Dr Marta Roldo
Biography
I graduated in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology at the University of Padova, Italy. After a postgraduate research placement funded by the European Oncolgy Institute of Milan working on PEGylation of avidin for tumour pretargeting, I joined the University of Vienna to investigate the mucoadhesive properties of thiolated chitosan.
She obtained her PhD from the University of Portsmouth, for her work on azopolymers for colonic drug delivery and became a lecturer at the same university in 2005. She is currently an Associate Professor in Biomaterials in the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences where she is investigating different biomedical applications of biomaterials from drug delivery, to anti-biofilm activity and tissue engineering.
My work on the chemical modification of chitosan has been recognised by the award of the International Association for Advanced Materials (IAAM) Scientist Medal in April 2023. I have recently been named on the Elsevier list of top 2% academics cited globally in 2022. I act as grant reviewer for international research councils in countries such as Poland, The Netherlands, Germany and Chile and have been appointed as panel member in the selection of grant awardees for the National Science Centre in Poland.
I work with a number of industrial partners on the development of tissue engineering scaffolds, characterisation of antimicrobial implant surfaces and the imaging of oral biofilm and quantification of its removal by different methods.
Research interests
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Hydrogels for drug delivery and tissue engineering
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3D printing of hydrogels
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Biomedical applications of carbon nanotube and silver nanowires
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Development of composite bioceramics
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Development of peptides drug delivery systems
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Bone and cartilage tissue engineering
- Visualisation and removal of oral biofilm
Research outputs
2024
In vitro development of a muscle-tendon junction construct using decellularised extracellular matrix: effect of cyclic tensile loading
Blunn, G., Iwasaki, N., Karali, A., Roldo, M.
1 Jul 2024, In: Biomaterials Advances. 161, 213873
Collagen and alginate hydrogels support chondrocytes redifferentiation in vitro without supplementation of exogenous growth factors
Blunn, G., Roldo, M., Roncada, T.
14 May 2024, In: ACS Omega. 9, 19, p. 21388–21400, 13p.
Comparison of two contrast-enhancing staining agents for use in X-ray imaging and digital volume correlation measurements across the cartilage-bone interface
Balcaen, T., Blunn, G., Davis, S., Karali, A., Kerckhofs, G., Pétré, M., Roldo, M., Zekonyte, J.
1 Apr 2024, In: Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials. 152, 10p., 106414
Biofabrication of nanocomposite-based scaffolds containing human bone extracellular matrix for the differentiation of skeletal stem and progenitor cells
Cidonio, G., Dawson, J. I., Kanczler, J. M., Kim, Y., Lanham, S., Oreffo, R. O. C., Rawlings, A., Roldo, M., Tozzi, G.
5 Mar 2024, In: Bio-Design and Manufacturing
Sporopollenin Capsules as Biomimetic Templates for the Synthesis of Hydroxyapatite and β-TCP
Antonijevic, M., Cerri, G., Dalton, H., De Mori, A., Quizon, D., Roldo, M., Yavuzyegit, B.
4 Mar 2024, In: Biomimetics. 9, 3, 14p., 159
Full-field strain measurements of the muscle-tendon junction using X-ray computed tomography and digital volume correlation
Blunn, G., Iwasaki, N., Karali, A., Roldo, M.
6 Feb 2024, In: Bioengineering. 11, 2, 16p., 162
Development of Muscle Tendon Junction in vitro Using Aligned Electrospun PCL Fibres
Blunn, G., Iwasaki, N., Karali, A., Roldo, M., Sensini, A.
24 Jan 2024, In: Engineered Regeneration
2023
Delivering hydrosoluble compounds through the skin: what are the chances?
Dalpiaz, A., Demartis, S., Donnelly, R. F., Gavini, E., Giunchedi, P., Guillot, A. J., Hutton, A., Larrañeta, E., Mazzarello, V., Melero, A., Rassu, G., Roldo, M.
5 Nov 2023, In: International Journal of Pharmaceutics. 646, 18p., 123457
Early degenerative changes in a spontaneous osteoarthritis model assessed by nanoindentation
Blunn, G. W., Davis, S. L., Karali, A., Roldo, M., Zekonyte, J.
23 Aug 2023, In: Bioengineering. 10, 9, 17p., 995
Development of a method to investigate strain distribution across the cartilage-bone interface in guinea pig model of spontaneous osteoarthritis using lab-based contrast enhanced X-ray-computed tomography and digital volume correlation
Blunn, G., Davis, S., Karali, A., Roldo, M., Zekonyte, J.
1 Aug 2023, In: Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials. 144, 11p., 105999