About
Dr
Tanya Levingstone
Funded Investigator
Dr Tanya Levingstone is an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering. She also holds an adjunct academic position at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). She is the Assistant Director of the Advanced Processing Technologies Centre in DCU, a member of DCU Bio-design Europe Institute, a funded investigator within I-Form and a member of both the Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Metallic Systems (CDT-AMT) and SFI Centre for Research Training in Artificial Intelligence (CRT-AI). She completed her PhD in the National Centre for Plasma Science and Technology (NCPST) in DCU. Her Postdoctoral research, carried out in the RCSI, focussed on cartilage tissue engineering. She now leads a biomaterials/tissue engineering research group in DCU and has secured research funding of over €1M since joining DCU in 2016.
Research Interests (Lay Summary)
Dr Levingstone’s research programme lies in the areas of bioengineering, material science, natural and synthetic biomaterials and tissue engineering. She leads a multidisciplinary research group that is focussed on the development of new bioengineering approaches to existing healthcare challenges with the overall aim of achieving improvements in population health. This research is focused on the development of new therapeutic biomaterials for orthopaedic applications and novel biomaterial-based 3D model systems to aid in understanding disease progression. Her work in this area has a strong translational focus and has led to the successful licencing of a novel scaffold for osteochondral defect repair and demonstration of its safety in a preliminary clinical trial. This research has been developed through strong clinical and industrial collaborations.