Recent News and Events
News and Past Events
March 11th, 2025: Chloe and Mark were featured for their funded research for the Queensland-Bavaria Research Alliance 2025 Promo.
Feburary 25th, 2025: Chloe has submitted (and preprinted!) her manuscript: "Additive manufacturing of patient-specific intracranial aneurysm cell culture models." Congrats Chloe!!
January 24th, 2025: Harriet has submitted (and preprinted!) her manuscript: "The Batch-Resourcing Angiogenesis Tool (BRAT) to enable high-content microscopy screening of microvascular networks." Congrats Harriet!
January 22nd, 2025: Ash has submitted (and preprinted!) his manuscript: "Fabricating microfluidic co-cultures of immortalised cell lines uncovers robust design principles for the simultaneous formation of patterned, vascularised, and stem cell-derived adipose tissue." Congrats Ash!
December 21st, 2024: Sabrina has submitted (and preprinted!) her fourth and final manuscript of her PhD: "Haemodynamic impact of implant materials and anastomotic angle in peripheral vascular grafts." Congrats Sabrina!
December 14th, 2024: Sabrina has submitted (and preprinted!) her manuscript: "Simulating big mechanically-active culture systems (BigMACS) using paired biomechanics-histology FEA modelling to derive mechanobiology design relationships" currently on bioRxiv. Congrats Sabrina!
November 22nd, 2024: Rose Ann, Astrid, Chloe, and Ryan all presented at the ASBTE Queensland Regional Showcase, and Rose Ann was the runner-up for the best EMCR prize!
October 29th, 2024: We have won a National Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellowship based on Rose Ann's research, predicting transplant complications by engineering vascularised immune tissue using donation blood from patients and their prospective transplant donors.
October 27th, 2024: Rose Ann, Astrid, and Mark gave presentations on their engineered blood tissue research at Blood 2024 in Brisbane.
October 14th, 2024: Together with the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood, our team has been awarded our faculty's EMCR Industry Engagement award.
October 1st, 2024: Our lab was awarded a UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award (FREA)!
September 24th, 2024: Chloe was awarded a Ted White AM Career Development Scholarship!
September 10th, 2024: Mark and Chloe were awarded a Queensland-Bavaria Development Grant from the Queensland Department of the Environment, Science, and Innovation and the Bavarian State Ministry of the Science and the Arts to 3D print diagnostic cell culture models for intracranial aneurysm rupture risk prediction with Prof. Petra Mela and Killian Muller from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), and with Dr. Craig Winter and Dr. Danillo Carluccio from the Herston Biofabrication Institute (HBI).
June 12th, 2024: Chloe, Ryan, and Astrid participated in UQ's three minute thesis (3MT) competition for PhD students, with Chloe taking home second place!
May 30th, 2024: Chloe's paper "Time-of-flight MRA of intracranial aneurysms with interval surveillance, clinical segmentation and annotations" was accepted and published in Scientific Data. Representing 5 years of clinical data gathering, clinician annotation, and public health agreements in collaboration with RBWH Neurosurgeon Craig D. Winter and QUT Professor Zhiyong Li. The dataset can be found in OpenNeuro. Congrats Chloe!!
April 8th, 2024: Sabrina successfully passed her final PhD viva for her thesis "Fluid-Structure Interactions in Peripheral Arteries: Biomechanical Coupling of In-Silico, In-Vitro, and Cellular Models with Application to Patient-Specific Femoral-Popliteal Bypass Graft Anastomoses". A special thanks to PhD examiners Prof Barry Doyle, Susann Beier, and Geoff Wang. Congratulations DOCTOR Schoenborn!
April 1st, 2024: Ashley has successfully been awarded a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at TU Einhoven! An amazing culmination to Ash's incredible time at our lab from 2022-2024 where he has established our group to such a high standard of research preformance, collegiality, and safety. Congratulations Ash - we will miss you so much in Europe!
Feburary 7th, 2024: the consortium paper "Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles (MISEV2023): From basic to advanced approaches" was published in the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, where Mark was one (of many) experts invited to contribute.
February 6th, 2024: Nataly's paper "Whole transcriptome profiling of placental pathobiology in SARS-CoV-2 pregnancies identifies placental dysfunction signatures" was published in Clinical & Translational Immunology, as led by Arutha Kulasignhe.
January 21st, 2024: Brenna's paper "Melt design innovations in optimizing cellular behavior on melt electrowritten (MEW) scaffolds" was published in Advanced Functional Materials, as led by Mia Woodruff and Naomi Paxton.
November 16th, 2023: Astrid successfully passed her PhD confirmation milestone for her thesis "Bioengineering a Bone Marrow Mimicry for Cell Therapy Manufacturing." She has had an incredible first year and we look forward to celebrating her future successes!
September 19th, 2023: Ash's paper, "In vitro microvascular engineering approaches and strategies for interstitial tissue integration" has been published in Acta Biomaterialia. Congrats to Ash!
September 6th, 2023: Sabrina's paper, "Fluid-structure interactions of peripheral arteries using a coupled in silico and in vitro approach" has been published in Computers in Biology and Medicine. Congrats to Sabrina, Tomas, Kai-Chieh, David, Mia, and Selene! (collaboration with Tomas, Kai-Chieh at RWTH Aachen; David Fletcher at USyd; Selene Pirola at TU Delft; Mia Woodruff at QUT)
August 21st, 2023: Victoria's paper, "Quantitative and large-format histochemistry to characterize peripheral artery compositional gradients" has been published in Microscopy Research & Technique. Congrats to Victoria, Trent, Ed, and Mia! (collaboration with Mia Woodruff, QUT).
May 31st, 2023: Two successful confirmation seminars (Chloe, Ryan) and a successful progress review (Sabrina) capped off by a night out of dinner, drinks, and mini golf. Chloe won the coveted visor with a record score of 22. Congratulations Sabrina, Chloe, and Ryan on a wonderful year.
May 30th, 2023: Brenna's preprint, "Advancing scaffold biomimicry: engineering mechanics in microfiber scaffolds with independently controlled architecture using melt electrowriting" has been uploaded to bioRxiv. Congrats to Brenna, Ted, Naomi, and Mia! (led by Mia Woodruff, QUT).
May 11th, 2023: Rena's paper, "An automated parametric ear model to improve frugal 3D scanning methods for the advanced manufacturing of high-quality prosthetic ears" has been published by Computers in Biology and Medicine. Congrats to Rena! (Led by Sean Powell, QUT).
December 23rd, 2022: Phani's paper, "Reproducibility of the computational fluid dynamic analysis of a cerebral aneurysm monitored over a decade" has been published in Scientific Reports. Congrats Phani! (Led by Zhiyong Li, QUT). This is a paper from our CERG consortium with Dr. Craig Winter, RBWH.
October 31st, 2022: Mark has been awarded a very spoooooky Ramaciotti Health Investment Grant entitled "Engineering high-density tissue bioreactors for the affordable manufacture of cell therapies" for 2023-2024, more details can be found here.
October 12th, 2022: Ashley Murphy has been awarded our school's Health Safety and Wellness Award for establishing and directing new cell culture practices in our shared biomedical engineering laboratory. Congrats Ash!
June 6th, 2022: David Killian's paper, "3D Plotting of Calcium Phosphate Cement and Melt Electrowriting of Polycaprolactone Microfibers in One Scaffold" has been published in Journal of Functional Biomaterials. Congrats David! (Led by Prof Michael Gelinsky, TUD, Germany)
April 27th, 2022: Ryan McKinnon joins us for his PhD on "Engineering vascular conduits in grafts to control mass transport for tissue regeneration" in collaboration with the Princess Alexandra Hospital. Ryan joins us after working as a molecular biologist at BD Biosciences and research assistant at Griffith University. Welcome Ryan!
April 22nd, 2022: Sabrina has passed her mid-term PhD candidature review! Congrats Sabrina!
- Cody in When biofabrication meets bioreactors: implementing construct maturation and functional tissue culture
- Sabrina in Biomechanics of 3D (Bio)printed Materials
- Mark in Frontiers of Bioprocessing and Automation in Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine (keynote) and Advanced Spatiotemporal Imaging for Regenerative Medicine (chair)
October 26th, 2021: Mark delivered a pre-recorded talk at the Effective Altruism UQ event Alternative Meats at 6pm.
October 22nd, 2021: Mark delivered an invited talk at the Queensland Cardiovascular Research Network (QCVRN) at 4:15pm.
September 29th, 2021: Mark's paper 'A spatiotemporal microenvironment model to improve design of a three-dimensional bioreactor for red cell production' has been published in Tissue Engineering Part A (led by Prof Sakis Mantalaris, Georgia Tech).
September 28th, 2021: Sabrina and Trent presented their PhD projects at the International Society of Biofabrication Conference! Sabrina presented 'Numerical and Experimental Platform for the Characterisation of Patient Specific Small-Diameter Vascular Graft Anastomoses for Translation to Tissue Engineering' and Trent presented 'Towards Patient-Specific Vascular Stents: Additive Manufacturing of Poly(ɛ-Caprolactone) Mechanically Enhanced with Graphene Oxide'.
September 24th, 2021: Matt's paper developing 'A quantitative analysis of cell bridging kinetics on a scaffold using computer vision algorithms' has been published in Acta Biomaterialia (led by Prof Mia Woodruff, QUT).
September 5th, 2021: Habib's paper reviewing 'The effects of COVID-19 on the placenta during pregnancy' has been published in Frontiers in Immunology (led by Dr Arutha Kulasinghe, UQ).
August 18th, 2021: Mark was awarded a DECRA entitled 'Engineering tissue organisation using intelligent additive biomanufacturing' which will run from March 2022 through 2025.
August 5th, 2021: Mark welcomed his first child into the world, Giulia Letizia Allenby! Bring on the sleepless nights!
August 3rd, 2021: Alex's paper on 'Model-based data analysis of tissue growth in thin 3D printed scaffolds' has been published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology (led by Prof Matthew Simpson, QUT).
July 20th, 2021: Maureen's paper using 'Using melt-electrowritten microfibres for tailoring scaffold mechanics of 3D bioprinted chondrocyte-laden constructs' has been published in Bioprinting (led by Prof Mia Woodruff, QUT)
July 10th, 2021: Jared's paper on 'A deep learning method for automatic segmentation of the bony orbit in MRI and CT images' has been published in Scientific Reports (led by Dr. David Alonso-Caneiro, QUT)
July 5th, 2021: The BMSE Lab started at UQ!
