• Visiting PhD Student, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, 2023-2024
  • PhD Student, Department of Chemistry and Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick 2021-2025
  • Industrial Placement in Formulation Development, Cell and Gene Therapy, GlaxoSmithKline 2019-2020
  • BSc in Biomedical Sciences with a Sandwich Year, Department of Biosciences, University of Kent 2017-2021

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1038-5306

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Research Interests

Natalia is interested in researching biophysical and biochemical methods to improve the cryopreservation of mammalian cells. During her PhD, she has explored the benefit of using macromolecular cryoprotectants to improve cell cryopreservation in monolayer and suspension formats (ACS Macro Letters, 2022 and ACS Polymers Au, 2022). Her main PhD project focuses on improving immune cell recovery and function after cryopreservation by modulating cellular biochemical pathways, such as the ROCK signalling pathway using the small-molecule Fasudil (RSC Medicinal Chemistry, 2023). She is also researching methods to enable high-throughput cryopreservation of immune cells using multi-well plates and testing their compatibility to standard cryovials.

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