Biomaterials

Biography

Don has more than 30 years’ experience working in blue chip organisations holding senior scientific posts in ICI, Zeneca, Avecia and Polymer Laboratories. More recently he founded Chromatide where he worked as Chief Scientific Officer for 3 years and is credited as the sole inventor of all of the company's intellectual property. In 2009 he founded his second company, Spheritech which has already established a strong IP portfolio. Don is an internationally recognised authority on peptide synthesis, polymer design and chromatography. He is the author of numerous texts and book chapters and is the author of 'A Practical Handbook of Preparative HPLC'. With a track record of innovation he is the main inventor on 19 patents and the sole inventor on all patents filed by SpheriTech to-date. Apart from the inventive nature exemplified by published intellectual property Don has been instrumental in the concept, design, building and launch of equipment for batch-wise and continuous flow based solid phase synthesis over the last two decades. More recently Don has introduced new concepts in biotechnology based applications of continuous reactors which will be published in due course.

Abstract

Abstract : Novel bioresorbable scaffolds for 3D cell culture and tissue repair