Dr Helena Azevedo
MEng, PhD

Research Group News

April 2021

Researchers develop new smell test for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and COVID-19 28 April 2021 A new smell test developed by Queen Mary University of London researchers has been found to be easy to use in patients with Parkinson’s disease, and could also be helpful in diagnosing COVID-19 in the broader population. Smell tests have the potential to support the diagnosis of certain … [more]

September 2019

Success for SEMS Academics in 2019 Promotion Round 17 September 2019 Following the 2019 Promotion Round we are very pleased to announce that eleven members of staff from SEMS have been promoted. This is a fantastic achievement that demonstrates the quality of work undertaken by staff in the School. In particular congratulations to our three new Professors - Julien Gautrot, Steffi Krause … [more]

March 2018

Best MEng Group in SEMS Award 7 March 2018 At the Spring Industrial Liaison Forum (ILF) event all the 4th year MEng group project students in SEMS had the opportunity to present their projects and compete for the DePuy Synthes Group Project Prize. The standard was once again very high this year but after careful deliberations the award for … [more]

March 2017

SEMS delegation in China 29 March 2017 On the 16th and 17th of March, a delegation from SEMS, composed of Helena Azevedo, Pankaj Vadgama, Nuria Gavara and Wei-qi Li, participated in the UK-China Knowledge Economy Education Partnership (KEEP) Regional and Provincial Partnerships for Excellence Higher Education Mission to Guangdong. The initiative is organised by the British Council … [more]

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Other News

• 26/11/2013: Our paper “Hyaluronan and self-assembling peptides as building blocks to reconstruct the extracellular environment in skin tissue” was amongst the top ten accessed articles from the online version of Biomaterials Science. http://blogs.rsc.org/bm/2013/10/21/top-10-most-accessed-biomaterials-science-articles-%E2%80%93-q3-2013/
• 03/09/2013: Our paper “Peptide-based microcapsules obtained by self-assembly and microfluidics as controlled environments for cell culture” was published in Soft Matter themed issue on “Directed self-assembly”. http://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/journalissues/sm#!issueid=sm009038&type=current
• 19/08/2013: Our overview paper “Self-assembly in nature: using the principles of nature to create complex nanobiomaterials,” has been selected to feature in Wiley’s News Round-Up. The Round-Up is a biweekly mailing sent to subscribing journalists which promotes a selection of the most newsworthy research published across Wiley’s journals. http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/PressRelease/pressReleaseId-109374.html