Dr Maria Chiara Arno

School of Chemistry
Birmingham Fellow
Associate Professor in Polymeric Biomaterials

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 4372
Email: m.c.arno@bham.ac.uk
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Address: University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Maria Chiara Arno (Chiara) is a Birmingham Fellow, working across the School of Chemistry and the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences.

With a background in polymer chemistry and nanoparticle design, Dr Arno’s research interests span across a diverse range of disciplines, including Polymer Chemistry, Materials Science, and Life Sciences. Her current research is focussed on the development of novel cell-based therapies and materials. A particular focus is on the development of cell engineering technologies with polymeric materials that find application as cancer therapeutics and cell-based materials. If you would like to know more of the lab research and opportunities to join, please visit .

Dr Arno is also a part of the Birmingham Plastics Network, an interdisciplinary team of more than 40 academics working together to shape the fate and sustainable future of plastics. This unique team brings together chemists, environmental scientists, engineers, philosophers, linguists, economists, artists, writers, lawyers, and experts in many other fields, to holistically address the global plastics problem.

Qualifications

PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, 2015
MSc in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology, 2011

Biography

Dr Arno studied Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology at the University of Padova (Italy) from 2006 to 2011. She undertook her final year project at King’s College London, sponsored by an Erasmus scholarship, on the development of fluorescent therapeutic peptides.

She then moved to the UK in 2012 to take up a PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at King’s College London under the supervision of Prof. Robert Hider and Dr Sukhi Bansal. Her doctoral work focused on the development of peptide-like drugs for the treatment of pathologies linked to a dysregulation in iron metabolism.

Dr Arno was awarded her PhD in 2015, and then took up a Research Fellow position at the University of Warwick, investigating the biological interactions of polymeric nanoparticles and 3D scaffolds in vitro and in vivo with Prof. Andrew Dove. In 2018, the group moved to the University 麻豆精选 and she took up a Group Leader role in the Dove group, leading the Biomaterials research strand.

Dr Arno was appointed as an Assistant Professor in Polymeric Biomaterials.

Postgraduate supervision

Please contact Dr Arno directly if you are interested in postgraduate opportunities.

Research

Research Themes

Mammalian cell and yeast engineering
Functional polymers
Bioorthogonal chemistry
Cancer metastasis
In vivo tumour detection
Cell-based materials

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Arno, MC, Simpson, J, Blackman, L, Brannigan, R, Thurecht, K & Dove, A 2023, '', Biomaterials Science, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 908-915.

Rigby, AM, Alipio, AR, Chiaradia, V & Arno, MC 2023, '', Biomacromolecules, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. 3370-3379.

Xia, T, Tong, Z, Xie, Y, Arno, MC, Lei, S, Xiao, L, Rho, JY, Ferguson, CTJ, Manners, I, Dove, AP & O'Reilly, RK 2023, '', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 145, no. 46, pp. 25274-25282.

Tong, Z, Xie, Y, Arno, MC, Zhang, Y, Manners, I, O'Reilly, R & Dove, A 2023, '', Nature Chemistry.

Brooks, SL, Arno, MC, Dove, A & Weems, A 2022, '', ACS Applied Polymer Materials, vol. 4, no. 8, pp. 5670鈥�5679.

Petersen, S, Prydderch, H, Worch, J, Stubbs, C, Wang, Z, Yu, J, Arno, MC, Dobrynin, A, Becker, ML & Dove, A 2022, '', Angewandte Chemie (International Edition) , vol. 61, no. 17, e202115904.

Dove, A, Weems, A, Arno, MC, Yu, W & Huckstepp, RTR 2021, '', Nature Communications, vol. 12, no. 1, 3771.

Yu, W, Maynard, E, Chiaradia, V, Arno, MC & Dove, A 2021, '', Chemical Reviews, vol. 121, no. 18, pp. 10865-10907.

Wandel, M, Bell, CA, Yu, J, Arno, MC, Dreger, N, Hsu, Y-H, Pitto-barry, A, Worch, J, Dove, A & Becker, ML 2021, '', Nature Communications, vol. 12, no. 1, 446.

Fanjul-Mosteirin, N, Aguirresarobe, R, Sadaba, N, Larra帽aga, A, Marin, E, Martin, J, Ramos-Gomez, N, Arno, MC, Sardon, H & Dove, A 2021, '', Chemistry of Materials, vol. 33, no. 18, pp. 7194-7202.

Bexis, P, Arno, MC, Bell, CA, Thomas, AW & Dove, A 2021, '', Chemical Communications , vol. 57, no. 35, pp. 4275-4278.

Weems, A, Perez Madrigal, MDM, Arno, MC & Dove, A 2020, '', Biomacromolecules, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 1037-1059.

Worch, JC, Weems, AC, Yu, J, Arno, MC, Wilks, TR, Huckstepp, RTR, O'Reilly, RK, Becker, ML & Dove, AP 2020, '', Nature Communications, vol. 11, no. 1, 3250.

Arno, MC 2020, '', Macromolecular Rapid Communications, vol. 41, no. 18, 2000302.

Review article

Pearce, AK, Wilks, T, Arno, MC & O'Reilly, R 2021, '', Nature Reviews Chemistry, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 21鈥�45.