DrAlexander Ainscough
Assistant Professor in Organotypic Systems
National Heart & Lung Institute - Faculty of Medicine
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- Assistant Professor in Organotypic SystemsNational Heart & Lung Institute - Faculty of Medicine
- Imperial College London, NHLI, Du Cane Road, VPD Buiiding, London, W12 0NN, United Kingdom
BIO
In May 2024, I joined the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI) at Imperial College London as an Assistant Professor to establish a vascular bioengineering research program.
I spent two years as a postdoctoral research fellow under the mentorship of Professor Jennifer Lewis at Harvard University in both the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. At Harvard, I developed scalable methods for the microvascularisation and assembly of stem-cell derived organoids into bulk tissues for 3D bioprinting applications.
In 2022 I received my PhD from Imperial under the mentorship of Professor Beata Wojciak-Stothard (NHLI) and Professor Joshua Edel (Chemistry), where I was funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) Centre of Excellence Doctoral Training Program. I developed an organ-on-chip platform to investigate vascular remodelling in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) where I identified a novel signalling axis and conducted pre-clinical drug testing in collaboration with AstraZeneca.
During the course of this work, I was awarded the Deans prize for MRes Respiratory and Cardiovascular Science in 2018, the Imperial College Student Award for Outstanding Achievement in 2020 and the Imperial College Provost’s Award For Excellence in Animal Research in the 3Rs category (Replacement, Reduction, Refinement) in 2021.
Before my BHF 1+3 MRes-PhD scholarship, I completed my BSc in Biomedical Science at the University of Hull in 2014 and my MSc in Molecular Medicine at Imperial in 2015.
I am passionate about public engagement and science communication, with my research being featured at Pint of Science, the Great Exhibition Road Festival and Cheltenham Science Festival.
I spent two years as a postdoctoral research fellow under the mentorship of Professor Jennifer Lewis at Harvard University in both the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. At Harvard, I developed scalable methods for the microvascularisation and assembly of stem-cell derived organoids into bulk tissues for 3D bioprinting applications.
In 2022 I received my PhD from Imperial under the mentorship of Professor Beata Wojciak-Stothard (NHLI) and Professor Joshua Edel (Chemistry), where I was funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) Centre of Excellence Doctoral Training Program. I developed an organ-on-chip platform to investigate vascular remodelling in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) where I identified a novel signalling axis and conducted pre-clinical drug testing in collaboration with AstraZeneca.
During the course of this work, I was awarded the Deans prize for MRes Respiratory and Cardiovascular Science in 2018, the Imperial College Student Award for Outstanding Achievement in 2020 and the Imperial College Provost’s Award For Excellence in Animal Research in the 3Rs category (Replacement, Reduction, Refinement) in 2021.
Before my BHF 1+3 MRes-PhD scholarship, I completed my BSc in Biomedical Science at the University of Hull in 2014 and my MSc in Molecular Medicine at Imperial in 2015.
I am passionate about public engagement and science communication, with my research being featured at Pint of Science, the Great Exhibition Road Festival and Cheltenham Science Festival.
FACULTY
- Faculty of Medicine
POSITION NAME
- Assistant Professor in Organotypic Systems