Big congratulations to Soraya Lopategui on publishing her PhD work in Advanced Materials. The paper, a team effort with the Alvaro Mata group on "Biocooperative Regenerative Materials by Harnessing Blood-Clotting and Peptide Self-Assembly" exploits non-selective and selective interactions between blood and peptide-amphiphiles to create materials that can be immediately manipulated, mechanically-tuned, and 3D printed. Furthermore, this approach can convert whole blood into blood gel implants that can be used for tissue regeneration, as shown here on a critical-sized rat calvarial defect.

Soraya did her PhD in the Alvaro Mata and Thomas Iskratsch group at the School of Engineering and Materials Science, QMUL. She finished her PhD last year and is currently working for Multus Biotechnology.