Eirini Theodosiou

'Bioactive glass microcarriers for the expansion and recovery of hMSCs for the treatment of pseudarthrosis following Adult Spine Deformity surgery'
Fully funded 4 year project in collaboration with the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital
https://lifetime-cdt.org/project-page/
https://aston.box.com/s/1q92h7oo5r76n5omwpmhq84bxt5l93gx

'Antimicrobial polymer/bioglass nanofibers for chronic wound management' Fully funded 3 year project https://www.aston.ac.uk/study/courses/phd-engineering-and-applied-science

I obtained my first degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). I then did a one-year MSc in Biochemical Engineering at University College London (UCL), followed by two years research under the supervision of Prof Peter Dunnill (OBE). I won a Marie Curie Research Training Grant and moved to the Center for Process Biotechnology (CPB) at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), where I obtained my PhD degree in Biotechnology. In 2002 I took up the position of Senior R&D scientist and Purification team leader at the Pharmaceutical company ALPHARMA (now Xellia Pharmaceuticals), before returning back to the UK as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham and then Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at Loughborough University. I joined Aston in November 2015.

• New and improved support materials and systems for efficient separation and purification of high value biotherapeutics and human cells.
• Fabrication and characterisation of cryogel monoliths and electrospun nanofibers for cell & gene therapy and tissue engineering.
• Novel microcarriers for cutlured meat production.

• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
• PhD in Biotechnology
• MSc in Biochemical Engineering
• MEng in Chemical Engineering

W. Joseph A. Homer - Project title: 'Affinity selection systems for intraoperative cell salvage'.

Benjamin Dages - Project title: 'Novel microcarriers for scalable clean meat production'.

• The Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professors Scheme (Academic Champion) (October 2019-July 2022).
• The Royal Society International Exchanges Award. Value: £11,712 (March 2019-February 2021).
• EPSRC AMR4AMR seedcorn fund - 'Novel poly(butylene succinate) fibre dressing with naturally sourced antimicrobial agents for burn wound treatment'. Value: £33,150 (Completed 2018).
• EPSRC AMR4AMR seedcorn fund - 'Critical points in the pathway of antibiotic prescribing in the hospital setting; the antibiotic mapping of prescribing (ABMAP) study'. Value: £23,149 (Completed 2018).
• Bioprocessing Research Industry Club/BBSRC Grant (BB/I017143/1) - ‘Developing generic scalable selection methods for human therapeutic cells’. Value: £189,000 (Completed 2015).

Design and Build (CE1002)

Transfer Processes (CE2004) - Module Leader

Advanced Process Design Project (CE3003)

Research Project (CE4011) - Module Leader

Downstream Processing for Biotechnology Products (CE4027) - Module Leader

Member of the University Senate

Phone number: 0121 204 4702 
Email: e.theodosiou@aston.ac.uk 
Room number: MB134