Are All Plastics Bad? | How Plastics Nanotechnology Is Revolutionizing Medicine

Plastics often get a bad rap – but Dr. Lewis Blackman from the CSIRO is here to convince you that while many are catastrophic for our environment, there’s also a whole world of “good plastics” out there! Clever plastics that can help save children from cancer, allow amputees to walk and as weapons to kill superbugs. This talk ventures into the nanoworld to focus on how smart, shape-changing, nanosized plastic vehicles can allow us to tackle some of the world’s nastiest diseases more effectively and with fewer side effects than ever before!

Bio: Lewis is a Londoner who fancied a change from the Big Smoke to the Land Down Under. After spending a year teaching science in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, he completed a PhD in polymer chemistry at the University of Warwick. Lewis is currently a postdoctoral fellow at CSIRO working on developing new polymer biomaterials to combat microbial infections. Follow Lewis on Twitter: @LDBlackman

Selected publications detailing Lewis’ research into therapeutic protein-loaded nanoparticles:
Honey-Inspired Antimicrobial Nanoparticles (CSIRO/ Monash University/ The Alfred Hospital/ Swinburne University of Technology):
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.9b22386

Anti-Leukemia Nanoparticles (University of Warwick/ University of Birmingham/ University of Queensland):
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscentsci.8b00168

General preparation of protein-loaded nanoparticles (University of Warwick):
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsmacrolett.7b00725
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017/py/c7py00407a#!divAbstract”

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