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CCMM attended ESB 2025 in Turin, where PhD candidates Sumedh and Cindy presented excellent research posters!

CCMM is attending WBC2024 in Daegu, South Korea 26-31 May 2024

The new Royce 3D Bioelectronics Facility at the Department of Materials Science Cambridge University is now open.The press release is now live at the Henry Royce Institute webpage   https://www.royce.ac.uk/news/new-royce-bioelectronics-suite-at-the-university-of-cambridge-will-support-research-into-healthier-futures/

The 32nd Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials conference took place in Bordeaux 4-8 September 2022.CCMM was well represented at ESB 2022 with our delegates giving papers and posters across the conference.  Delegates attending were Jack Bonfield, Lillian Zhang, Lu Zhang, Luke Malone, Felix Wei, Katie Staunton and Ruth Cameron. …

Else Ellermann participated in 14th ECerS Conference at Novi Sad,Serbia on 21-22 October 2021. The Society aims to promote the exchange of knowledge, ideas and experiences obtained by young scientists in the field of ceramics.  They are dedicated to help them expand their network at an international level by organising various events and conference…

The Cambridge Centre for Medical Materials is pleased to launch CCMMdb, a limited version of it’s online collagen scaffold design toolkit for public access at simple.ccmm.wiki. The public version of CCMMdb includes a link to CCMMwiki, with information on the background, production and characterisation of collagen scaffolds. CCMMdb also contains an …

Congratulations to Else Ellermann who won the UK heat of the European Ceramics Society Student Speech Competition.  Else will present at the next round in Novi Sad, Serbia during the 14th conference for Young Scientists in Ceramics - CYSC 2021.  The winner of the final round of ECerS 2021 Student Speech contest will be invited to make his/her prese…

Congratulations to Dr David Barrett of Cambridge Centre for Medical Materials on reaching the finals of this year’s Competition with his plan for 'Camadhere'.2020 Cambridge Postdoc Business Plan Competition 'Grand Finale' will take place on Thursday 12 November 2020

The Cambridgeshire and Anglian heats of IOM3 Young Person's Lecture Competition took place at the Department of Materials Science on Thursday 27 February 2020.  CCMM MPhil student Jess Kim won second place with her talk "Branching outwith collagen-based medical materials."  Other CCMM group members, Janice Zhang, Matt Meek and Malavika Nair all als…

CCMM looks forward to welcoming Professor James Kirkpatrick on Monday 9 March 2020 Professor Kirkpatrick will give a lecture: "Designing cellular systems in vitro for nanotechnology research" Monday 9 March 15.00-16.00 Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering, Philippa Fawcett Drive, West Cambridge. Please see attached flyer.  The prof…

CCMM are very pleased to report that at the recent European Society for Biomaterials conference in Dresden 9-13 September, 2 members of our PhDs were awarded prizes. The details are:Reece Oosterbeek was awarded "Best Student Poster Presentation" for his poster on the evolution of polymer blend structure and mechanical properties during degradation.…

Group members gave several oral and poster presentations at the ESB 2017 conference in Athens

Members of the CCMM group have produced a short video to showcase the people and research undertaken within the Cambridge Centre for Medical Materials.

Ruth Cameron and Serena Best have been awarded a £1.7 million "Established  Career Fellowship".  The five year research programme will create a ‘design toolkit’ to develop and improve the effectiveness of biomedical scaffolds used to repair and regenerate tissue and work will begin in June.More information herehttps://www.epsrc.ac.uk/newsevents/new…