Dame Molly Morag Stevens is the John Black Professor of Bionanoscience at the University of Oxford's Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics. She is Deputy Director of the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery and a member of the Department for Engineering Science and the Institute for Biomedical Engineering.

Dame Molly Stevens
Stevens at the Dubai Future Forum (2024)
Alma materUniversity of Bath (BPharm)
University of Nottingham (PhD)
AwardsWoolmer Lecture (2013)
Kabiller Young Investigator Award (2019)
FEBS/EMBO Women in Science Award (2021)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsRegenerative medicine
Biosensing
Tissue engineering[2]
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
ThesisAtomic force microscopy studies of biomolecular adhesion and mechanics (2000)
Websitehttps://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/research/stevens-group

She studied at the University of Bath, where she graduated with a First Class Honours BPharm degree. She subsequently obtained a PhD degree from the University of Nottingham for research using atomic force microscopy to investigate adhesion and mechanics.[4][5]

Career and research

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Following her doctoral research, she moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining Imperial College in 2004 then University of Oxford in 2023.

In 2004 Stevens founded The Stevens Group, a multidisciplinary research group of bioengineers, materials scientists, chemists, biologists, physicists and surgeons.[6]

Honours and awards

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2010: In 2010 she received the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) award for creativity in polymer science,[7] the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Rosenhain Medal[8] and the Norman Heatley Award for interdisciplinary research from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).[9] She serves as an Associate Editor of ACS Nano.[10]

2013: In 2013 she presented the Woolmer Lecture of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine. In 2013 she was awarded the prestigious Karen Burt Memorial Award from the Women's Engineering Society, given to the best newly chartered woman in engineering, applied science or IT.[11]

2018: She was appointed a trustee of the National Gallery of the United Kingdom in 2018.[12] She won the 2018 Institute of Physics (IOP) Rosalind Franklin Medal and Prize. In 2019 Stevens was elected a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States[13] and received the Kabiller Young Investigator Award.[14] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2020.[15]

2021: In 2021 Stevens was the recipient of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) EMBO Women in Science Award.[16]

2023: In 2023 Stevens was awarded The Novo Nordisk Prize for her pioneering work in innovative bioengineering approaches.[17][18]

2024: In 2024 Stevens was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to medicine.[19]

References

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  1. ^ "Plenary Lectures".
  2. ^ Molly Stevens publications indexed by Google Scholar  
  3. ^ "Molly Stevens". Life Scientific. 15 November 2011. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  4. ^ Stevens, Molly Morag (2000). Atomic force microscopy studies of biomolecular adhesion and mechanics. nottingham.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Nottingham. OCLC 53555402. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.342023.
  5. ^ Professor Molly Stevens FREng FRS - website The Stevens Group
  6. ^ "The Stevens Group". The Stevens Group. 22 December 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  7. ^ IUPAC website, March 2014
  8. ^ IOM3 Award winners 2010, 2010
  9. ^ RSC 2010 award winners, 2010
  10. ^ ACS Nano.
  11. ^ "Previous Karen Burt Award Winners | Women's Engineering Society". www.wes.org.uk. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  12. ^ "Prime Minister Appoints 2 Trustees to the National Gallery". GOV.UK.
  13. ^ "National Academy of Engineering Elects 86 Members and 18 Foreign Members". Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  14. ^ "Molly Stevens of Imperial College London receives Kabiller Young Investigator Award". Northwestern University.
  15. ^ "Outstanding scientists elected as Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society | Royal Society". royalsociety.org.
  16. ^ "Molly Stevens receives the FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award 2021 – Press releases – EMBO". 10 February 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  17. ^ "Professor Molly Stevens wins 2023 Novo Nordisk Prize | Imperial News | Imperial College London". Imperial News. 22 February 2023. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  18. ^ "Professor Dame Molly Stevens receives the Novo Nordisk Prize". www.dpag.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  19. ^ "No. 64269". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2023. p. N9.
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