To meet our needs, the healthcare industry is ever expanding – creating new types of drugs, drug delivery systems, medical devices and treatments.

In her lecture, Professor Coopman will describe her experience of working in pharmacology to tackle fundamental questions about how human cells respond to certain drug molecules and the impact that this can have long-term. She will also reflect on how joining a chemical engineering department has influenced her approach to the research her group now undertakes in cell therapy and tissue model development.

By posing the question of whether a person can be both a pharmacologist and an engineer, she encourages us to think about the benefits of working at the interface between biology and engineering – whilst being honest about the challenges of interdisciplinary work and how changes to education can surmount them.