Professor Richard Kitney OBE (furthest right) is Co-Director of SynbiCite, the UK鈥檚 National Industrial Translation Centre for Engineering Biology, which was established in 2013 to accelerate and promote the commercial exploitation of engineering biology research and applications.
Research in the Department of Bioengineering uses engineering principles to create new biological systems and to better understand and manipulate biology. We aim to engineer the biochemical processes that can help address key societal challenges, such as healthcare and environmental sustainability.
Our research spans synthetic biology, engineering biology, sustainable food, predictive models of DNA, measuring and modelling interactions between species, biomaterials for healthcare, the home and fashion, as well as engineered proteins and cells as immunotherapies.
Our work is highly interdisciplinary. It includes computational modelling, AI and machine learning, automated platform development, genetic circuit engineering, studying interactions among multiple cells and organisms, metabolic engineering, cell-free synthetic biology, biomimetics, biomaterials, and biological engineering.
Academic staff in this area
Sam Au
Pedro Ballester
Sonja Billerbeck
Adam Celiz
Tom Ellis
Firat Guder
Claire Higgins
Jun Ishihara
Richard Kitney
Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro
Sophie Morse
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Darryl Overby
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Darryl Overby
Cellular biophysics, microenvironmental regulation of cellular behaviour, pharmacology & signalling