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Background:
2012: BSc, Mathematics, Pepperdine University, USA
2012: BA, Chemistry, Pepperdine University, USA
2012: Developmental Engineer, Hughes Research Laboratory, USA
2013: MSc, Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
2017: PhD, Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
2018: Research Associate, Imperial College London, UK
2018: Research Fellow, QUT, AUS
PhD Thesis: Development of a bio-inspired in silico-in vitro platform: towards personalised healthcare through optimisation of a bone marrow mimicry bioreactor
Current Research:
Dr Mark C Allenby is an early career Lecturer in the Biofabrication and Tissue Morphology Laboratory who holds an Advance Queensland Fellowship. He received a PhD and MSc in chemical engineering from Imperial College London for his research in cell biomanufacturing and has undergraduate degrees in mathematics and chemistry.
Allenby has published more than 20 articles which aim to improve medical manufacturing processes through tissue engineering, biomedical image analysis, and computational modelling. Allenby is the keynote speaker of the bioprocess engineering and automation track of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS), and in 2020 won his department’s Early Career Researcher Award. Allenby has been awarded more than $1M of funding as chief investigator across 14 competitive funding rounds, he is the principal supervisor of 3 PhD and 1 MPhil students, and he co-supervises 7 PhD students.
Interests:
Jogging, soccer, American football, traveling, craft beer, and copious amounts of coffee
Projects (Chief investigator)
Projects
Publications
- Paxton, Naomi, Allenby, Mark, Lewis, Philip, Woodruff, Mia (2019) Biomedical applications of polyethylene. European Polymer Journal, 118, pp.412-428.
- Allenby, Mark, Woodruff, Mia (2019) Biofabrication of personalised anatomical models and tools for the clinic. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, 18 (2), pp.161-162.
- Paxton, Naomi, Ren, Edward, Ainsworth, Madison, Solanki, Anu, Jones, Julian, Allenby, Mark, Stevens, Molly, Woodruff, Mia (2019) Rheological characterization of biomaterials directs additive manufacturing of strontium-substituted bioactive glass/Polycaprolactone microfibers. Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 40 (11), pp.Article number: 1900019 1-6.