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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Researcher Team
Postdoctoral Researcher
DR RAJIV BORAH
Developing a silk-based injectable electroconductive hydrogel for spinal cord regeneration application.
DR REMYA KOMMEry
PhD Students
SARA CORBEZZOLO
Cardiac regeneration, developing a fully mature multicellular in vitro model of the human myocardium.
ANNALISA ROVINELLI
Focusing on the use of FLIM and its development in studying cardiometabolics.
GUANGCHEN WANG
Developing a semi-automated machine learning pipeline for cell classification.
AOIFE MCLOUGHLIN
Designing a piezoelectric biomaterial blend to generate a range of electric charge for immunomodulation of cardiac resident macrophages.
CIARA HEGARTY
Modelling the microbiome in human in vitro organoid platforms.
SILVIA MARINO
Engineering piezoelectric cardiac patches able to generate immunomodulatory electric fields and promote regeneration after myocardial infarction.
DIANA EVELINE SANCHEZ AMADOR
Designing biomaterial implants for the modulation of the foreign body response.
Venkataprasanna Kannan Sampathkumar
Developing a smart, piezoelectric cardiac patch for heart regeneration after myocardial infarction.
MATTEO NOSÈ
Deciphering the macrophage stiffness and metabolic adaptations to optimise the design of biomaterial implants and modulate immunity directed foreign body response.
ANTONIO PELLICO
Working on finite element modelling (FEM) and drug delivery in his research.
PROJECT/LAB MANAGER
TERESA Ruibin CAPUZ LLADRÓ
Teresa Ruibin Capuz Lladró, is graduate in International Relations and Master’s in Project Management. She has worked in a 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 printing 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.
CLINTEN MOHAN
Fabricating electroconductive biomaterials for heart regeneration as the final project for his Masters programme.
ARSLAN HAIDER
Investigating cardiomyocytes and immune cells derived from iPSCs as key sources of EVs and proteins, as well as their therapeutic potential in in vitro models of ischemia/reperfusion injury.
GIULIA ZANETTI
Investigating the effects of electrical stimulation on the cAMP pathway using EPAC sensor-expressing cells, combining radiometric and FLIM analysis. In parallel, she will receive training in Brillouin light scattering microscopy.
WERONIKA RAJCHERT
Working on the project “Characterization of extracellular vesicles (EVs) from wild-type zebrafish hearts and comparative analysis with mouse heart-derived EVs.” Her academic interests focus on cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying cardiovascular biology.