Dr Frankie Rawson has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship

Dr Frankie Rawson has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship which will be tenured in the Laboratory of Biophysics and Surface Analysis within the School of Pharmacy from the 1st of October. His research interests are to develop smart novel electrochemical nano-systems for studying and controlling cellular processes on a molecular scale. This involves fundamental studies of charge transfer from prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells in addition to break through methodologies of surface functionalization and control on the nano-scale.

The Leverhulme Fellowship will allow Dr Rawson to make further progress in the newly emerging field of electroceutics. In the Fellowship he aims to wire into eukaryotic plasma membrane redox sites using functional conducting nanostructures, the objective of which is to understand the fundamental properties governing electron transfer to the external environment, which can underpin disease state in cancer. Moreover, by coupling the sensing capability of the nanosensors with functionality, Dr Rawson aims to control the disease state of cancer cells by electrochemically inhibiting the external electron transfer events.