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Background:
Biomaterials, nanocomposites, additive manufacturing, melt-electrowrting, tissue engineering, tissue culture, microscopy, micro-computed tomography, histology
Current Research:
Pelvic organ prolapse and incontinence affect millions of women. Commercial polypropylene (PP) mesh used to be the treatment option for these problems. However, the PP mesh caused many issues such as erosion into vagina and bacterial infections and the risk of PP mesh implantation has outweighed its benefit. In Australia, surgery involving mesh placed through the vagina has almost entirely ceased, leaving a huge gap between the number of women who need good treatment options and viable therapeutics. My research aims to bridge the gap by fabricating viable pelvic mesh with biodegradable polymers via melt-electrowriting. These mesh will be enabled with anti-bacterial properties to help reduce the risk of infection.
Interests:
Reading and sports
Projects
Publications
- 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.
- Ristovski, Nikola, Bock, Nathalie, Liao, Sam, Powell, Sean, Ren, Jiongyu Edward, Kirby, Giles, Blackwood, Keith, Woodruff, Mia (2015) Improved fabrication of melt electrospun tissue engineering scaffolds using direct writing and advanced electric field control. Biointerphases, 10 (1), pp.Article number: 011006 1-10.
- Ren, Jiongyu Edward, Blackwood, Keith, Doustgani, Amir, Poh, Su, Steck, Roland, Stevens, Molly, Woodruff, Mia (2014) Melt-electrospun polycaprolactone-strontium substituted bioactive glass scaffolds for bone regeneration. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A, 102 (9), pp.3140-3153.