Peptide Bionanomaterials From Design to Application

Dr Mohamed Elsawy is a Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Leicester School of Pharmacy, De Montfort University and the team leader of the Peptide BioNanomaterials Group (PBNG). He obtained his PhD from School of Pharmacy at Queen’s University of Belfast in 2012 followed by a short-term fellowship at University of Bordeaux in 2013 and an EPSRC funded postdoctoral training in University of Manchester between 2014-2017. In 2017, he was appointed a lectureship in Pharmaceutics at the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, then in 2020 he moved to the Leicester Institute for Pharmaceutical Innovation at Leicester School of Pharmacy, where he currently works. Dr Elsawy's research focus on understanding the fundamentals of peptide self-assembly into bio-inspired structures for the design of stable and responsive functional bionanomaterials for various biomedical and pharmaceutical applications, with particular interest in drug delivery and tissue engineering. Together with the rational bottom-up molecular design of peptide nanostructures, his group is currently working towards exploitation of various smart manufacturing technologies for the controlled design and fabrication of these materials.