Almquist Lab

Lab of Dr Ben Almquist @ImperialBioeng. Aiming to obambulate somewhere between #MaterialsScience, #Biology & #WoundHealing. Tweets personal not @ImperialCollege

[Imperial College London @imperialcollege]

Turning our bodies into our own pharmacies?  💊

What if a wound dressing could listen to your body's own healing cells and actively respond?

Hear from Dr Magdalene Ho and Professor Ben Almquist from the department of Bioengineering on the smart biomaterial dressing they’ve developed and successfully tested on human skin, a world first.

Find out more 👇 https://t.co/CGVvy2AbHn

Nature Materials: https://t.co/PRyMeq1akC

[Almquist Lab @AlmquistLab]

Very cool work yet again @coledeforest!

[Cole DeForest @coledeforest]

Check out our lab's new manuscript entitled "Boolean Logic-Based Control Over Recombinant Protein Biomaterial Degradability and Therapeutic Delivery", now live in Advanced Materials (@AdvPortfolio)!

🔓: https://t.co/VACUfEwYh9

Huge congrats to Murial, Ryan, and Shivani!

[Almquist Lab @AlmquistLab]

This remains preclinical research, not yet a clinical option.

But it shows how intelligence can be encoded into materials that harvest, organise and deliver the body’s own biology in response to cells and unlock new possibilities for healing the most difficult wounds.

[Almquist Lab @AlmquistLab]

What if a wound dressing could let the body become its own pharmacy?

Our new Nature Materials paper shows TrAPs harvest healing proteins and release them when cells pull, helping mouse wounds close faster and accelerating repair in human skin.

https://t.co/1MBWvOIWZV

A thread:

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This precision dramatically changed the dose.

The system worked at growth-factor doses hundreds to thousands of times lower than conventional delivery approaches, and more than 2,000× lower than one clinically used growth-factor product.

Smarter delivery, not simply more drug.

[Almquist Lab @AlmquistLab]

Imperial Bioengineering is hiring up to 3 faculty at the Senior Lecturer/Lecturer (Associate/Assistant Professor) levels across all research areas!

Come join an exciting department here at Imperial!

Applications due 27 April.

https://t.co/oE1XsRMxug

[Almquist Lab @AlmquistLab]

@MITChemE Congrats Paula!!

[Almquist Lab @AlmquistLab]

Congrats, Magdalene, on winning the @FallingWallsLab Singapore pitch competition! Next stop- world finals in Berlin!

Mag pitched her incredible @imperialcollege PhD research, developing our TrAP technology into a disruptive tissue repair and wound healing platform!

So excited!

[Almquist Lab @AlmquistLab]

Congrats @ImperialBioeng, @AlmquistLab, & @Royalcom1851 PhD student Mag, receipient of 2024 June Wilson award by @LonMatSoc chapter of @iom3! Awarded to female student/early-stage scientist in London who shows excellence in materials science! Get ready for her upcoming paper...

[Almquist Lab @AlmquistLab]

@TheChungLab @ImperialBioeng Thanks for having me @TheChungLab! It was great to catch up!

[Almquist Lab @AlmquistLab]

Having fun discussing cool bioeng projects at #ISEF2024! Also fun meeting up with @almquistlab alum Julia to increase @ImperialBioeng representation!

Are you at ISEF and want to learn about studying bioengineering at Imperial? I'm here through Friday- let's chat! #RegeneronISEF

[Almquist Lab @AlmquistLab]

Delicious dinner before sending @ImperialBioeng PhD student Mag off to @coledeforest lab as a visiting researcher! Excited to see what happens w/ TrAPs over next 4 months! Thanks @Royalcom1851 for support! And to think, she just got back from a research visit to @QuinnLab_UofA...

[Almquist Lab @AlmquistLab]

Thanks @noliva77! It was really fun catching up and meeting your group members!

[Nuria Oliva Jorge @noliva77]

Amazing talk (as always) from the great mentor and scientist @AlmquistLab in @IQSbarcelona. Lovely to see how my postdoc project has evolved since leaving the lab 🧬🧪