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Bioelectronics Laboratory

 
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Yi-Lin Yu received his medical degree (M.D.) from National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan. He completed the training course of residency and chief residency in the department of Neurological Surgery in Tri-Service General Hospital, Taiwan in 2017. He worked for Tri-Service General Hospital Penghu branch as an attending neurosurgeon since 2017 to 2019. As a PhD student, Yi-Lin is doing researches on biohybrid neural interface for restoration of neurological deficits such as hearing loss and spinal cord injury in collaboration with Prof. Manohar Bance.

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Poppy Oldroyd received her integrated MEng in Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College London in 2020, where she specialised in bioelectronic engineering. Her Master's dissertation focused on electrical stimulation protocols for peripheral nerve repair. As a PhD student, Poppy is working in collaboration with Johnson Matthey to investigate composites of biocompatible conductive polymer and nanoparticles on JM-developed flexible electrode technology. Poppy was awarded an 1851 Royal Commission Industrial Fellowship to support her PhD research.

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Misaki Inaoka received her B.A. in Human Sciences from Waseda University, Japan, in 2017. In 2020, she obtained her M.Eng. from Osaka University, Japan. During her master’s programme, she worked as a research assistant at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). She developed a system that can generate a pseudo-environment for evaluating the noise immunity of biosensors.

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Asmaysinh Gharia received his bachelors degree in molecular and cell biology from the University of California Berkeley in 2018 with an emphasis in immunology. After graduation, he worked in developing microfluidic interfaces for silicon photonic biosensors at the University of California San Francisco with the ultimate goal of creating implantable nanoscale devices for highly personalized cancer therapy. He joined the bioelectronics lab in 2020 as a fellow of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program. As a PhD student, Asmaysinh strives to develop a MEMs platform to efficiently generate cellular immunotherapies in collaboration with Dr Iain Fraser at the NIH.

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Amy Jin received her S.B. in Biological Engineering and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2021. As an undergraduate, she worked on targeted drug delivery to the gastrointestinal tract, focusing on hydrogel-based microbial delivery. As a PhD student, Amy seeks to develop biohybrid neural implants that can form a living interface with the brain to restore function after injury.

Email: atj30@cam.ac.uk

     
 

Filip Wronowski received his BA in undergraduate Medicine and Engineering from the University of Cambridge in 2020. He is now pursuing the MB PhD course where his Clinical Medicine studies are interspersed with PhD work in Electrical Engineering. His project focuses on investigating foreign body response to neural implants and using electrical stimulation to minimize scar formation.

Email: fw331@cam.ac.uk

     
 

Stefany Kissovsky received her BEng in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, from University of Southampton, in 2020. Her final year project was based on developing a point-of-care respiratory sensor and COMSOL modelling. She undertook an internship at the CMOS Sensors Group in STFC at Harwell Oxford Centre, where she worked on X-Ray CMOS sensors. She joined the CDT in Sensor’s Technology in 2020 and worked on integrating microfluidics with neuronal cell cultures for studying Tau pathology. Her current PhD research is focused on designing, fabricating and bio-functionalising organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) for studying cholesterol metabolism in Alzheimer's disease in collaboration with Prof. Gabriele Kaminski.

Email: sjk96@cam.ac.uk

     
 

Belquis Haider is a PhD student with a mechanical engineering background triple concentration in design, mechatronics, materials, and manufacturing (BSc American University in Cairo, 2019), and an EU-commission funded photonics technologies MSc, specialised in photonics mater and ultrafast lasers (Aix-Marseille and Tampere Universities, 2020/1). During her undergraduate degree she also worked at the University of Leeds on the integration of soft tactile sensors into hand splints and established a system for data acquisition. This was a collaborative project with the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. She also had experience working in collaboration with the Leeds Teaching Hospitals to develop a soft passive rehabilitation mechanism for Brachial Plexus injured patients. During her master’s degree, her experience involved fabricating photoresponsive liquid crystal networks and designing, synthesising, and testing DNA nanostructures to enhance a super-resolution microscopy technique (DNA-PAINT) in Tampere and Cambridge. The focus of her PhD research is on developing a platform to study neurodegenerative disease - integrating technologies such as microfluidics, optogenetics, microelectrode arrays, and super-resolution microscopy working in collaboration with Prof. Gabriele Kaminski.

Email: bh487@cam.ac.uk

     
 

Ruben Ruiz-Mateos Serrano is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge and part of the joint Cambridge/UCL Connected Electronics and Photonics CDT program. He received his MEng in Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College London (2021) where he was supervised by Prof. Emmanuel Drakakis. His final year masters project focused on the design of neuromorphic biomimetic circuits which replicate the exact dynamics of the Nobel Prize winning Hodgkin Huxley equations on neuronal dynamics by means of ultra-low-power, microelectronic integrated circuits. As part of the CDT, Ruben received a MRes from the University of Cambridge (2022) during which he worked in a joint project with Prof. Demosthenous from UCL to implement an ultra-low-power, microelectronic chip that performs analogue signal processing of photoplethysmography measurements to predict blood pressure. His interests include the design of ultra-low power microelectronic biocircuits, that is, topologies which replicate the behaviour of biological systems with very high power and area constraints. His current research involves the design and implementation of a non-invasive and portable diagnostics device for ECG imaging based on body surface potential mapping.

Email: rr632@cam.ac.uk

     
 

Luke Gatecliff studied Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Bioengineering in Cambridge. His project explores the effect of ion selective membrane and solid electrolyte films on OECT sensor performance.

 Email: lg570@cam.ac.uk

     
 

Salim El Hadwe is a neurosurgical trainee who finished his medical education at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He pursued his academic studies at the same university, where he received his master's degree in medical research methodology with an emphasis on neurosurgical clinical practice. He finished his first year of general surgery residency at the Greek state hospital in Kavala. His training in neurosurgery continued in Belgium, where he spent three years at the ERASME university hospital in Brussels and one year at the Marie-Curie hospital in Charleroi. He became a Ph.D. candidate and a clinical research associate at the Cambridge University department of clinical neurosciences. His main research interests are in neural electrode interfaces and neural bioelectronics with applications in minimally invasive spinal cord stimulation and recording spinal cord activity in physiologic and traumatic settings.

Email: se471@cam.ac.uk

     
 

Margaux Forner is a PhD student with background in Microelectronics and Computer Science. She studied maths, physics and engineering in undergrad part I at lycée Saint-Louis, Paris, and did part II at the Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne (EMSE). She pursued an integrated masters’ in engineering at EMSE where she specialized in Microelectronics and Computer Science (MEng) and a double diploma at the University of Cambridge (MPhil) in the Bioelectronics laboratory. During her PhD, she is working on biohybrid neural implants for functional restoration after a traumatic injury.

Email: moaf2@cam.ac.uk

     
 

Christopher Slaughter is an Engineering PhD Student at the University of Cambridge and a member of the 2023 cohort of the Gates-Cambridge Scholars. He earned his B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). During his undergraduate studies, Slaughter conducted research on the development of a non-invasive glucose biosensing platform at the Center for Advanced Sensor Technology (CAST). Additionally, he worked with the Tufts University Machine Learning Group on using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) data to develop classifiers for mental workload. Currently, as a PhD Student, his research is focused on developing wearable technologies for the early diagnosis of neuromuscular disease.

Email: ciyfs2@cam.ac.uk

     
 

Sulay Vora is a PhD student with an Electrical Engineering background from VIT University, India, and has garnered valuable industry experience as a Silicon Validation Engineer at leading companies like Cadence, Qualcomm, and Intel. With a keen interest in biomedical applications, he pursued an MPhil in Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge, working on organic electrochemical transistors to investigate cholesterol metabolism in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Presently, his doctoral research at the University of Cambridge focuses on the integration of micro-electrode arrays and microfluidics with novel disease models to study Amyloid-Beta pathology in AD working in collaboration with Prof Gabriele Kaminski.

Email: skv29@cam.ac.uk

 

     
 

Joseph Asfouri is an MPhil student with a background in electrical engineering and neuroscience. He graduated in May 2023 from Rice University, where he worked on magnetogenetics with Dr. Jacob Robinson. He has also investigated the neural basis of mood in a clinical trial of closed-loop deep brain stimulation for depression (Baylor College of Medicine) and the role of visual feedback in brain-computer interface learning in monkeys (University of Washington). Beyond engineering therapies for neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases, his interests include science policy and commercialization for safely and efficiently translating these innovations from the lab to the clinic. During his year in the Bioelectronics Lab, he plans to contribute to a biohybrid stem cell therapies.

Email: jaa79@cam.ac.uk

     
 

Halcyon Brown received her B.A. in Computer Science from Middlebury College, United States and has five years of experience in emergency services. She is pursuing a Master's in Biotechnology and will be working with Dr Chaoqun Dong on the development of soft actuator-assisted bioelectronic implants.

Email: heafb2@cam.ac.uk

 

     
 

Moleca Ghannam is a neurosurgical trainee who is pursuing an MPhil at the University of Cambridge in clinical neuroscience focused on bioelectronics. Her current project is focused on novel uses and design of spinal cord stimulation and neuromodulation.

Email: mmg53@cam.ac.uk