Principal Investigator
Prof. Michael Monaghan
Prof. Michael Monaghan is Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin. He performed his Postdoctoral research in Germany as a recipient of a prestigious Marie Curie Individual Fellowship where his research was coordinated between the Department of Cell and Tissue Engineering in the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology and the Department of Women's Health in University Clinic Tubingen. During this period he has published a number of key papers in the field of human valvulogenesis, embryonic stem cell research, cardiomyocyte differentiation, biomaterials and non-invasive optical characterisation (Raman microspectroscopy, fluorescent lifetime imaging (FLIM), multiphoton and second harmonic generation (SHG) imaging). Dr. Monaghan received both his B.Eng (Biomedical) and Ph.D. (Biomedical Engineering) from the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG).
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Researchers
Postdoctoral Researchers
DR MEENAKSHI
SUKU
Improving engineered heart tissue models to study cardiac resident macrophages and model inflammatory cardiac conditions.
DR RAJIV
BORAH
Developing silk based injectable electroconductive hydrogel for spinal cord regeneration application
DR REMYA
KOMMERI
Studying the effect of extracellular vesicles from the Zebrafish regenerating heart to inform human heart regeneration
PhD Students
SARA CORBEZZOLO
Developing a fully mature multicellular in vitro model on the human myocardium.
AOIFE
MCLOUGHLIN
Designing a piezoelectric biomaterial blend to generate a range of electric charge for immunomodulation of cardiac resident macrophages.
DIANA EVELINE
SANCHEZ AMADOR
Optimised design of biomaterial implants for the modulation of the foreign body response.
ANNALISA ROVINELLI
Developing FLIM and iPSCs-based cardiac organoid.
CIARA
HEGARTY
Modelling the microbiome in human in vitro organoid platforms as part of the RESIST-AMR team, supported by the Prendergast Challenge-based awards
MATTEO
NOSÈ
Deciphering the macrophage stiffness and metabolic adaptations to optimise the design of biomaterial implants and modulate immunity directed foreign body response.
GUANGCHEN WANG
Developing a semi-automated machine learning pipeline for cell classification.
SILVIA
MARINO
Engineering piezoelectric cardiac patches able of generating immunomodulatory electric fields and promoting regeneration after myocardial infarction.
ANTONIO
PELLICO
Incorporating finite element modelling (FEM) and drug delivery in his research.
PROJECT/LAB MANAGER
TERESA R. CAPUZ LLADRÓ
Teresa Ruibin Capuz Lladró, is a graduate in International Relations and a Master’s in Project Management. She has worked in SaaS and automotive companies as a Project Manager. She has joined Monaghan lab to manage together with Prof. Monaghan the project flIMAGIN3D pertaining to Marie Sklodowska Curie Action Doctoral Network (MSCA-DN) funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
Visting Students
GAIA
PASCOLO
3D printed conductive hydrogels and characterising them in terms of mechanical, conductive and biological properties.
GIULIO
CUZZILLA
Melt Electrowriting (MEW) of functional biomaterial scaffolds for tissue regeneration and wound healing.
SRIJAN CHAKRABORTY
Utilising a bioreactor system to investigate how breast cancer progression is shaped by microenvironmental mechanics and metabolic plasticity
CLINTEN
MOHAN
Fabricating electroconductive biomaterials for heart regeneration
HANG
ZHOU
Two-photon FLIM imaging, develop an automated FLIM analysis pipeline, and train on Brillouin microscopy