Forsythe Biomaterials Research  Group

25 May 2020

Well done Anisha for receiving her PhD. She did brilliant work using microparticles for T-cell differentation and delivery of CAR-T cells to fight cancer.

5 May 2020

Pat has been awarded her PhD. She did ground breaking research into 3D graphene mesh neural electrodes that integrate into the brain! 

18 April 2019

It is fantastic to see Fanyi receive his PhD.  He was co-supervised by Jess Frith and Helmut Thissen and also spent time in Marcy Zenobi-Wong's lab at ETH Zurich.  Well done!

21 Aug 2018

Julian was awarded his PhD! He did some great work on self assembling peptide scaffolds for neural tissue engineering. 

27 April 2018

It is official! Jason Marroquin was awarded his PhD. His work in 3D conducting microfibrous neural electrodes was outstanding. Well done!

18 March 2018

Fanyi received a Faculty travel award to do some of this PhD research in Prof Zenobi-Wong's lab in ETH Zurich. He will look at microparticles for cartilage repair!

2 February 2018

Well done Yue, who was awarded her PhD titlted "Biomaterials for Infection Resistant Devices".  A great effort!

11 Aug 2017

Check out Jason's paper:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.201700927

20 August 2017

Subhadeep Das received the "Best Thesis Award" by the IITB-Monash Research Academy. Tremendous result!

30 June 2017

Congratulations Dr Das on receiving your PhD titled "Engineering amyloid fibrils for nanotechnology and neuronal cell regeneration".

11 April 2017

Congratulations to Chenghao who received his PhD titled "Modified soft elastomers for cardiac tissue engineering". We wish Chenghao the best of luck for his future career.

1 March 2017

We welcome Yue Yao to the group. He will be 3D printing brain structures and will be co-supervised by Laurence Meagher and Andrey Molotnikov.

28 February 2017

Congratulations to Sepideh for being awarded her PhD: "Bioactive scaffolds for redirecting endogenous neural stem cell migration to repair the injured brain". We wish her the best in her future career.

1 November 2016

Well done to Kelly Tsang who was awarded his PhD. His thesis was titled "Photodegradable hydrogels for tissue engineering applications".

26 Feb 2017

I'm very pleased (and proud) to announce that Andrew Hong received best oral presentation at the MSE Postgraduate Conference!!

9 June 2016

Sepideh is the recipient of a Monash Institute of Medical Engineering (MIME) scholarship to attend SPARK Global - Bioinnovations Course, at Standford University.

30 March 2016

Pat Chen was the receipient of the MCATM Research Support Fund. The fund will help her to investigate new 3D graphene based electrodes for brain stimulation.

1 March 2016

Anisha Balachandran has commenced her PhD investigating 3D culture systems for the production of T-cells.

1 March 2016

Pat Chen has commenced her PhD investigating 3D fibrous graphene neural electrodes. Pat is co-supervised by Prof. Helena Parkington.

1 March 2016

Andrew Hong commenced his PhD and will be investigating the use of injectable hydrogels for the treatment of stroke. He will be co-supervised by Prof. Chris Sobey and Prof. Mibel Aguilar

May 22, 2015

Congratulations to Bing Xu, who has completed his thesis, and farewell to Minna and Hanyi who are returning to complete their degrees. All the best!

April 22, 2015

The group got together for lunch at the Nott to farewell to Chao Zhou, who is returning to China to finish his PhD. Best of luck with your writing!

1 March 2015

Congratulations to Dr Andrew Rodda, an Alumni of the Forsythe group, who has returned to Monash to take up an Assistant Lecturer position within the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

February 26, 2015

We welcome to the group Cyrielle Collinet, from EPFL in Switzerland, who is joining the group to work on photo-mediated release of biomolecules. Welcome Cyrielle!

February 3, 2015

Well done to Fanyi Li, who was awarded the prestigious CRC for Polymers Prize for the best honours report in Australia

November 28, 2014

The Forsythe group celebrated the upcoming end-of-year holidays with a casual lunch.

November 16, 2014

The John Forsythe Group congratulates our most recent alumnus, Dr Andrew Rodda, who graduated with a PhD in materials engineering last month. Andrew's thesis explored the use of electrospun fibres with polymer brush coatings for the creation of well-defined cell microenvironments.