Dr Damia Mawad

Qualifications:

BSc (Chemistry), American University of Beirut, Lebanon
MSc  (Biomedical Engineering), University of New South Wales, Australia
PhD (Biomedical Engineering), University of New South Wales, Australia

Research interests:

  1. Development of novel polymeric biomaterials that can be ultimately used as implants for bio-applications
  2. Synthesis of biodegradable conducting polymers based on thiophene monomers with tailored properties
  3. Incorporation of therapeutic agents such as growth factors either by covalent binding or by physical entrapment while maintaining their biological activity
  4. Evaluation of drug delivery systems: loading, release rate and release profiles.

Key publications:

D. Mawad, P. Martens, LH. Koole, LA. Poole-Warren, and CSJ. van Hooy-Corstjens. Synthesis and characterisation of radiopaque iodine-containing degradable poly (vinyl alcohol) hydrogels. Biomacromolecules 2008; 9(1):263-8.

D. Mawad, JL. Foster, A. Lauto. Drug-delivery study and estimation of polymer-solvent interaction parameter for bisacrylate ester-modified pluronic
hydrogels. International Journal of Pharmaceutics 2008; 360: 231-235.

D. Mawad, P. Martens, L. Ferris, R. Odell, L. Poole-Warren. The effect of redox polymerisation on degradation and cell responses to poly (vinyl alcohol) hydrogels. Biomaterials 2007; 28(6):947-955.

email : damia@uow.edu.au
phone : 61 2 4298 1435
fax : 61 2 4298 1477
office : AIIM 231.239

Last reviewed: 28 September, 2009