Alberto Saiani was awarded a European Ph.D. in 1997 from the Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg, France). Following his Ph.D., he was awarded a Fellowship by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), which allowed him to spend one year as a postdoctoral research fellow at Osaka University (Japan). In 1998, he was recruited as a postdoctoral research associate at Imperial College in the Chemical Engineering department where he stayed for two years. In September 2000, he was appointed to a lectureship at the Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and in September 2002 he was appointed to a lectureship in Molecular Materials at the School of Materials, at the University of Manchester. In 2013, he was awarded an EPSRC Fellowship and founded a company dedicated to the commercialization of the peptide hydrogel technology developed by his group
Research Keywords & Expertise
Drug Delivery
Tissue Engineering
Hydrogels
bioprinting
Self-assembling peptid...
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3D cell scaffolds
Short Biography
Alberto Saiani was awarded a European Ph.D. in 1997 from the Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg, France). Following his Ph.D., he was awarded a Fellowship by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), which allowed him to spend one year as a postdoctoral research fellow at Osaka University (Japan). In 1998, he was recruited as a postdoctoral research associate at Imperial College in the Chemical Engineering department where he stayed for two years. In September 2000, he was appointed to a lectureship at the Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and in September 2002 he was appointed to a lectureship in Molecular Materials at the School of Materials, at the University of Manchester. In 2013, he was awarded an EPSRC Fellowship and founded a company dedicated to the commercialization of the peptide hydrogel technology developed by his group
