DrAli Mohammed

Summary
Dr Ali Mohammed is an honorary lecturer at the Dyson School of Design Engineering and part of the Advanced Manufacturing Group at Imperial College. He has research experience in tissue engineering, biomaterial synthesis, plant and algal biology, cancer biology, polymer chemistry and additive manufacturing. 

Ali completed his bachelors in Chemical Engineering (BEng) at UCL in 2009. After which, he worked as a Process Technologist for 3 years at Royal Dutch Shells' largest Gas To Liquid (GTL) plant to date, based in Ras Laffan (Qatar). There, he helped successfully and safely commission the plant to see it through to its first production of GTL fuel. He was awarded a Special Recognition Award in 2010 for his efforts during the start-up. He then completed his MSc in Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College, with a project supervised by Prof Julian Jones in the Biomaterials Group. He continued onto his PhD in the Jones' Group, and graduated in 2018. His research was based on advanced nanocomposite double network hydrogels for cartilage repair. Upon graduation, he was awarded the Larry Hench Prize for Excellence in Biomaterials Research. During his PhD, Ali also completed an associate degree at Harvard Medical School where he focussed on Cancer Biology Therapeutics.

For the autumn 2022/2023 term, Ali has been the module lead and lecturer for Solid Mechanics II Core Module for 2nd years at the Dyson School of Design Engineering.

From January 2024, Ali joined the RCA's School of Design as an Associate Professor and Academic Lead of Design Products.

Lectures, Modules & Podcasts
2022 - 2023: Solid Mechanics II – Module leadMEng 2nd year Design Engineering core module 2023: OncoEng Summer School: Recent advances in bioprinting technologies, and applications in Tissue Engineering As part of the OncoEng summer school program

2023: BioTrib: Biorheology lecture As part of the BioTrib training course for Marie-Curie early stage researchers 2022: IMSE Webinar: Green light at the end of the tunnel – a breakthrough in 3D printing using green lightUploaded on YouTube2022: Never Lick The Spoon Series - Podcast episode on 3D bioprintingEpisode on Bioprinting

Honours, Prizes & Awards

2022: Institute of Molecular Science and Engineering (IMSE) Seed Funding grant: Development of a novel 3D printing technology

2022: Innovation Think Tank Certification Program – Run by Innovation Think Tank, Siemens Healthineers2021: Seeds for Success Grant: Hassle-free degassing – an enzymatic approach to oxygen free environments2021: Convergence Science Centre Organoids grant: Development of a microfluidics platform to 3D print tumour-specific Extra-Cellular Matrices to improve derivation rates of High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer patient-derived organoids2021: IMSE Junior Affiliate2021: Member of the Future Leaders Fellowships (FLF) Peer Review College (PRC)2019: Bettelheim AwardInternational Conference of the Lens2018: Larry Hench Bioengineering & Materials Departmental Prize Excellence in a biomaterials related PhD project2018: Thanaa AwardFor outstanding research during a PhD

Selected Publications

Journal Articles
JJ Lee, AA Mohammed, A Pullen, CW Myant, WG Proud, 2023, Mechanical characterisation of 3D printed lightweight lattice structures with varying internal design alterations, Materials Today Communications, 106456, ISSN 2352-4928.
AA Mohammed, J Miao, I Ragaisyte, AE Porter, CW Myant, A Pinna, 2023, 3D printed superparamagnetic stimuli-responsive starfish-shaped hydrogels, Heliyon, Volume 0, Issue 0, e14682.
AA Mohammed, S Li, T Sang, JR Jones, A Pinna, 2023, Nanocomposite Hydrogels with Polymer Grafted Silica Nanoparticles, Using Glucose Oxidase, Gels 2023, 9(6), 486.
AA Mohammed, N Groth Merrild, S Li, A Pinna, JR Jones, 2022, Double-Network Hydrogels Reinforced with Covalently Bonded Silica Nanoparticles via 1‑Ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide Chemistry, ACS omega, 2022, Vol: 7, 48, 43904–43914.
FN Barrak, S Li, AA Mohammed, C Myant, JR Jones, 2022, Anti-inflammatory properties of S53P4 bioactive glass implant material, Journal of Dentistry, Vol: 127, Page: 104296, ISSN: 0300-5712
AA Mohammed, LM Kalossaka, G Sena, L Barter, C Myant, 2021, 3D printing nanocomposite hydrogels with lattice vascular networks using stereolithography, Journal of Materials Research, 36, pages 4249–426, ISSN: 0884-2914
S Li, F Tallia, AA Mohammed, MM Stevens, JR Jones, 2020, Scaffold channel size influences stem cell differentiation pathway in 3-D printed silica hybrid scaffolds for cartilage regeneration, Biomaterials Science, Vol: 8, Pages: 4458-4466, ISSN: 2047-4830
AA Mohammed, A Pinna, S Li, T Sang, JR Jones, 2020, Auto-catalytic redox polymerisation using nanoceria and glucose oxidase for double network hydrogels, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, Vol: 8, Pages: 2834-2844, ISSN: 2050-750X
X Liao, ND Falcon, AA Mohammed, YZ Paterson, AO Saeed. 2020, Synthesis and Formulation of Four-Arm PolyDMAEA-siRNA Polyplex for Transient Downregulation of Collagen Type III Gene Expression in TGF-β1 Stimulated Tenocyte Culture, ACS omega, 2020, Vol: 5, Pages1496−1505, ISSN: 2470-1343
AA Mohammed, J Aviles Milan, S Li, JJ Chung, MM Stevens, TK Georgiou, JR Jones, 2019, Open vessel free radical photopolymerization of double network gels for biomaterial applications using glucose oxidase, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, Vol: 7, Pages: 4030-4039, ISSN: 2050-750X
A El Ghamrawy, F de Comtes, H Koruk, AA Mohammed, JR Jones, JJ Choi, 2019, Acoustic streaming in a soft tissue microenvironment, Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol: 45, Pages: 208-217, ISSN: 0301-5629