Professor Alicia El Haj

Professor Alicia El Haj BSc, MSc, PhD, FREng, FRSB, FEAMBES

School of Chemical Engineering
Interdisciplinary Chair of Cell Engineering
Director of the Institute of Translational Medicine

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0) 121 371 7698
Email: a.elhaj@bham.ac.uk
Manpreet Bhatti - Diary management: m.bhatti@bham.ac.uk

Address: Healthcare Technologies Institute
Institute of Translational Medicine
Heritage Building (Old Queen Elizabeth Hospital)
Mindelsohn Way
Birmingham
B15 2TH

Alicia El Haj is the Interdisciplinary Professor of Cell Engineering at the Healthcare Technologies Institute and Director of the Institute of Translational Medicine, University 麻豆精选.

She is a leading figure in Bioengineering and Regenerative Medicine and has been involved in bringing together interdisciplinary groups within biomedicine, physical sciences and engineering, interested in aspects of cell and tissue engineering and regenerative medicine to move innovative new cell based therapies to the clinic. She has published over 200 publications in developing novel tissue engineering approaches using biomechanics, bioreactors, and imaging systems for the delivery of cell therapies to the clinic with funding from EPSRC, MRC, BBSRC, Versus Arthritis and ERC Advanced Grant

Alicia actively engages in public events having presented ‘Remote Control Healing’ at the Café Scientifique in Royal Society London and at the ‘Next Big Thing’ at the Hay Festival 2017.

Alicia El Haj is part of the Healthcare Technologies Institute (HTI), an interdisciplinary network of over 70 academics working together to advance new technologies and treatments that encourage better tissue healing and rehabilitation tools. The HTI brings together leading experts from a variety of disciplines across the University 麻豆精选, including chemical engineering, biomedical science, computer science, applied mathematics, chemistry and physics. Researchers across campus are working collaboratively to speed up the translation of new discoveries into health applications.

Qualifications

Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology
Fellow of the European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering and Science

Biography

Growing Bones - The Edge

Bone Cells - Alicia El Haj

2015 ACHLR 鈥� ESRC 鈥� Liability and Innovation The Defensive Medicine Debate Alicia El Haj

Professor Alicia El Haj, FREng, FRSB, FEAMBES, Interdisciplinary Professor of Cell Engineering, joined the Healthcare Technology Institute in the Institute of Translational Medicine at Birmingham University, UK in September 2018. Previously, she has been the founding Director of the Institute of Science & Technology in Medicine at Keele University Medical School. She is a leading figure in Bioengineering and Regenerative Medicine and has been involved in bringing together interdisciplinary groups within biomedicine, physical sciences and engineering interested in aspects of cell and tissue engineering and regenerative medicine to move innovative new cell based therapies to the clinic. She has published over a 200 publications in novel tissue engineering approaches such as biomechanics, bioreactors, and imaging systems for the delivery of cell therapies to the clinic with funding from EPSRC, MRC, BBSRC, AR UK and an ERC Advanced Award in 2018. She is also Director of a spin out company MICA Biosystems , Ltd involved in translating innovative in vitro pharma screening tools and stem cell control systems into clinical use.

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She is Deputy Director of the MRC UKRMP Regen Med Hub and a partner in ARUK Centre in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine as well as multiple EU programmes. She has been a Research Director of an EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre in Regenerative Medicine, 听and a co-director of the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing Centre in Regenerative Medicine. 听Prof. El Haj is ex-Chair of the European Council for the Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS).She was awarded with a Royal Society Merit Award in 2014 and is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK. In March 2015, she was awarded the MRC Suffrage Award for her role in leading women in STEM. Alicia actively engages in public events having presented 鈥楻emote Control Healing鈥� at the Caf茅 Scientifique in Royal Society London and at the 鈥楴ext Big Thing鈥� at the Hay Festival 2017.

Other activities

Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology
Fellow of the European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering and Science
Founding member of the UK Tissue and Cell Engineering Society and President from 2003-2008
Deputy Director of the MRC UKRMP Regen Med Hub
Co-director of the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing Centre in Regenerative Medicine
President of the UK Bioengineering Society

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Nahar, T, Gates, M, Secret, E, Siaugue, J-M, Fresnais, J, Rotherham, M, Fuller, HR, Brown, SJ, El Haj, AJ & Telling, ND 2025, '', Acta Biomaterialia, vol. 193, pp. 215-230.

Henstock, JR, Price, JCFA & El Haj, AJ 2024, '', Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 1141-1151.

Imere, A, Foster, N, Hajiali, H, Okur, KE, Wright, A, Barroso, IA & El Haj, A 2024, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 14, no. 1, 15022 .

Gothard, D, Rotherham, M, Smith, EL, Kanczler, JM, Henstock, J, Wells, JA, Roberts, CA, Qutachi, O, Peto, H, Rashidi, H, Rojo, L, White, LJ, Stevens, MM, El Haj, AJ, Rose, FRAJ & Oreffo, ROC 2024, '', Mechanobiology in Medicine.

Kennedy, JI, Davies, SP, Hewett, PW, Wilkinson, AL, Oo, YH, Lu, W-Y, El Haj, AJ & Shetty, S 2024, '', Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, vol. 12, 1359451.

Lamont, HC, Wright, AW, Devrie, K, Okur, KE, Jones, M, Masood, I, Hill, LJ, Nazhat, SN, Grover, LM, Haj, AJE & Metcalfe, AD 2024, '', Acta Biomaterialia.

Mason, JH, Luo, L, Reinwald, Y, Taffetani, M, Hallas-Potts, A, Herrington, CS, Srsen, V, Lin, C-J, Barroso, IA, Zhang, Z, Zhang, Z, Ghag, AK, Yang, Y, Waters, S, El Haj, AJ & Bagnaninchi, PO 2023, '', Communications Biology, vol. 6, no. 1, 543.

Abstract

Hosni, RA, Moakes, R, Chary, K, Ramakrishnan, NK, Muhammad, H, Kaggie, J, El Haj, AJ, Birch, M & McCaskie, A 2024, '', Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, vol. 32, no. Supplement 1, pp. S275-S276.

Hajiali, H & El Haj, A 2023, '', Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) European Chapter Meeting 2023, Manchester, United Kingdom, 28/03/23 - 31/03/23.

Conference contribution

Hajiali, H & El Haj, A 2023, . in BioMedEng23, September 14-15, 2023 Swansea, UK.

Poster

Hajiali, H, Rotherham, M & El Haj, A 2024, '', Joint TCES // CDT 2024 Conference, 19/06/24 - 21/06/24.

Hajiali, H, Rotherham, M & El Haj, A 2024, '', TERMIS 2024 world Congress, 25/06/24 - 28/06/24.

Review article

Wu, K, Wang, J-P, Natekar, NA, Ciannella, S, Gonz谩lez-Fern谩ndez, C, Gomez-Pastora, J, Bao, Y, Liu, J, Liang, S, Wu, X, Nguyen T Tran, L, Mercedes Paz Gonz谩lez, K, Choe, H, Strayer, J, Iyer, PR, Chalmers, J, Chugh, VK, Rezaei, B, Mostufa, S, Tay, ZW, Saayujya, C, Huynh, Q, Bryan, J, Kuo, R, Yu, E, Chandrasekharan, P, Fellows, B, Conolly, S, Hadimani, RL, El-Gendy, AA, Saha, R, Broomhall, TJ, Wright, AL, Rotherham, M, El Haj, AJ, Wang, Z, Liang, J, Abad-D铆az-de-Cerio, A, Gandarias, L, Gubieda, AG, Garc铆a-Prieto, A & Fdez-Gubieda, ML 2025, '', Nanotechnology, vol. 36, no. 4, 042003.

Luo, L, Okur, KE, Bagnaninchi, PO & El Haj, AJ 2024, '', Frontiers in Biomaterials Science, vol. 3, 1323763.

Ashmore-Harris, C, Antonopoulou, E, Finney, SM, Vieira, MR, Hennessy, MG, Muench, A, Lu, W-Y, Gadd, VL, El Haj, AJ, Forbes, SJ & Waters, SL 2024, '', npj Regenerative Medicine, vol. 9, no. 1, 19.