Mia Woodruff

Prof Mia Woodruff leads the Biofabrication and Tissue Morphology Group. She attained her PhD in 2006 and has published over 120 papers and has been a CI on over $3 million in research grants. She is an expert in bone tissue engineering with extensive experience in all aspects of biomaterial scaffold fabrication techniques and pre-clinical models and has built a world-leading histology laboratory. She is the recipient of a QUT Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellowship and ARC APD Fellowship.

Mia was awarded the Women in Technology QLD Life Sciences Research Leader Award in 2018 as well as a QUT Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence. In 2017, Mia was awarded the Rose-Anne Kelso Commemorative Award for her “endeavours, passion and dedication to the health and life sciences industry”. Mia was also awarded second place (highly commended) in the WIT “Rising Star” award category in 2012 and nominated for the Biotech researcher award in 2013. She was also the winner of the Queensland Young Tall Poppy Science Award in 2013 and in 2014 was recognised in Qweekend’s 50 Best and Brightest.

Mia’s exciting vision is of a future where the fabrication of patient-specific replacement tissue and organs is safe, cost-effective and routine. This dream drives her fascinating research to advance the high-tech sciences of tissue engineering and biofabrication.

Areas of Research

• Composite scaffolds for tissue engineering
• Advanced non invasive scanning
• Anatomical modelling and 3D printing
• Electrospinning – melt and solution
• In vivo models for bone regeneration
• Cell culture and in vitro biocompatibility studies for new biomaterials
• Microsphere production for growth factor delivery
• Histology and uCT assessment of biomaterial implants
• Large animal models, large bone explants (including metallic) advanced histology processing using PMMA resin embedding

Companies

• Professor QUT (Queensland University of Technology) (2017)
• Vice Chancellors' Senior Research Fellow | Bone and Biomaterials Queensland University of Technology (2008)
• Associate Professor and Group leader QUT (Queensland University of Technology) (2013 — 2017)
• Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow (APDI) QUT (2010 — 2014)
• Research Fellow | Tissue Engineering National University of Singapore (2006 — 2008)
• Vacation placement student Smith and Nephew (2000 — 2000)

Education

• PhD University of Nottingham (2002 — 2006)
• BSc (First class honours) University of Nottingham (1998 — 2001)