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Academic Biography
Muhammad Safwan Akram is working at School of Health and Life Sciences as Associate Professor 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
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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Creating a novel cell factory for glycopeptide antibiotic production
1/12/22 → 30/04/23
Project: Research
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Platform Cell Factory for the production of lipopolypeptides for cosmetic industry
Akram, S., Mosely, J. & Gao, H.
UKRI BBSRC - Industrial Biotech Innovation Centre (IBioIC)
1/12/21 → 30/11/25
Project: Research
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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
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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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Synthesis, Spectroscopic Characterization, DFT and Molecular Dynamics of Quinoline-based Peptoids
Akhter, S., Concepcion, O., de la Torre, A. F., Ali, A., Abdul Rauf Raza, A. R. R., Eman, R., Khalid, M., ur Rehman, M. F., Akram, S. & Ali, H. M., 13 Jan 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Arabian Journal of Chemistry. 104570.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Chemical Characterization, Antioxidant, Antimicrobial, Cytotoxicity and In-silico Studies of n-hexane Extract and Essential Oils from Citrus limon Leaves
Riaz, M., Qadir, R., Akhtar, M. T., Misbah Ur Rehman, M., Anwar, F., Eman, R., ur Rehman, M. F. & Akram, S., 15 Nov 2022, In: Chemistry and Biodiversity. 19, 12 p., e202200537.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Differential Proteomics of Helicobacter pylori Isolates from Gastritis, Ulcer, and Cancer Patients: First Study from Northwest Pakistan
Shah, S. A. R., Rahman, H., Qasim, M., Akram, S., Saygideger, Y., Puspita, N., Demir, B. S., Alzahrani, K. J., ur Rehman, M. F., Alzahrani, F. M. & Alblihd, M. A., 28 Aug 2022, In: Medicina. 58, 9, 13 p., 1168.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Evaluating Zn-Porphyrin-Based Near-IR-Sensitive Non-Fullerene Acceptors for Efficient Panchromatic Organic Solar Cells
Khan, M. U., Imran, M., ur Rehman, M. F., Assiri, M. A., Mashhadi, S. M. A., Akram, S. & Lu, C., 23 Aug 2022, In: ChemistryOpen. 11, 8, 14 p., e202200047.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Supplementary Information from Structural modulation of π-conjugated linkers in D–π–A dyes based on triphenylamine dicyanovinylene framework to explore the NLO properties
Khalid, M. (Creator), Khan, M. U. (Creator), Shafiq, I. (Creator), Hussain, R. (Creator), Ali, A. (Creator), Imran, M. (Creator), Braga, A. A. C. (Creator), Fayyaz Ur Rehman, M. (Contributor) & Akram, S. (Creator), figshare, 2021
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.15048708.v1, https://doi.org/10.6084%2Fm9.figshare.15048708.v1
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Supplementary material from "Structural modulation of π-conjugated linkers in D–π–A dyes based on triphenylamine dicyanovinylene framework to explore the NLO properties"
Khalid, M. (Creator), Khan, M. U. (Creator), Shafiq, I. (Creator), Hussain, R. (Creator), Ali, A. (Creator), Imran, M. (Creator), Braga, A. A. C. (Creator), Fayyaz Ur Rehman, M. (Contributor) & Akram, S. (Creator), figshare, 2021
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5527182.v1, https://rs.figshare.com/collections/Supplementary_material_from_Structural_modulation_of_-conjugated_linkers_in_D_A_dyes_based_on_triphenylamine_dicyanovinylene_framework_to_explore_the_NLO_properties_/5527182/1
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CCDC 1442364: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
Sarfraz, M. (Creator), Sultana, N. (Creator), Rashid, U. (Creator), Akram, S. (Creator), Sadiq, A. (Creator) & Tariq, M. I. (Creator), CCDC, 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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