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Prof. Pandit has established a critical mass of biomaterials expertise in Ireland. His research integrates material science and biological paradigms in developing solutions for chronic disease. Prof Pandit has developed next generation reservoir delivery vehicles with high payload capacity, programmable degradation profiles and inbuilt gradients of physical, chemotropic and protective cues which facilitate spatiotemporal localised sustained delivery of multiple biomolecules to target injury mechanisms at the molecular and cellular levels. 

Prof. Pandit has developed tuneable extracellular matrix-based cell-delivery platforms as highly customised matrices with an array of self-assembling proteins that dictate specific cell function resembling the native tissue of interest for repair. These biomaterial platforms have been validated to act as inductive templates for constructive remodelling and as templates for the induction of de novo functional, site-appropriate, tissue formation. The effect of the complex milieu of signals, consisting of biochemical and biophysical cues, on these functionalised biomaterial platforms when introduced into the complex in vivo microenvironment are being investigated. These platforms have been developed for neural, musculoskeletal and cardiovascular clinical targets with numerous other targets currently under development.  

Prof. Pandit has received numerous awards and distinctions. He was inducted as an International Fellow in Biomaterials Science and Engineering by the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering and elected as a Fellow of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative International Society. He is the first Ireland-based academic to be bestowed with this honor. He has been an elected member on the Council for both the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society and European Society for Biomaterials Society. Prof Pandit has published more than 180 papers in peer-reviewed journals, filed numerous patent applications and has licensed four technologies to medical device companies.  In recognition of his track record in technology transfer Prof. Pandit secured the Academic/Emerging Medical technology Company of the Year – Silver Award for 2013 awarded by the Irish Medical Devices Association, Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland. Prof Pandit is an Executive Editorial Board of the Tissue Engineering journal, an Associate Editor of the Biomaterials journal. In addition he serves as an Editorial Board Member for 14 other journals. He has co-ordinated three EU grants to date.

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