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RAFT is pleased to announce that it has been recognised as ‘Most Dedicated Medical Research Company 2019 – UK’ in this year’s M&A Global Awards. The awards process is conducted via an international campaign, created through a Global poll of the ‘M&A Today’ readership, which asks the voting readers to put forward nominations for those […]

9 amazing Team RAFT runners joined over 40,000 other participants on Sunday (28 April 2019), to complete the gruelling 26.2 mile Virgin London Marathon. For RAFT patron Bob Jenkins (pictured) it was marathon number 22, at the tender age of 82- an incredible and truly inspirational achievement!! We are so grateful to all of the

On Monday (1st April 2019), Dr Elena Garcia attended the launch event of the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Transformative Pharmaceutical Technologies. RAFT is one of 19 industrial partners that, in collaboration with the University of Nottingham, University College London (UCL), and the Synthesis & Solid State

An article on chronic wound treatment and RAFT’s work in the field of wound healing has been featured in the Wound Care edition (Issue 24) of Innov-age magazine. Each issue of Innov-age features articles written by leading professionals from both within and outside the NHS, sharing best practice and innovation and helping to improve the

Anita Mohan, RAFT’s most recent Surgical Research Fellow, had the honour of presenting the Arris and Gale Lecture at the Society of Academic & Research Surgery (SARS) annual meeting, which took place yesterday at the Royal Society of Medicine in London. This award, from the Royal College of surgeons, dates back to 1810 when the

Taleen Shakouri has recently started a PhD which will further the research already carried out in collaboration with UCL for RAFT’s 3D printing for facial reconstruction project. Taleen’s research project will be focused on the development of a new composite material specifically for 3D printing to create a custom-fit facial implant. Prior to this PhD

For the third year running, RAFT has received a GHP (Global Health and Pharma) International Life Sciences Award. This year the award was for ‘Most Dedicated Medical Research Company (UK)’. Organisations are selected for GHP awards through a combination of online voting and a rigorous research process.  

Thomas Saddington, a post graduate student from the University Of Sheffield, has recently joined RAFT’s research team for an internship. Thomas has completed a BEng with honours in Bioengineering and will work at RAFT prior to starting an MSc in Biological and Bio-process Engineering in September 2018. “Having the chance to get an insight into

A scientific paper, written by Alexandra Levin in relation to research she conducted during an internship at RAFT, has been published in the Journal of Tissue Engineering. The paper is titled “The importance of factorial design in tissue engineering and biomaterials science: Optimisation of cell seeding efficiency on dermal scaffolds as a case study” and

Dr Elena Garcia, RAFT’s Director of Research, has accepted an invitation to become part of an External Advisory group for the NIHR (National Institute for Health Research) Trauma Management MedTech Co-operative. The remit of the Trauma Management MedTech Co-operative is to develop and deliver a programme of work that could improve clinical outcomes and quality