody @RCSI_Irl below. Learn more: researchireland.ie/funding/p… @RCSI_PopHealth
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RCSI researchers have shown how electroconductive nanomaterials embedded in a tissue engineering scaffold can be used to boost axonal growth in neurons.
The findings could advance treatments for neurological conditions.
Read the study 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/advs.2025034…
#RCSIDiscover
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Job Opportunity: @fjobrien and I are hiring researchers for a 12 month commercialization project to work on developing flexible biohybrid electrodes for responsive neurostimulation applications at @TissueEngDublin Application Below:
my.corehr.com/pls/coreportal…
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The project is part of the new Research Ireland Health Tech ARC Hub for commercialization cutting-edge Irish research and we welcome applications from a broad range of biomedical/electronic engineers, materials scientists or neuroscientists! #euinmyregion 🇮🇪🇪🇺
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The funding was secured by Dr Gemma Leon, Dr Ian Woods and Dr Jonathan Briody. Minister James Lawless announced the investment on behalf of Research Ireland.
@iWoodsie @Researchirel @lawlessj @TissueEngDublin @RCSIPharmBioMol @RCSI_PopHealth @DeptofFHed
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Out now in Advanced Healthcare Materials @AdvPortfolio! We show that tuning scaffold stiffness and matrix composition can enhance the angiogenic, immunomodulatory and neurotrophic capacity of astrocyte progenitors for SCI applications
Read it here: doi.org/10.1002/adhm.2025008…
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We are seeking candidates for a fully funded PhD position to develop 3D-printed electroconductive implants for traumatic brain injury repair. It's an exciting project at the intersection of biomedical engineering, neuroscience and material science:
rcsi.com/dublin/research-and…
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After a fantastic day of talks, novel therapeutics and a fascinating keynote by Prof David Mooney, I was delighted to be awarded Best Early Career Research Talk at the RCSI Research Day 2025 for my work on MXene-based Biomaterial Scaffolds For Neurotrauma Repair.
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I'm going to be presenting my latest work on 3D-printing #MXene-based electroactive scaffold implants today at 7pm (GMT, or 2 pm EST) as part of the @IOSCIRS Seminar series on spinal cord injury research.
Live Link:
youtube.com/watch?v=78MzigmC…
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Delighted to recieve the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland Bronze Medal Award at this year's @bini_irl conference. Looking forward to pushing our electroactive implant technologies towards preclinical testing over the next year with @fjobrien and our team at @TissueEngDublin
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Really enjoyed presenting my work on developing 3D printed MXene biomaterials at @bio. Combining 3D printing with conductive nanomaterials provides us with exciting tools for tuning electrical stimulation based therapies.
@iWoodsie presenting his research on 3D printed electroconductive MXene-based microstructures in a biomimetic tissue engineering scaffold for spinal cord repair at BinI this morning. #TERGonTour
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Members of TERG were delighted to attend the launch of Ciarán McCarthy's newest book 'Closer to Walking Again' last night! Ciarán has been an active member of the PPI panel for the RCSI spinal cord injury research team since it was established!
Read more:
rcsi.com/dublin/news-and-eve…
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Check out @liamolaochdha's talk tomorrow at 11 am at #F24MRS!
I will be presenting at the Materials Research Society #F24MRS Conference in Boston this Monday at 11:00. Swing by to hear about my work on 3D-printed electroconductive scaffolds and electrostimulation for spinal cord injury repair, or DM me to meet and talk about it further!
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