Dr Elaine Ferguson
Position:Lecturer in Polymer Therapeutics
Research Theme
Tissue Engineering & Reparative Dentistry
Research Group
Microbial Effects on Tissue Function, and Tissue Repair and Remodelling
Repair and Regeneration in the Oral Mucosa
Research Interests
- Bioresponsive polymer therapeutics for tissue repair and regeneration
- Biomaterials
- Tissue engineering
- Physicochemical characterisation of polymer therapeutics in solution and at interfaces
Selected Projects
- Polymer therapeutics as a new class of ‘nanoantibiotics’.
- Stability of polymer conjugates in solution.
- Investigating novel polymeric carriers for polymer-masked unmasked protein therapy (PUMPT).
- Polymer therapeutics to modify cellular responses in impaired human wound healing.