At the May Lunch Club, the CBT Community had the opportunity to get to know our new Centre Director, Professor Shaun Gregory. Dr Silvia Cometta Conde and Ronja Finze, PhD Candidate also delivered interesting scientific talks.
Congratulations, Brenna Devlin, PhD Candidate – HDR of the month
Brenna received the CBT May Outstanding HDR Award
Nominated by Dr Naomi Paxton with the motivation: Brenna has brought an outstanding collegial attitude to her PhD, successfully collaborating with multiple QUT-based and international research teams to add significant value to their melt electrowriting (MEW) research. Brenna’s MEW scaffold design software is now being released open-source which will lower the barrier to entry for new MEW researcher teams so everyone can rapidly incorporate the latest scaffold design optimization knowledge into their scaffold manufacturing workflows.
Lunch Club Speakers:
Our new Centre Director, Professor Shaun Gregory generously shared his career journey, summarised by the tip Work hard, make friends! He also shared his approach to cardiovascular engineering translation with a particular focus on devices used to support or replace hearts. Dr Silvia Cometta Conde discussed her research on antibacterial albumin-tannic acid coatings for scaffold-guided breast reconstruction and, Ronja Finze, PhD Candidate, finished the session with an update on her research project on scaffold-guided breast tissue engineering.
Prof Shaun Gregory
The story of Shaun included both his journey as a cardiovascular researcher and as a supportive colleague. His main message is to work hard and make a lot of friends along the way.
Shaun is co-director of the Artificial Heart Frontiers Program, founder and director of the Heart Hackathon student team competition, director of the CardioRespiratory Engineering and Technology Laboratory, and president-elect of the International Society for Mechanical Circulatory Support. He holds both NHMRC and Heart Foundation fellowships. Shaun is a cardiovascular engineer committed to advancing patient outcomes in heart and lung failure by bringing together engineering, biomedical science, design, and medicine to develop novel, technical solutions for clinically relevant problems.
Dr Silvia Cometta Conde
Silvia is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Faculty of Engineering. Silvia obtained her M.Sc. in Molecular Bioengineering in 2018 from the Dresden University of Technology (Germany) and her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the Queensland University of Technology (Australia) in 2023. Silvia’s research focuses on developing new antibacterial coatings to prevent bacterial infection, as well as on the development of new technology platforms to study biofilm infections in implants.
Ronja Finze, PhD Candidate
Ronja is a dedicated PhD Candidate with an outstanding collegial attitude to assist others. She will share her research project on scaffold-guided breast tissue engineering using 3D-printed medical-grade polycaprolactone large-volume scaffolds in a preclinical porcine model.
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The CBT Lunch Club offers our HDR students and early career researchers an opportunity to network with like-minded, give practice talks and be inspired by external presenters. The sessions are arranged by Dr Jacqui Mcgovern and Dr Nathalie Bock, CBT Internal Engagement Leads.
Contact us if you have questions or would like to come as a guest speaker: https://research.qut.edu.au/cbt/