PhD student studying colloids and cancer at the University of Leeds. Part of @SOFI_CDT. co-host of @spinningbuckets
Joined March 2021
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Nice to present my work and see some other interesting talks! A good 2 days in Durham @SOFI_CDT
It’s that time of year again, all the @SOFI_CDT together for the SOFI showcase in Durham. Excited to present my work and chair a session later today!
Good day yesterday at the @BraggRoyceLeeds PhD colloquium. Nice to see a range of topics from all aspects of materials, including from fellow @SOFI_CDT student James King. Was also nice to present my own work and win the best talk award, thanks to all involved!
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Congratulations to Daniel Williams from @UniversityLeeds for winning the #ECCo2023 Poster Prize!!👏👏👏 @ECColloid
Flash presentation to attract some interest in my poster! I can fit a lot of words in 5 minutes who’d have guessed
Excited for the day of talks at #ECCo2023 hoping to hear some exciting stuff about colloids.
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Merry Christmas from the Cayre group! 🎄
Great to have (almost) everyone together, especially as I submitted my thesis today! 🥳
It's been a great week at @ecis2022 ! Sad that it's over but heard some incredible talks, did some Greek dancing, and got to meet some lovely people - and show my research with a poster. Can't wait for the next one.
Big day for @SOFI_CDT at #cdtreal2022 with Joe, Gerome, James and me all presenting! Chairing the sessions today was definitely an experience!
Congrats to Joe for winning the second place prize in the long talks
Enjoying a lovely conference meal after an exciting day full of talks! #cdtreal2022
Proud to be introducing and representing @SOFI_CDT at the #CDTREAL2022! Looking forward to two days of talks from us, @FormulationCDT , @moltoproduct , and CP3!
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This month, I'm running the Hackney Half Marathon for the amazing Suzy Lamplugh Trust!
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Really enjoyed partnering with @in2scienceUK recently. I gave a presentation to an audience of Year 12 students about ‘opening doors in the physical sciences’!
Featuring @Daniel_W97, Alex and Lorenzo discussing their journey from school to PhD - thanks all!
#STEMoutreach
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First up, the popular vote for best #cdttwecon entry went to @Daniel_W97 of @SOFI_CDT for the twitter thesis "Developing Metal-Shell Nanocapsules for the delivery of cytotoxic drugs"
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1/3 Saving the bees: Protecting species-specific insecticides with polymers! Double stranded-RNA can act as an insecticide by stopping chosen proteins from being made. Delivering this dsRNA can kill the pest insect, but not other species such as bumblebees! #CDTTweCon
1) Developing metal-shell nanocapsules for delivery of cytotoxic drugs:
Cancer is a huge issue, being one of the largest causes of death in the world. A lot of current treatments have drastic side effects from chemo drugs (cytotoxic) interacting/killing healthy cells. #CDTTweCon
2) Methods to decrease this interaction have consisted of targeting methods and encapsulation of the drugs (often in polymers) but these can suffer leaks as they're porous so can still have side effects. Using a capsule that has a thin metal shell can prevent leakages #CDTTweCon
3) I have been looking into growing a thin gold film on an oil core to make a metal capsule, this would prevent unwanted interactions as no leaks. The capsules are broken with ultrasound to release the drugs in the tumours location hopefully reducing side effects #CDTTweCon