Dr Tina Chowdhury
BSc, MSc, PhD, PGCAP, SFHEA
Senior Lecturer in Regenerative Medicine
SEMS EDI & Athena Swan Lead
Intercalated BSc Programme Director and Admissions
Engineering 117, Mile End
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Brief Biography
Tina Chowdhury joined QMUL as a PDRA and was appointed an Academic Fellow (2005), Lecturer (2008) and Senior Lecturer (2012). She was awarded a Drapers Fellowship (2014-17), the Queen Mary ADEPT Senior Fellowship (2018) and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2018). Tina's work in developing education and outreach innovations has been recognised by the prestigious Times Higher Education (2014), Reimagine Education (2016), Royal Academy of Engineering (2018, 2022), Story Futures Academy (2021). She chairs the SEMS EDI Steering Group and EDI Committee particularly focusing on STEAMM diversity. She leads a successful Athena Swan application in engineering awarded to the School in January 2024.
Tina is leading research projects with a value of £4.5M. She has published 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals and presented 100 abstracts at national and international conferences. Her work in regenerative medicine aims to identify therapeutics that slow down inflammation and repair tissue using human models. She serves on the editorial board and referee panel for several journals and her doctoral research students have won many research prizes at international conferences such as ISPD or best paper in the journal Prenatal Diagnosis.
Tina is an external examiner (Imperial 2019-2023; Manchester 2023-2028) and module organiser for 5 courses. She leads in the development of interdisciplinary programmes across the Science & Engineering and Medicine & Dentistry Faculty. She is the Programme Director for the Intercalated BSc in Biomedical Engineering. She has won many prizes and project grants with a value of £300,000 to enhance and diversify STEMM education eg. virtual lab (www.youtube.com/watch?v=baA46qSvGrY).
Tina leads a number of initiatives in community public engagement events and has given 30 plenary presentations and organised 50 events in partnership with the Ideas Foundation, Royal Academy of Engineering, Canon, BBC, UK Space Agency. Examples include "Engineer Your Story", "Picture An Engineer", the "bioengineering experience" and "Staying Strong-Joints in Space".
For the latest news about Tina's work, visit "research news" and Twitter @ttchowdhury
Tina is leading research projects with a value of £4.5M. She has published 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals and presented 100 abstracts at national and international conferences. Her work in regenerative medicine aims to identify therapeutics that slow down inflammation and repair tissue using human models. She serves on the editorial board and referee panel for several journals and her doctoral research students have won many research prizes at international conferences such as ISPD or best paper in the journal Prenatal Diagnosis.
Tina is an external examiner (Imperial 2019-2023; Manchester 2023-2028) and module organiser for 5 courses. She leads in the development of interdisciplinary programmes across the Science & Engineering and Medicine & Dentistry Faculty. She is the Programme Director for the Intercalated BSc in Biomedical Engineering. She has won many prizes and project grants with a value of £300,000 to enhance and diversify STEMM education eg. virtual lab (www.youtube.com/watch?v=baA46qSvGrY).
Tina leads a number of initiatives in community public engagement events and has given 30 plenary presentations and organised 50 events in partnership with the Ideas Foundation, Royal Academy of Engineering, Canon, BBC, UK Space Agency. Examples include "Engineer Your Story", "Picture An Engineer", the "bioengineering experience" and "Staying Strong-Joints in Space".
For the latest news about Tina's work, visit "research news" and Twitter @ttchowdhury