Prof Phil Stephens
Position:Vice Dean (Research), Professor of Cell Biology
Research Theme
Tissue Engineering & Reparative Dentistry
Research Group
Wound Biology Group
Repair and Regeneration in the Oral Mucosa
Research Interests
Differential tissue repair (scarless, scarring, non-healing), tissue engineering, fibroblasts, stem/progenitor cells, ageing, biomaterials, cell imaging, wound microbiology, development of alternatives to animal model systems.
Selected Projects
Probing the mechanical control of stem cell fate through the development of novel, non-invasive imaging technologies (funded by the EPSRC)
Oral mucosal progenitor cells, preferential wound healing outcome and immunomodulation (funded by the WORD)
The development of in vitro alternatives to animal wound model systems (funded by the NC3Rs/MRC)