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The Academy of Medical Sciences has awarded Dr. Robert Owen, a researcher at the University of Nottingham ’s School of Pharmacy , a grant to study how physical surface geometry influences cell behavior, with the goal of building those cues directly into healthcare materials.

The grant is part of a £6.7 million tranche the Academy distributed across 55 early career researchers at 38 UK institutions through its Springboard program .

Owen’s project uses ultra-high-resolution 3D printing to build materials with precisely engineered surface features, such as microscale curves, and then observe how cells involved in bone healing and skin repair respond to them.…