UK scientist wins award for medical plastic work

^{Professor Andrew Dove, University of Birmingham, has won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Norman Heatley Award for 2018.}

It was awarded for Dove’s contributions to the chemistry-biology interface through the design and study of novel degradable biomaterials for medical applications.

Born in Scunthorpe, Dove joined the university’s School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham as Professor of Chemistry.

The Norman Heatley Award aims to recognise and promote the importance of inter- and multi-disciplinary research between chemistry and the life sciences through independent work.

Part of Dove’s work is focussed on the development and application of degradable biomaterials and sustainable polymers. Fundamentally based around the discovery of new materials and methodologies by which to make them, the Dove group works with engineers, biologists and medics across academia, hospitals and industry to drive its chemical discoveries towards application.