Dr. Suwan Jayasinghe

The NewScientist.com article Missing a few brain cells? Print new ones said

A printer that spits out ultra-fine droplets of cells instead of ink has been used to print live brain cells without causing them any apparent harm. The technique could open up the possibility of building replacement tissue cell by cell, giving doctors complete control over the tissue they graft.
 
The device is a variant of a conventional ink-jet printer. Instead of forcing individual droplets of ink through a needle-shaped nozzle and onto the page, the cell printer uses a powerful electric field to produce droplets just a few micrometres in diameter, far smaller than is achievable by other means…
 
The “electro-spray”, developed by Suwan Jayasinghe of University College London along with Peter Eagles and Amer Qureshi at King’s College London, has for the first time been able to produce droplets as small as a few micrometres in diameter, each containing only a handful of living cells.

Dr. Suwan Jayasinghe started his academic career in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Brunel University where he was awarded both his first and second degrees in Engineering. He then joined the Materials Department at Queen Mary, University of London where he read for his doctorate in Engineering, which he completed in 2002. In January 2005 he was awarded a RCUK Academic Fellowship (Professor Sir Gareth Roberts Academic Fellow). He has published over 35 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has given talks in China, Australia, USA and in Europe.
 
Suwan was awarded the following medals at the Houses of Parliament, United Kingdom: The De Montfort Medal for excellence in Science, Engineering, Medicine and Technology and The Leonardo Da Vinci Gold Medal for excellence in Engineering Sciences.
 
He is Junior Member of The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, UK Associate Member of The Institute of Mechanical Engineers, UK, Graduate Member of The Institute Materials, Minerals and Mining, UK, Member of the American Physical Society, Member of the Gesellschaft für Aerosolforschung (GAeF), Germany, Member of The Aerosol Society, UK and Member of the American Association for Aerosol Research.
 
Suwan coauthored Electrostatic Atomization of a Ceramic Suspension at Pico-Flow Rates in Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing, High Resolution Print Patterning of a Nano-suspension in Journal of Nanoparticle Research, In-Vitro Assessment of the Biological Response to Nano-sized Hydroxyapatite in Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, and Electric-field Driven Jetting from Dielectric Liquids in Applied Physics Letters.
 
His main research areas are Aerosol sciences, Electrostatic atomization and Microfluidics, Solid freeforming, Molecular dynamics and Advanced analytical techniques, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Finite Element Analysis, Aerodynamics, Turbomachinery and Propulsion.
 
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