Alexander Cook
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RESEARCH PROFILE
Alexander B. Cook is a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at the Eindhoven University of Technology with Professor Jan van Hest. He is currently investigating lipid-polymer materials, macromolecule self-assembly, and information transfer in coacervate artificial cells. His research combines the fields of advanced synthetic polymer chemistry, with soft matter engineering methods applied to biological questions.
The combination of natural building blocks with synthetic polymers has given rise to exciting opportunities to do both interesting research and create new materials with promising industrial and biomedical applications.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Previously, he spent a period as scientist at the biotech eTheRNA Immunotherapies working on lipid nanoparticle mRNA delivery systems, and also at the Italian Institute of Technology in the group of Professor Paolo Decuzzi. He has a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Warwick where he worked with Professor Sebastien Perrier on the synthesis and application of branched polymer architectures. From 2022 he is a member of the Early Career Board of the journal ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering. Dr. Cook has received several grants and awards, such as the CAS Future Leaders Award, Marie Curie individual and cofund fellowships, and is (co)inventor on two patent applications.
Recent Publications
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Alexander B. Cook,Bruno Delgado Gonzalez,Jan C.M. van Hest
Tuning of Cationic Polymer Functionality in Complex Coacervate Artificial Cells for Optimized Enzyme Activity
Biomacromolecules (2024) -
Alexander B. Cook,Annalisa Palange,Michele Schlich,Elena Bellotti,Sayanti Brahmachari,Martina Di Francesco,Paolo Decuzzi
Matrix metalloproteinase responsive hydrogel microplates for programmed killing of invasive tumour cells
RSC Applied Polymers (2023) -
Alexander B. Cook,Sebastian Novosedlik,Jan C.M. van Hest
Complex Coacervate Materials as Artificial Cells
Accounts of Materials Research (2023) -
Jason T. Duskey,Alexander B. Cook,Gabriella Costabile,Giovanni Tosi,Michele Schlich
An overview of current drug delivery strategies for glioblastoma treatment and barriers to progress
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Thomas L. Moore,Alexander B. Cook,Elena Belotti,Roberto Palomba,Purnima Manghnani,Raffaele Spano,Sayanti Brahmachari,Martina Di Francesco,Anna Lisa Palange,Daniele Di Mascolo
Shape-specific microfabricated particles for biomedical applications: a review
Drug Delivery and Translational Research (2022)
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