Sofia Patri

Imperial College London

Biography

Research Project: Targeted iron oxide nanogels for ovarian cancer hyperthermia therapy
Supervisors: Dr Nazila Kamaly (ICL), Prof Nguyễn Thị Kim Thanh (UCL)

Sofia graduated from Imperial College London with a MSci in Chemistry in 2022. During her undergraduate degree, she worked on modelling the interactions between bioreceptors and graphene for biosensing applications in the Torrisi group. For her final year project, Sofia synthetised a series of small pyridine macrocycles for rotaxane formation under the supervision of Dr Jamie Lewis. Sofia’s PhD project aims to develop a highly novel targeted magnetic nanotherapy based on magnetic nano-composites made of an iron oxide nanoparticles core and a nanogel shell for simultaneous drug delivery and hyperthermia therapy.

Elwin Hunter

Studying my PhD as part of the ACM CDT not only provided me with valuable training courses and workshops on characterisation techniques, but also regular academic seminars, team activities, and discussions to help expand my interests, both inside and outside of research.