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Dr Ruth Mackay

Job Title: Post Doctoral Research Fellow

Office: ML051, Michael Sterling Building

Phone: +44(0)1895 267378

Personal Web Site: http://www.bruneldoclab.com

Brief Bio Data:

Ruth graduated in Mechanical Engineering form the University of Dundee in 2007. She then worked as a research assistant developing simple disinfection methods for surgical implants. She gained her PhD from the University of Dundee in 2011 for the development of polymer micro-grippers with an integrated force sensor for biological manipulation; the work was funded by an EPSRC CASE award in collaboration with IDB Tehcnologies. In 2011 Ruth began work at Brunel University within a large team developing point of care diagnostic tests within the esti2 consortium.

Research Interests: BioMEMS (Biological Microelectromechanical Systems), microfluidics, micro-fabrication, surface characterisation, rapid prototyping, low cost diagnostics, medical devices and tissue engineering.

Publications

Journal Publications:

2013 R E Mackay, S Clark, H R Le, J A Williams, Polymer Micro-grippers with an Integrated Force sensor for Biological Manipulation, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. 23 015005
2012 H. R. Le, S. Qu, R. E. Mackay and R. Rothwell Fabrication and mechanical properties of chitosan composite membrane containing hydroxyapatite particles Journal of Advanced Ceramics Vol. 1, No. 1, (2012) pp. 66-71
2012 Z J Shou, H R Le, S Y Qu, R A Rothwell, R E Mackay. Fabrication and Mechanical Properties of Chitosan-Montmorillonite Nanocomposite. Key Engineering Materials Vols. 512-515 (2012) pp 1746-1750
2011 G.A. Thomson, M.S. Pridham, Y.L. Liu and R.E. Mackay, Disinfection of Clinical Materials Using Photo-Activated Tolonium Chloride Solution. Int. J. Medical Engineering and Informatics, Vol. 3, No. 4, (2011) pp. 381-393
2011 R.E.Mackay, N. Lionis, Huirong Le, 3D Surface Topography and Reflectivity of Anisotropic Etched Silicon Micromirrors for BioMEMS Microsystem Technologies, 17 (2011) pp. 1763-1770.
2011 R E Mackay, H R Le, R. P. Keatch, Design Optimisation and Fabrication of Electro-thermal Micro-grippers for Tissue Manipulation, Journal of Micro-Nano Mechatronics, Volume 6, Issue 1 (2011), pp. 13-22.
2009 Maher, P.S., Keatch, R.P., Donnelly, K., Mackay, R.E., Paxton, J.Z., Construction of 3D biological matrices using rapid prototyping technology (2009) Rapid Prototyping Journal, Volume 15 Issue 3 pp. 204-210.

Referred Conference Publications:

2011 R.E. Mackay, H.R. Le, L. Zhang, Fabrication And Micromechanical Testing Of Polymer Micro-Grippers With Compliant Force Sensing. Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference on Composites and Nano Engineering, Shanghai, China, 24-30 July 2011. (Presenter)
2011 R.E. Mackay, H.R.Le, S.Clark, R.P.Keatch, Polymer Micro-grippers with Compliant Force Sensor. Semiconductors 2k University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, June 21-22, 2011. (Presenter)
2009 R.E.Mackay, H. R. Le, R. P. Keatch, Q. Zhao, Manufacture of SU-8 Micro-grippers for Mechanical Characterization of Gut Epithelial Cells. Proceedings of 11th International Congress of the IUPESM, Munich, Germany, Sept 7-12, 2009. (Presenter)
2009 G. A. Thomson, R. Mackay, M. S. Pridham and Y. L. Liu, Disinfection of Surgical Materials Using Photo-Activated Tolonium Chloride Proceedings of 11th International Congress of the IUPESM, Munich, Germany, Sept 7-12, 2009.
2008 Mackay R.E., Le HR. Micro-gripping of Small Scale Tissues. 2008. IFMBE Proceedings 4th European Congress for Medical and Biological Engineering. Antwerp, Belgian, 23-27 November 2008. (Presenter)
2008 Ruth E Mackay, Huirong Le, Development of Micro-tweezers for Tissue Micro-manipulation, International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai, China, May 16-18, 2008.