Marta Roldo Portrait

Dr Marta Roldo

Associate Professor in Biomaterials

Marta.Roldo@port.ac.uk

PhD Supervisor

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Faculty of Science and Health School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences Pharmacy, pharmacology, and biomedical sciences Mechanical engineering Biological sciences Health and wellbeing

Biography

I graduated in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology at the University of Padova, Italy. After a postgraduate research placement funded by the European Oncolgy Institute of Milan working on PEGylation of avidin for tumour pretargeting, I joined the University of Vienna to investigate the mucoadhesive properties of thiolated chitosan.

She obtained her PhD from the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú, for her work on azopolymers for colonic drug delivery and became a lecturer at the same university in 2005. She is currently an Associate Professor in Biomaterials in the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences where she is investigating different biomedical applications of biomaterials from drug delivery, to anti-biofilm activity and tissue engineering.

My work on the chemical modification of chitosan has been recognised by the award of the International Association for Advanced Materials (IAAM) Scientist Medal in April 2023. I have recently been named on the Elsevier list of top 2% academics cited globally in 2022. I act as grant reviewer for international research councils in countries such as Poland, The Netherlands, Germany and Chile and have been appointed as panel member in the selection of grant awardees for the National Science Centre in Poland.

I work with a number of industrial partners on the development of tissue engineering scaffolds, characterisation of antimicrobial implant surfaces and the imaging of oral biofilm and quantification of its removal by different methods.

Research interests

  • Hydrogels for drug delivery and tissue engineering

  • 3D printing of hydrogels

  • Biomedical applications of carbon nanotube and silver nanowires

  • Development of composite bioceramics

  • Development of peptides drug delivery systems

  • Bone and cartilage tissue engineering

  • Visualisation and removal of oral biofilm

Research outputs

2024

Blunn, G., Iwasaki, N., Karali, A., Roldo, M.

1 Jul 2024, In: Biomaterials Advances. 161, 213873

Blunn, G., Roldo, M., Roncada, T.

14 May 2024, In: ACS Omega. 9, 19, p. 21388–21400, 13p.

Balcaen, T., Blunn, G., Davis, S., Karali, A., Kerckhofs, G., Pétré, M., Roldo, M., Zekonyte, J.

1 Apr 2024, In: Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials. 152, 10p., 106414

Cidonio, G., Dawson, J. I., Kanczler, J. M., Kim, Y., Lanham, S., Oreffo, R. O. C., Rawlings, A., Roldo, M., Tozzi, G.

5 Mar 2024, In: Bio-Design and Manufacturing

Antonijevic, M., Cerri, G., Dalton, H., De Mori, A., Quizon, D., Roldo, M., Yavuzyegit, B.

4 Mar 2024, In: Biomimetics. 9, 3, 14p., 159

Blunn, G., Iwasaki, N., Karali, A., Roldo, M.

6 Feb 2024, In: Bioengineering. 11, 2, 16p., 162

Blunn, G., Iwasaki, N., Karali, A., Roldo, M., Sensini, A.

24 Jan 2024, In: Engineered Regeneration

2023

Dalpiaz, A., Demartis, S., Donnelly, R. F., Gavini, E., Giunchedi, P., Guillot, A. J., Hutton, A., Larrañeta, E., Mazzarello, V., Melero, A., Rassu, G., Roldo, M.

5 Nov 2023, In: International Journal of Pharmaceutics. 646, 18p., 123457

Blunn, G. W., Davis, S. L., Karali, A., Roldo, M., Zekonyte, J.

23 Aug 2023, In: Bioengineering. 10, 9, 17p., 995

Blunn, G., Davis, S., Karali, A., Roldo, M., Zekonyte, J.

1 Aug 2023, In: Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials. 144, 11p., 105999