Speaker: Ipsita Roy
Location: Biomedical Sciences Building, University of Galway
Date: Tuesday, 11th March 2025
CÚRAM is pleased to host Ipsita Roy from the Insigneo Institute, University of Sheffield, for an upcoming seminar chaired by Abhay Pandit.
Professor Ipsita Roy, Professor of Biomaterials, School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Sheffield, is an expert in microbial biotechnology, natural biobased materials, and their biomedical and environmental applications.
Professor Roy was awarded the prestigious Inlaks Scholarship to study for her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, UK. At Cambridge, she was awarded scholarships including the Churchill College Scholarship and the Cambridge University Philosophical Society Fellowship Award. Her postdoctoral work was at the University of Minnesota, USA. She has published over 100 papers in high ‘Impact Factor’ journals such as Biomaterials, ACS Applied Materials Interfaces, with an H index of 52. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3).
Her group is focused on the production of novel natural and sustainable polymers such as Polyhydroxyalkanoates, Bacterial cellulose, g-Polyglutamic acid, Alginate and their biomedical and environmental applications. She is an editor of Scientific Reports and Biomedical Materials. Her total grant portfolio is more than 14 million pounds. She has many patents, and she has spin-out company called PHAsT, focused on the production of medical grade PHAs for biomedical applications
Further details will be provided via email.
