School Of Pharmacy & Bioengineering Research - Keele University

This is the official Facebook page for Keele University School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering Research. The Institute for Science & Technology merges with the School of Pharmacy on 1st August 2019 to become the School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering.

Welcome to the Institute for Science & Technology in Medicine (ISTM).

ISTM aims to improve the health of patients by applying knowledge gained from basic science to develop insights into the causes of disease and ways of treating them. This “bench to bedside” approach brings together scientists and NHS clinicians from a range of backgrounds and specialties, in a high quality research environment and access to the latest facilities.

ISTM focusses its work into seven Themes, each with an international profile for research, for example some of the key areas are:

1. Bioengineering and the therapeutic use of stem cells.
2. Genetics and epigenetics, structural biology, cell biology, apoptosis.
3. Transmission of human disease by insects.
4. Novel imaging and diagnostics, eg to identify disease biomarkers.
5. Neurosciences, eg related to stroke, Parkinson’s disease, hearing loss.

The Institute formed in 2006 and carries out research in laboratories and clinical research facilities at Keele University campus and three main NHS hospitals: University Hospital of North Staffordshire (UHNS), the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt (RJAH) Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry and the Haywood Hospital, Stoke on Trent.

Most of our ~100 members and research staff, and ~90 research students are based at either the Guy Hilton Research Centre, UHNS, or the Huxley Building on Keele campus, which provide state of the art science laboratories, specialised equipment and facilities such as clean rooms, a dedicated patient research suite and the study space for very successful MSc programmes.