Publications

Dual end-functionalisation of poly(beta-amino ester) gene delivery vectors using multicomponent chemistry

Lewis O'Shaughnessy, Rahman Khosravi, James Robins, Akosua Anane-Adjei, Mariarosa Mazza, Naoto Hori, Pratik Gurnani, Cameron Alexander

RSC Applied Polymers
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Engineering immunostimulatory nanocarriers: TLR7-agonist conjugated poly(beta-amino ester) mRNA delivery systems

Hulya Bayraktutan, Amr ElSherbeny, Rafał J. Kopiasz, Charlotte Galley, Nurcan Gumus, Clare L. Bennett, Cameron Alexander, Pratik Gurnani

Biomaterials Science
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Microfluidic engineering of pDNA nanogels in a coaxial flow reactor: process development, optimisation, scalability and in vitro performance

Suneha Patil, Zoe Whiteley, Esther Osarfo-Mensah, Arun Pankajakshan, Duncan Q. M. Craig, Stefan Guldin, Pratik Gurnani, Asterios Gavriilidis

Nanoscale Advances
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Modular Supramolecular Polycations Enable Efficient Delivery of Diverse RNA Therapeutics and Vaccines

Rafał Jerzy Kopiasz, Hadijatou J. Sallah, Robert J. Cavanagh, Sal Jones, Cara Moloney, Lewis O'Shaughnessy, Phoebe McCrorie, Ala’ Salem, Hulya Bayraktutan, Aimée S. Jeluk, Luke A. Granger, Francois Hallac, Alison A. Ritchie, Shreeya Parmar, Anna M. Grabowska, Poulam Patel, Srinivasan Madhusudan, Ruman Rahman, Alan McIntyre, Robin J. Shattock, Charalampos Makatsoris, Roger Coulston, Andrew M. Howe, Pratik Gurnani, Snjezana Stolnik, John S. Tregoning, Cameron Alexander

Advanced Materials
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P178 Poly (β-amino ester) nanoparticle delivery of microRNA-23a-3p and microRNA-150-5p protects intestinal barrier function against colitogenic toxins

Tanya Monaghan, Rahman Khosravi, Maria Hatziapostolou, Fisentzos Floras, Madeline Berrow, Benjamin Fiedler, Sarah Kuehne, David Scurr, Anna Seekatz, Cameron Alexander, Pratik Gurnani, Christos Polytarchou

BMJ Publishing Group
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Poly(acrylamido) PEG-alternatives Enhance mRNA-LNP Efficacy in Immune Cells and Evade Anti-PEG Antibodies after Repeated Dosing

Benjamin M. Fiedler, Charlotte Galley, Margarita Strimaite, Nga Man Cheng, Najet Mahmoudi, Zhiping Feng, Tammy Kalber, Maria-Jose Martinez-Bravo, Chris Morris, Jenny K. W. Lam, Daniel J. Stuckey, Gareth R. Williams, Clare L. Bennett, Pratik Gurnani

bioRxiv
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Poly(beta-amino esters): applications in immunology

Hulya Bayraktutan, Rafał J. Kopiasz, Amr Elsherbeny, Pratik Gurnani, Cameron Alexander

Chemical Science
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35(+1) challenges in materials science being tackled by PIs under 35(ish) in 2025

Aisha N. Bismillah, Alessandro Bismuto, Anna Blakney, Sebastien Callens, Céline Calvino, Stefano Crespi, Ricardo Cruz-Acuña, Andrew Daly, Locke Davenport Huyer, Jamie H. Docherty, Liam Donnelly, Joel A. Finbloom, Pratik Gurnani, Robert Hein, Jennifer Johnstone-Hack, Susan E. Leggett, Nadine Leisgang, Jason Y. C. Lim, Kevin Neumann, Liliang Ouyang, Omar Rifaie-Graham, Charles Romain, Rebecca J. Salthouse, Baihao Shao, Flávia Sousa, Arnaud Thevenon, Ryojun Toyoda, Alexander E. Vlahos, Christina Wegeberg, Jonathan P. Wojciechowski, Ruoxiao Xie, Rong Yang, Jonathan Yeow, Parisa Yousefpour, Nattawut Yuntawattana, Qi Zhang, Connor Wells

Matter
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Characterisation of polymeric nanoparticles for drug delivery

Thomas G. Floyd, Pratik Gurnani, Julia Y. Rho

Nanoscale
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Immunomodulator loaded microneedle arrays for targeted intradermal drug delivery to skin tumors

Akmal H. Sabri, Fiona Smith, Zachary Cater, Pratik Gurnani, Ami Nash, Victoria Brentville, Lindy Durrant, John McKenna, Joel Segal, David J. Scurr, Maria Marlow

Drug Delivery
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Mushrooms to brushes: Tackling the PEG dilemma in mRNA lipid nanoparticles with complex polymers

Kidus E. Biru, Benjamin M. Fiedler, Pratik Gurnani

Matter
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Synthesis and cell-induced luminescence of post-functionalisable ionisable polyesters from the Passerini 3-component polymerisation

Lewis O'Shaughnessy, Akosua Anane-Adjei, Mariarosa Mazza, Naoto Hori, Pratik Gurnani, Cameron Alexander

Polymer Chemistry
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Charge neutralized poly(β-amino ester) polyplex nanoparticles for delivery of self-amplifying RNA

Nazgol Karimi Dastgerdi, Nurcan Gumus, Hulya Bayraktutan, Darryl Jackson, Krunal Polra, Paul F. McKay, Fatemeh Atyabi, Rassoul Dinarvand, Robin J. Shattock, Luisa Martinez-Pomares, Pratik Gurnani, Cameron Alexander

Nanoscale Advances
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Ciprofloxacin Poly(β-amino ester) Conjugates Enhance Antibiofilm Activity and Slow the Development of Resistance

Karolina Kasza, Brogan Richards, Sal Jones, Manuel Romero, Shaun N. Robertson, Kim R. Hardie, Pratik Gurnani, Miguel Cámara, Cameron Alexander

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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Connecting inflammatory bowel and neurodegenerative diseases: microRNAs as a shared therapeutic intervention

Tanya M. Monaghan, Aslihan Ugun-Klusek, Mattea Finelli, Pratik Gurnani, Lisa Chakrabarti, Dina Kao, Cameron Alexander, Christos Polytarchou

BMJ Publishing Group
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Investigating oligo(ethylene glycol) methacrylate thermoresponsive copolymers

Fatimah, Pratik Gurnani, Gareth R. Williams

European Polymer Journal
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Polysarcosine functionalised cationic polyesters efficiently deliver self-amplifying mRNA

Hulya Bayraktutan, Rafał J. Kopiasz, Amr Elsherbeny, Magda Martinez Espuga, Nurcan Gumus, Umut Can Oz, Krunal Polra, Paul F. McKay, Robin J. Shattock, Paloma Ordóñez-Morán, Alvaro Mata, Cameron Alexander, Pratik Gurnani

Polymer Chemistry
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Sparsely PEGylated poly(beta-amino ester) polyplexes enhance antigen specific T-cell response of a bivalent SARS-CoV-2 DNA vaccine

Hulya Bayraktutan, Peter Symonds, Victoria A. Brentville, Cara Moloney, Charlotte Galley, Clare L. Bennett, Alvaro Mata, Lindy Durrant, Cameron Alexander, Pratik Gurnani

Biomaterials
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Design of Quorum Sensing Inhibitor–Polymer Conjugates to Penetrate Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms

Fadi Soukarieh, Pratik Gurnani, Manuel Romero, Nigel Halliday, Michael Stocks, Cameron Alexander, Miguel Cámara

ACS Macro Letters
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Fabrication and characterisation of poly(sulfonated) and poly(sulfonic acid) dissolving microneedles for delivery of antibiotic and antifungal agents

Akmal Hidayat Bin Sabri, Qonita Kurnia Anjani, Pratik Gurnani, Juan Domínguez-Robles, Natalia Moreno-Castellanos, Li Zhao, Aaron Hutton, Ryan F. Donnelly

International Journal of Pharmaceutics
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Direct routes to functional RAFT agents from substituted N-alkyl maleimides

Rosa Catania, Ruggero Foralosso, Lampros Spanos, Emanuele Russo, Francesca Mastrotto, Pratik Gurnani, Kevin Butler, Huw Williams, Snow Stolnik, Giuseppe Mantovani

Polymer Chemistry
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Investigating histidinylated highly branched poly(lysine) for siRNA delivery

Ali Alazzo, Nurcan Gumus, Pratik Gurnani, Snjezana Stolnik, Ruman Rahman, Keith Spriggs, Cameron Alexander

Journal of Materials Chemistry B
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Oxygen-Tolerant RAFT Polymerization Initiated by Living Bacteria

Mechelle R. Bennett, Cara Moloney, Francesco Catrambone, Federico Turco, Benjamin Myers, Katalin Kovacs, Philip J. Hill, Cameron Alexander, Frankie J. Rawson, Pratik Gurnani

ACS Macro Letters
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Probing the Effect of Rigidity on the Cellular Uptake of Core-Shell Nanoparticles: Stiffness Effects are Size Dependent

Pratik Gurnani, Carlos Sanchez-Cano, Helena Xandri-Monje, Junliang Zhang, Sean H. Ellacott, Edward D. H. Mansfield, Matthias Hartlieb, Robert Dallmann, Sébastien Perrier

Small
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Challenges and solutions in polymer drug delivery for bacterial biofilm treatment: A tissue-by-tissue account

Karolina Kasza, Pratik Gurnani, Kim R. Hardie, Miguel Cámara, Cameron Alexander

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews
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Combining Inducible Lectin Expression and Magnetic Glyconanoparticles for the Selective Isolation of Bacteria from Mixed Populations

Joshua E. Petch, Pratik Gurnani, Gokhan Yilmaz, Francesca Mastrotto, Cameron Alexander, Stephan Heeb, Miguel Cámara, Giuseppe Mantovani

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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Controlled radical polymerization in dispersed systems for biological applications

Pratik Gurnani, Sébastien Perrier

Progress in Polymer Science
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Functionalisation and stabilisation of polymeric arsenical nanoparticles prepared by sequential reductive and radical cross-linking

Joji Tanaka, Alexander Evans, Pratik Gurnani, Andrew Kerr, Paul Wilson

Polymer Chemistry
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Intradermal delivery of imiquimod using polymeric microneedles for basal cell carcinoma

Akmal H. Sabri, Zachary Cater, Pratik Gurnani, Jane Ogilvie, Joel Segal, David J. Scurr, Maria Marlow

International Journal of Pharmaceutics
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Ornithine-derived oligomers and dendrimers for in vitro delivery of DNA and ex vivo transfection of skin cells via saRNA

Francesca Saviano, Tatiana Lovato, Annapina Russo, Giulia Russo, Clément R. Bouton, Robin J. Shattock, Cameron Alexander, Fabiana Quaglia, Anna K. Blakney, Pratik Gurnani, Claudia Conte

Journal of Materials Chemistry B
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PCR-RAFT: rapid high throughput oxygen tolerant RAFT polymer synthesis in a biology laboratory

Pratik Gurnani, Thomas Floyd, Joji Tanaka, Christopher Stubbs, Daniel Lester, Carlos Sanchez-Cano, Sébastien Perrier

Polymer Chemistry
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Polymer microarrays rapidly identify competitive adsorbents of virus-like particles

Andrew J. Blok, Pratik Gurnani, Alex Xenopoulos, Laurence Burroughs, Joshua Duncan, Richard A. Urbanowicz, Theocharis Tsoleridis, Helena Müller-Kräuter, Thomas Strecker, Jonathan K. Ball, Cameron Alexander, Morgan R. Alexander

Biointerphases
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Surface polymer imprinted optical fibre sensor for dose detection of dabrafenib

Chenyang He, Ulises Hernandez Ledezma, Pratik Gurnani, Thais Albelha, Kristofer J. Thurecht, Ricardo Correia, Stephen P. Morgan, Poulam Patel, Cameron Alexander, Sergiy Korposh

The Analyst
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The In Vitro, Ex Vivo, and In Vivo Effect of Polymer Hydrophobicity on Charge-Reversible Vectors for Self-Amplifying RNA

Pratik Gurnani, Anna K. Blakney, Roberto Terracciano, Joshua E. Petch, Andrew J. Blok, Clément R. Bouton, Paul F. McKay, Robin J. Shattock, Cameron Alexander

Biomacromolecules
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A study on the preparation of alkyne functional nanoparticles via RAFT emulsion polymerisation

Pratik Gurnani, Alexander B. Cook, Robert A. E. Richardson, Sébastien Perrier

Polymer Chemistry
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Heparin-Mimicking Sulfonated Polymer Nanoparticles via RAFT Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly

Pratik Gurnani, Caroline P. Bray, Robert A. E. Richardson, Raoul Peltier, Sébastien Perrier

Macromolecular Rapid Communications
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Hyperbranched poly(ethylenimine-co-oxazoline) by thiol–yne chemistry for non-viral gene delivery: investigating the role of polymer architecture

Alexander B. Cook, Raoul Peltier, Junliang Zhang, Pratik Gurnani, Joji Tanaka, James A. Burns, Robert Dallmann, Matthias Hartlieb, Sébastien Perrier

Polymer Chemistry
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Microscale synthesis of multiblock copolymers using ultrafast RAFT polymerisation

Joji Tanaka, Pratik Gurnani, Alexander B. Cook, Satu Häkkinen, Junliang Zhang, Jie Yang, Andrew Kerr, David M. Haddleton, Sébastien Perrier, Paul Wilson

Polymer Chemistry
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Polydimethylsiloxane-Based Giant Glycosylated Polymersomes with Tunable Bacterial Affinity

Liam Martin, Pratik Gurnani, Junliang Zhang, Matthias Hartlieb, Neil R. Cameron, Ahmed M. Eissa, Sébastien Perrier

Biomacromolecules
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Pyridyl Disulfide Reaction Chemistry: An Efficient Strategy toward Redox-Responsive Cyclic Peptide–Polymer Conjugates

Qiao Song, Jie Yang, Stephen C. L. Hall, Pratik Gurnani, Sébastien Perrier

ACS Macro Letters
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Sulfonated Copolymers as Heparin-Mimicking Stabilizer of Fibroblast Growth Factor: Size, Architecture, and Monomer Distribution Effects

Caroline Bray, Pratik Gurnani, Edward D. H. Mansfield, Raoul Peltier, Sébastien Perrier

Biomacromolecules
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Hydrogel and Organogel Formation by Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Cyclic Peptides Nanotubes

Huda Shaikh, Julia Y. Rho, Laura J. Macdougall, Pratik Gurnani, Andrew M. Lunn, Jie Yang, Steve Huband, Edward D. H. Mansfield, Raoul Peltier, Sebastien Perrier

Chemistry – A European Journal
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RAFT Emulsion Polymerization as a Platform to Generate Well-Defined Biocompatible Latex Nanoparticles

Pratik Gurnani, Carlos Sanchez-Cano, Kristin Abraham, Helena Xandri-Monje, Alexander B. Cook, Matthias Hartlieb, Francis Lévi, Robert Dallmann, Sébastien Perrier

Macromolecular Bioscience
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Self-assembly and disassembly of stimuli responsive tadpole-like single chain nanoparticles using a switchable hydrophilic/hydrophobic boronic acid cross-linker

Junliang Zhang, Joji Tanaka, Pratik Gurnani, Paul Wilson, Matthias Hartlieb, Sébastien Perrier

Polymer Chemistry
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Synthesis of mannosylated and PEGylated nanoparticles via RAFT emulsion polymerisation, and investigation of particle-lectin aggregation using turbidimetric and DLS techniques

Pratik Gurnani, Andrew M. Lunn, Sébastien Perrier

Polymer
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