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

London, England
Joined October 2014
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 👇 imperial.ac.uk/news/articles… Nature Materials: nature.com/articles/s41563-0…
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Very cool work yet again @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)! 🔓: doi.org/10.1002/adma.74038 Huge congrats to Murial, Ryan, and Shivani!
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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. doi.org/10.1038/s41563-026-0… 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.
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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.
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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. imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-j…
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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!
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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...
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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
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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...
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Thanks @noliva77! It was really fun catching up and meeting your group members!
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 🧬🧪
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Thanks @ChemSynBioGroup! It's been a great visit!
Today we assisted to an impressive talk about biomaterials for wound healing and regeneration! 🔬🥼Great inspiration by Professor Benjamin Almquist @AlmquistLab @ImperialBioeng @imperialcollege
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