Dr Francisco Fernandez-Trillo PhD, MRC

Dr Francisco Fernandez-Trillo

School of Chemistry
Senior Lecturer in Polymer Synthesis

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0) 121 414 3155
Email
f.fernandez-trillo@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
@Paco_bham
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Address
School of Chemistry
Haworth Building
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Francisco Fernandez-Trillo (Paco) is working on the development of novel polymeric materials that can find applications at the Chemistry Biology-Interface, with a special focus in the development of novel antimicrobials.

With a background in Organic and Polymer Chemistry, Paco’s expertise spans across several disciplines including Natural Product Synthesis, Materials Science, the synthesis of Smart Scaffolds, and the preparation of complicated polymeric nanomaterials such as Dendrimers or Polymeric Vesicles. His research has found application in areas such as Drug Discovery and Synthesis, Biocatalysis, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Sensing, and Synthetic Biology. You can find more information about his research here .


Qualifications

  • Ph.D, Organic Chemistry, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC), 1999 - 2004
  • MChem, Organic Chemistry, , USC, 1998-1999
  • BSci, Chemistry, USC, 1993 - 1998
  • Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2011

Biography

Francisco Fernandez-Trillo (Paco) is a Birmingham Fellow working at the interface between Chemistry and Biology. In his group, synthetic chemistry is applied to design novel polymeric nanomaterials to address current challenges in Healthcare. At present, there is a strong emphasis in identifying innovative solutions to the increasing concern of antimicrobial resistance, as well as designing high-throughput screening strategies to identify novel biofunctional polymers. You can find more information about his research here.

Paco has co-authored over 30 peer reviewed international research publications in prominent journals, six review articles and one book chapter [orcid.org/0000-0002-6680-5683]. Paco has given over 40 talks and invited seminars nationally and internationally, and has received in excess of £980,000 from a range of sources including the John Evans Fellowship at UoB, H2020, the Royal Society, the Wellcome Trust, EPSRC and BBSRC. PFT is a peer reviewer for international journals (RSC, ACS and Elsevier) and leads the Biomolecular, Supramolecular and Nanoscale Chemistry Unit at the School of Chemistry.

Research

RESEARCH THEMES

 

  • Biomedical Applications of Nanotechnology

 

RESEARCH ACTIVITY

 

  • Stimuli-responsive nanomaterials as imaging probes to detect microbial pathogens
  • Nanomaterials to interfere with ‘non-conventional’ antimicrobial targets
  • Functional nanomaterials for the delivery of conventional antibiotics in a targeted way

 You can find more information about Paco's research here.

Publications

  • Cooper, G. J. T., Bowman, R. W, Magennis, E. P., Fernández-Trillo, F., Alexander, C., Padgett, M. J., and Cronin, L. (2012) Directed Assembly of Inorganic Polyoxometalate-based Micrometer-Scale Tubular Architectures by Using Optical Control. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 51, 12754–12758.
  • Yaşayan, G., Redhead, M., Magnusson, J. P., Spain, S. G., Allen, S., Davies, M. C., Alexander, C., and Fernández-Trillo, F. (2012) Well-defined polymeric vesicles with high stability and modulation of cell uptake by a simple coating protocol. Polym. Chem. 3, 2596–2604.
  • Xue, X., Pasparakis, G., Halliday, N., Winzer, K., Howdle, S. M., Cramphorn, C. J., Cameron, N. R., Gardner, P. M., Davis, B. G., Fernández-Trillo, F., and Alexander, C. (2011) Synthetic Polymers for Simultaneous Bacterial Sequestration and Quorum Sense Interference. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 50, 9852–9856.
  • Fernández-Trillo, F., van Hest, J. C. M., Thies, J. C., Michon, T., Weberskirch, R., and Cameron, N. R. (2009) Reversible Immobilization onto PEG-based Emulsion-templated Porous Polymers by Co-assembly of Stimuli Responsive Polymers. Adv. Mater. 21, 55–59.

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