Dr. Timothy O'Shea
2009
John Monash Scholar
PhD
Medical Engineering
Harvard and MIT
United States of America
Maths and Science, Medicine and Health
Neurobiology, biomaterials, tissue engineering
Tim is currently an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University where he is the Principal Investigator of the Glia Engineering Lab. Tim holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Medical Engineering and a Masters of Engineering Management from QUT. He received a John Monash Scholarship in 2009, using the award to pursue PhD study in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics within the collaborative Health Sciences and Technology (HST) program of the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Tim's PhD thesis research was performed under the guidance of Institute Professor Robert Langer and focused on the development of innovative injectable biomaterials to improve the delivery of reparative therapies for traumatic spinal cord injury. Tim's work at Harvard and MIT was acknowledged with a number of awards including the Martha Gray Prize for Excellence in Research, the Langer Summit on Neurotrauma Prize, Society of Chemical Industry Perkins Scholarship and an HST Idea2 Fellowship. Upon completing his PhD in 2015 Tim took up a Postdoctoral fellowship position in Neurobiology and Bioengineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where he conducted research into the roles of glial cells in traumatic injury and foreign body responses. This work at UCLA was supported by a Craig H. Neilsen Fellowship in Translational Spinal Cord Injury Research, Paralyzed Veterans of America fellowship, Wings for Life Foundation Fellowship and the American Australian Association. His work has been published in numerous high impact journals including Nature, Nature Communications, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Advanced Materials and JACS.
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