Anita Ghag qualified with a BSc (Hons) in Biomedical Materials Science from the University of Nottingham in 2007. She went on to study for a PhD in Biomaterials Science based on the development of electrospun synthetic bone graft substitutes at the University of Manchester in 2010, after which she took up a post-doctoral research associate position within The School of Materials at the University of Manchester as a continuation of the PhD project funded by Johnson and Johnson and the NIHR. Anita joined the University of Birmingham in 2012 as a post-doctoral research associate at the School of Dentistry investigating the effects of titanium nanoparticles on a number of different cell types. In September 2013, Anita was appointed as a lecturer in Biomaterials in the School of Chemical Engineering. She now teaches and supervises undergraduate and postgraduate students within the school

Ghag, A.K., Gough, J.E., and Downes, S. (2013), The osteoblast and osteoclast responses to phosphonic acid containing poly(ε-caprolactone) electrospun scaffolds, Biomaterials Science, in press. Bassi, A.K., Gough, J.E., and Downes, S. (2012), A novel phosphonate for the repair of critical size bone defects, The Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 6: 833–840 Bassi, A.K., Gough, J.E., Zakikhani, M., and Downes, S. (2011), The Chemical and Physical Properties of Poly(ε-Caprolactone) Scaffolds Functionalised with Poly(Vinyl Phosphonic Acid-Co-Acrylic Acid), Journal of Tissue Engineering, doi:10.4061/2011/615328