Garry LavertyDr Garry Laverty is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Pharmacy Queen's University Belfast. His Biofunctional Nanomaterials group develop self-assembling hydrogel platforms for biomedical applications based on the building blocks of life, namely peptde and their unnatural variants (peptide-mimetics). These have huge potential within the fields of drug delivery and biomaterials with the group's focus primarily on the development of sustained release systems (in situ forming injectable implants) and antimicrobial applications (coatings, wound healing gels). Garry's work is funded by >£1.34 million of competitive research funding from sources including: the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Medical Research Council (MRC), the Wellcome Trust, the Royal Society, Innovate UK, Invest NI, alongside successful applications to Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL, Grenoble) and UKRI Science Technology Facilities Council ISIS Neutron and Muon Source for neutron scattering beam time. He has authored 46 publications relating to peptides and drug delivery. Read More Read Less