Dr Christopher Chapman
Lecturer in Bioengineering
Biomedical Engineering Programme Director (Undergraduate)
Outreach and Recruitment Lead of The Centre for Bioengineering
School of Engineering and Materials Science
Queen Mary University of London
Queen Mary University of London
Research
Bioelectronics, Implanted devices, Cancer neuroscience, Conductive polymers, Electrical stimulation + recording, Laser-based fabrication
Interests
Bioelectronics design and fabrication for central nervous system and peripheral nervous system targets. Expertise in using both metals and conducting polymers to create soft and flexible bioelectronic implants via laser-based and traditional microfabrication.Publications
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Bioengineering2025
P07.15.A ELECTROACTIVE DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE FOR TARGETED INTRATUMORAL THERAPYKILLILEA J Lee A Miceli G Cuttaz E Van Der Auweraert I Kontrimaite U Landeira-Suquia L De Ferm R et al.
Neuro-Oncology, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 27 (Supplement_3), iii80-iii80.
03-10-2025
“Spin‐Rinse and Repeat”: Facile Processing to Improve Cytocompatibility of Poly(3,4‐Ethyelenedioxythiophene): Polystyrene Sulfonate Composites for BioelectronicsKillilea J Lee A Cuttaz EA Miceli GC Suquia LL Goding JA Chapman CAR Green RA
Advanced Nanobiomed Research, Wiley vol. 5 (5)
13-04-2025
2024
3D printed electro-responsive system with programmable drug releaseAlkahtani ME Sun S Chapman CAR Gaisford S Orlu M Elbadawi M Basit AW
Materials Today Advances, Elsevier vol. 23
01-08-2024
Polymer Bioelectronics: A Solution for Both Stimulating and Recording ElectrodesCuttaz EA Bailey ZK Chapman CAR Goding JA Green RA
Advanced Healthcare Materials, Wiley vol. 13 (24)
31-05-2024
Surgical identification of brain tumour margins through impedance monitoring and electrocorticography and the potential for their combined use: A systematic reviewGeorgiannakis A Chapman CAR Paraskevopoulos D
Neurosurgical Review, Springer Nature vol. 47 (1)
01-01-2024
2023
Controlled electroactive release from solid-state conductive elastomer electrodesChapman CAR Fernandez-Patel S Jahan N Cuttaz EA Novikov A Goding JA Green RA
Materials Today Bio, Elsevier vol. 23
28-11-2023
Electroactive Polymers for On‐Demand Drug ReleaseAlkahtani ME Elbadawi M Chapman CAR Green RA Gaisford S Orlu M Basit AW
Advanced Healthcare Materials, Wiley vol. 13 (3)
12-11-2023
Surface electromyography using dry polymeric electrodesSteenbergen N Busha I Morgan A Mattathil C Pinto AL Spyridakos F Sokolovskiy I Tahirbegi B et al.
Apl Bioengineering, Aip Publishing vol. 7 (3)
01-09-2023
A Pilot In Vivo Study of Flexible Fully Polymeric Nerve Cuff Electrodes*Cuttaz EA Syed O Chapman CAR Goding JA Bailey ZK Portillo-Lara R Green RA
2023 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC). vol. 00, 1-4.
01-07-2023
2022
Preparation of Rat Sciatic Nerve for Ex Vivo NeurophysiologyRapeaux A Syed O Cuttaz E Chapman CAR Green RA Constandinou TG
Journal of Visualized Experiments, Myjove (185)
12-07-2022
Preparation of Rat Sciatic Nerve for Ex Vivo NeurophysiologyRapeaux A Syed O Cuttaz E Chapman CAR Green RA Constandinou TG
Journal of Visualized Experiments, Myjove (185)
12-07-2022
2021
Flexible Networks of Patterned Conducting Polymer Nanowires for Fully Polymeric BioelectronicsChapman CAR Cuttaz EA Tahirbegi B Novikov A Petkos K Koutsoftidis S Drakakis EM Goding JA et al.
Advanced Nanobiomed Research, Wiley vol. 2 (3)
04-12-2021
Flexible Nanowire Conductive Elastomers for Applications in Fully Polymeric Bioelectronic Devices *Cuttaz EA Chapman CAR Goding JA Vallejo-Giraldo C Syed O Green RA
2021 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC). vol. 00, 5872-5875.
01-11-2021
Mind the gap: State-of-the-art technologies and applications for EEG-based brain–computer interfacesPortillo-Lara R Tahirbegi B Chapman CAR Goding JA Green RA
Apl Bioengineering, Aip Publishing vol. 5 (3)
20-07-2021
Stretchable, Fully Polymeric Electrode Arrays for Peripheral Nerve StimulationCuttaz EA Chapman CAR Syed O Goding JA Green RA
Advanced Science, Wiley vol. 8 (8)
05-02-2021
Model-based geometrical optimisation and in vivo validation of a spatially selective multielectrode cuff array for vagus nerve neuromodulationAristovich K Donega M Fjordbakk C Tarotin I Chapman CAR Viscasillas J Stathopoulou T-R Crawford A et al.
Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Elsevier vol. 352
28-01-2021
2020
Stretchable bioelectronics: Mitigating the challenges of the percolation threshold in conductive elastomersNovikov A Goding J Chapman C Cuttaz E Green RA
Apl Materials, Aip Publishing vol. 8 (10)
01-10-2020
Actively controlled local drug delivery using conductive polymer-based devicesChapman CAR Cuttaz EA Goding JA Green RA
Applied Physics Letters, Aip Publishing vol. 116 (1)
03-01-2020
3D Cell Culture Systems for the Development of Neural InterfacesSyed O Chapman C Vallejo-Giraldo C Genta M Goding J Kanelos E Green R
In Neural Interface Engineering, Springer Nature 201-236.
01-01-2020
2019
Optimisation of bioimpedance measurements of neuronal activity with an ex vivo preparation of Cancer pagurus peripheral nervesChapman CAR Smith TM Kelly M Avery J Rouanet T Aristovich K Chew DJ Holder DS
Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Elsevier vol. 327
13-08-2019
Model-based geometrical optimisation and in vivo validation of a spatially selective multielectrode cuff array for vagus nerve neuromodulationAristovich K Donega M Fjordbakk C Tarotin I Chapman C Viscasillas J Stathopoulou T-R Crawford A et al.
In Arxiv
29-03-2019
Optimal frequency range for electrical impedance tomography of neural activity in peripheral nerveHope J Aristovich K Chapman C Vanholsbeeck F McDaid A
2019 9th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER). vol. 00, 332-335.
23-03-2019
Extracting impedance changes from a frequency multiplexed signal during neural activity in sciatic nerve of rat: preliminary study in vitroHope J Aristovich K Chapman CAR Volschenk A Vanholsbeeck F McDaid A
Physiological Measurement, Iop Publishing vol. 40 (3)
01-03-2019
Extracting impedance changes from a frequency multiplexed signal during neural activity in sciatic nerve of rat: preliminary study in-vitroHope J Aristovich K Chapman CAR Volschenk A Vanholsbeeck F McDaid A
In Arxiv
07-01-2019
Mechanically Robust Soft Bioelectronics: Towards Conductive Elastomers with a Low Percolation ThresholdNovikov A Goding J Chapman C Cuttaz E Green R
In Ssrn Electronic Journal
01-01-2019
2018
Electrode fabrication and interface optimization for imaging of evoked peripheral nervous system activity with electrical impedance tomography (EIT)Chapman CAR Aristovich K Donega M Fjordbakk CT Stathopoulou T-R Viscasillas J Avery J Perkins JD et al.
Journal of Neural Engineering, Iop Publishing vol. 16 (1)
16-11-2018
2017
Multifunctional Neural Interfaces for Closed‐Loop Control of Neural ActivityChapman CAR Goshi N Seker E
Advanced Functional Materials, Wiley vol. 28 (12)
28-08-2017
Nanostructure Introduces Artifacts in Quantitative Immunofluorescence by Influencing Fluorophore IntensityChapman CAR Zhu X Chen H Yanik AA Lein PJ Seker E
Scientific Reports, Springer Nature vol. 7 (1)
27-03-2017
Neural Interfaces: Nanoporous Gold Biointerfaces: Modifying Nanostructure to Control Neural Cell Coverage and Enhance Electrophysiological Recording Performance (Adv. Funct. Mater. 3/2017)Chapman CAR Wang L Chen H Garrison J Lein PJ Seker E
Advanced Functional Materials, Wiley vol. 27 (3)
01-01-2017
2016
Nanoporous Gold Biointerfaces: Modifying Nanostructure to Control Neural Cell Coverage and Enhance Electrophysiological Recording PerformanceChapman CAR Wang L Chen H Garrison J Lein PJ Seker E
Advanced Functional Materials, Wiley vol. 27 (3)
12-12-2016
Mechanisms of Reduced Astrocyte Surface Coverage in Cortical Neuron-Glia Co-cultures on Nanoporous Gold SurfacesChapman CAR Chen H Stamou M Lein PJ Seker E
Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, Springer Nature vol. 9 (3), 433-442.
31-05-2016
Utilizing dynamic laser speckle to probe nanoscale morphology evolution in nanoporous gold thin filmsChapman CAR Ly S Wang L Seker E Matthews MJ
Optics Express, Optica Publishing Group vol. 24 (5), 5323-5333.
02-03-2016
Engineering on-chip nanoporous gold material libraries via precision photothermal treatmentChapman CAR Wang L Biener J Seker E Biener MM Matthews MJ
Nanoscale, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc) vol. 8 (2), 785-795.
01-01-2016
Substrate topography guides pore morphology evolution in nanoporous gold thin filmsChapman CAR Daggumati P Gott SC Rao MP Seker E
Scripta Materialia, Elsevier vol. 110, 33-36.
01-01-2016
2015
Nanoporous Gold as a Neural Interface Coating: Effects of Topography, Surface Chemistry, and Feature SizeChapman CAR Chen H Stamou M Biener J Biener MM Lein PJ Seker E
Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 7 (13), 7093-7100.
02-03-2015
2013
Microfabrication of nanoporous gold patterns for cell-material interaction studies.Daggumati P Kurtulus O Chapman CAR Dimlioglu D Seker E
Journal of Visualized Experiments, Myjove (77)
15-07-2013
Microfabrication of Nanoporous Gold Patterns for Cell-material Interaction StudiesDaggumati P Kurtulus O Chapman CAR Dimlioglu D Seker E
Journal of Visualized Experiments, Myjove (77)
15-07-2013
Simple surface treatment of conjugated polymers for enhanced cell adhesion using UV-OzoneWestwood MM Gilhooly-Finn PA Trueman RP Mumtaz A Gregory H Daoud JPA Dey A Palgrave R et al.
In Chemrxiv
Neuromodulation of a peripheral nerve using fully polymeric cuff electrodes: Understanding predictability of selective stimulationBailey Z Nairac Z Cuttaz EA M’Rad IB Chapman CAR Rapeaux A Goding J Roche A et al.
In Biorxiv
Grants
Grants of specific relevance to the Centre for BioengineeringOligodendronics: Engineering biology for scalable neural interfacesChristopher Chapman
£403,666 ARIA Advanced Research and Invention Agency
Grant Summary
01-07-2025 - 31-12-2026
Development of multimodal tumour margin detection paradigm for use in neurosurgical oncologyChristopher Chapman
£74,990 Barts and the London Charity
Grant Summary
31-03-2025 - 31-03-2026
Customizable conducting elastomers for bioelectronics sensorsChristopher Chapman
£20,000 Royal Society
Grant Summary
01-10-2024 - 30-09-2025
Research Group
Research Staff
PhD Students
- Joshua Daoud
Brain Tumour Recurrence Model on a Chip - Ester Do Couto Lopes
Project Title: Multimodal Bioelectronic Sensor Development For Real-Time Monitoring of The Brain Tumour Microenvironment Research Topic: Development of New Conductive Elastomer Materials For Use in Developing The Bioelectronic Sensors For Chronic Brain Tumour Measurement. Currently Ester Is Primarily Doing Polymer Synthesis / Electrochemical Measurements / and Material Casting So This Is Reflected in The Panel. Will Update At Later Progression Points to Have a Cancer Biology Related Member / Clinician as Well. - Hasitha Senevirathne
Coact Cdt Training Programme
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