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Schemes for Engineers in Research and Development
Research Fellowships: Profiles
Dr Ruth Wilcox - University of Leeds
Vertoplasty: innovations in cement application
 Dr
Ruth Wilcox won her EPSRC/Royal Academy of
Engineering Fellowship in 2002. Her five years of
research under the scheme focussed on a new kind of
treatment for spinal fractures. The treatment,
called ‘vertebroplasty’, involves the injection of a
cement material into the fractured vertebra.
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Dr Ian Kinloch - Manchester University
Carbon Nanotubes in Advanced Engineering Materials
 Dr Ian Kinloch holds a Royal
Academy of Engineering/EPSRC Research Fellowship in
Carbon Nanotubes in Advanced Engineering Materials
at the University of Manchester. This highly prized
Fellowship has provided him with the freedom to
start building his own research group in the
direction of his choice.
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Dr Eleanor Stride, University College London
Characterisation and Design of Coated Microbubble Agents for the Detection and Treatment of Cancer
 Eleanor
Stride began her degree in Mechanical Engineering at
University College London (UCL) in 1998 with the
intention of pursuing a career in industrial design.
This seemed the ideal choice for someone with
combined interests in both science and design and a
fascination with way things work and making them
work better.
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