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Professor Abhay Pandit is the Established Professor in Biomaterials and Founding Director of a Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research in Medical Devices (CÚRAM) hosted at the University of Galway. Professor Pandit’s research focuses on utilizing glycosylation patterns from human pathological disease states to create innovative strategies for modulating these states using advanced reservoir delivery vehicles. These vehicles have a high payload capacity, programmable degradation profiles, and incorporate gradients of physical, chemotropic, and protective cues, which allow for the sustained delivery of multiple biomolecules to target injury mechanisms at the molecular and cellular levels. Professor Pandit's research emphasizes the application of glycobiology in this field. He is the author of 28 patents and licensed four technologies to medical device companies. He has published over 350 manuscripts, including esteemed journals such as Science Translational Medicine, PNAS, Science Advances, Nature Communications, Biomaterials, and other notable high-impact publications. He has been honored with the esteemed George Winter Award 2022, the Chandra P Sharma Award 2023, and the Biomaterials Advances Innovation Award 2023 for his research contributions to biomaterials. He is also a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), Tissue Engineering, and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS), Irish Academy of Engineering, and the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering (IUSBSE). He is currently the President Elect of TERMIS (Global). 

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