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Academic Biography
Muhammad Safwan Akram is working at School of Health and Life Sciences as a Principal Lecturer (Associate Prof.) in Biological & Process Engineering. He has previously worked as an Assistant Professor at University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. Safwan obtained his PhD in Analytical Biotechnology from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge where he also did his post-doc developing low cost diagnostics. Prior to that he completed his M.Phil in Bioscience Enterprise under the auspices of Cambridge/MIT Partnership. His work has been published in reputed journals like Nature Biotechnology, Lab on a Chip & Annual Reviews of Analytical Chemistry. He has been awarded Medimmune Award and CambridgeSens Innovative Idea award for research excellence. He provides consultancy to venture capital funds, biotech and pharma companies. During his academic career, he has taught courses on Protein design and engineering, Recombinant DNA Technology and Stem Cells, Biosensors, Technology Enterprise and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology.
Safwan was voted by the students to win university wide Star award for most outstanding teaching . Safwan is also serving as the Enterprise champion for School of Science, Engineering & Design.
Summary of Research Interests
- Low cost diagnostics for various biotechnology applications
- Biomimetics for sensors and fermentation applications
- Bioactive scaffolds for Tissue Engineering
- Exploring relationship between Inclusion Bodies (IBs) and cell viability through genomic and proteomic tools
- Paper based diagnostics to determine drug quality
- Polymorphism in amyloid proteins
- Start up valuations of Biotech businesses
Safwan’s lab is looking for PhD students for the above-mentioned projects. If interested e-mail him directly.
Safwan’s laboratory has won £140’000 funding from Innovate UK to develop protein purification strategies based on glycosylation patterns. The laboratory is working in close collaboration with Glycoselect Ltd. The laboratory has won further funding to the tune of £117’000 from ERDF to work on the development of cost effective production of biochemicals used in Haemostatis testing in collaboration with Hart Innovations Ltd.
Enterprise Interest and Activities
Dr. M. Safwan Akram has been involved with a start-up “YourBug” and a pharma company named “Renacon Pharma”. He is always on a look out for projects worth commercialising and making a difference to society.
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KTP - Development of a dashboard for Quorn proteome
Taylor, G., Scrivens, J., Montague, G. & Akram, S.
1/02/20 → 28/02/22
Project: Research
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THYME: Increasing protein production by exploiting stable protein aggregation
Akram, S., Thomas, G. & Springthorpe, V.
1/04/19 → 31/03/20
Project: Research
Research output
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Paper-based microfluidic point-of-care diagnostic devices
Yetisen, A. K., Akram, M. S. & Lowe, C. R., 21 Jun 2013, In: Lab on a Chip. 13, 12, p. 2210-2251 42 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Tailor-made recombinant prokaryotic lectins for characterisation of glycoproteins
Fernandez-Poza, S., Padros, A., Thompson, R., Butler, L., Islam, M., Mosely, J. A., Scrivens, J. H., F Rehman, M. & Akram, M. S., 27 Feb 2021, In: Analytica Chimica Acta. 1155, 338352.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Challenges for biosimilars: focus on rheumatoid arthritis
Akram, S., Pery, N., Butler, L., Shafiq, M. I., Batool, N., ur Rehman, M. F., Grahame-Dunn, L. G. & Yetisen, A. K., 11 Oct 2020, In: Critical Reviews in Biotechnology. 33 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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First principles study of electronic and nonlinear optical properties of A–D–π–A and D–A–D–π–A configured compounds containing novel quinoline–carbazole derivatives
Khalid, M., Ali, A., Jawaria, R., Asghar, M. A., Asim, S., Khan, M. U., Hussain, R., ur Rehman, M. F., Ennis, C. & Akram, S., 10 Jun 2020, In: RSC Advances. 2020, 37, p. 22273-22283 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Characterisation of intact hemoglobin variants utilising a cyclic ion mobility-enabled quadrupole time-of-flight (Q-cIM-oaToF) mass spectrometer
Alkawi, AHMAD., Scrivens, J., Taylor, G., Akram, S., Palmer, M., Ujma, J., Giles, K., Williams, J. & Edgeworth, M., 2019, p. WP483.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review
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CCDC 1442341: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
Sarfraz, M. (Creator), Sultana, N. (Creator), Rashid, U. (Creator), Akram, S. (Contributor), Sadiq, A. (Creator) & Tariq, M. I. (Creator), CCDC, 1 Feb 2017
DOI: 10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc1kdw4z, http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/services/structure_request?id=doi:10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc1kdw4z&sid=DataCite
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CCDC 1509031: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
Sarfraz, M. (Creator), Sultana, N. (Creator), Rashid, U. (Creator), Akram, S. (Contributor), Sadiq, A. (Creator) & Tariq, M. I. (Creator), CCDC, 1 Feb 2017
DOI: 10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc1mn8fz, http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/services/structure_request?id=doi:10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc1mn8fz&sid=DataCite
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CCDC 1442364: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
Sarfraz, M. (Creator), Sultana, N. (Creator), Rashid, U. (Creator), Akram, S. (Contributor), Sadiq, A. (Creator) & Tariq, M. I. (Creator), CCDC, 1 Feb 2017
DOI: 10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc1kdwwq, http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/services/structure_request?id=doi:10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc1kdwwq&sid=DataCite
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