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Born To Engineer – Eleanor Stride

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  • Duration: 4 mins
  • Publication date: 02 Jan 2015
  • Part of series Born to Engineer

Abstract

Dr Eleanor Stride is a biomedical engineer working at Oxford University to develop revolutionary new methods for delivering chemotherapy drugs.  Eleanor works to create and control micro-bubbles which can be injected into the bloodstream of cancer patients, magnetically guided to the site of the cancer and then burst using ultrasound, releasing the chemotherapy drugs at the site of the cancer.  It’s an approach that could revolutionise the delivery of chemotherapy to patients, avoiding the widespread destruction of healthy cells that is unavoidable with present treatments.

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    Professor Eleanor Stride

    Institute of Biomedical Engineering

    Eleanor Stride obtained her BEng and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University College London, where she was subsequently appointed to a lectureship and a Royal Academy of Engineering and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Research Fellowship.In 2011 she was awarded an EPSRC Challenging Engineering grant and joined the Biomedical Ultrasonics, Biotherapy and Biopharmaceutical Laboratory (BUBBL) in the Oxford Institute of Biomedical Engineering, where she became a Professor in 2014. Her main research interest is the development of systems which integrate medical imaging and therapy.She has published over 110 refereed journal papers, four book chapters and presented over 100 conference papers.Her work has also led to the development of new patented technologies for the preparation of microbubble suspensions for ultrasound imaging and drug delivery and she has set up a spin-out company in this area.Her work has been recognized through the award of a Philip Leverhulme prize, The EPSRC & Journal of the Royal Society Interface Award, the Engineering Medal at the Parliamentary Science, Engineering & Technology for Britain awards and the Bruce Lindsay Award from the Acoustical Society of America.She is an associate editor of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology and a member of the Institute of Physics, Institute of Mechanical Engineers and the Acoustical Society of America.
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