
Akash Shambharkar, PhD, MRSB
@ig_8mile
Doctoral candidate at Queen’s university Belfast. #BacterioPhage #ColdPlasma #Endolysin #Biofilm #UTIs #CAUTIs #Retired Esports player
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QUB Pharmacy School offers a world-leading research environment and abundant opportunities for personal and professional growth in a supportive and welcoming community. Further information about the scheme can be found on Queen's University website. qub.ac.uk/Research/our-r… #MCSA

If you’re interested in cold plasmas for biofilm control and enhancing drug delivery, and developing a MSCA proposal in a global top 20 school QUB Pharmacy School I’d love to support you -please send CV and proposal summary by April 30th - scheme details below: qub.ac.uk/Research/our-r…

🎙️ On today’s episode, we talk with @colinhillucc, Professor at University College Cork. Want to learn more about the gut microbiome and phages? Just play this episode! We discuss his research on phage-bacteria coexistence and the discovery of crAssphages.


Thanks to Tom Coenye for visiting Belfast and delivering an outstanding seminar to biofilm researchers QUB Pharmacy School - we had a couple of great days hosting you and talking #biofilms


Massive congratulations 🎉 to Ross Duncan for passing his PhD viva yesterday, very proud supervisor, it’s been a pleasure working with you along with Vicky Kett QUB Pharmacy School - huge thanks to Prof Tom Coenye and Deirdre Gilpin for examining and Timofey Skvortsov for chairing


Part three of our BSNM 2025 “Meet the Keynote” series! Today we introduce Professor Jonathan Coulter, and his talk on the golden age of radiotherapy - improving treatment outcomes with a molecular targeted radiosensitising gold nanoparticle Prof Jonathan Coulter


🚨⏳ Three weeks left to apply for this exciting fully-funded (home students) PhD position with Eva Heinz and me at StrathPharm&Bio in Glasgow. Come and join us! #phage #enterococcus



Huge thanks to Prof. María José Alonso for a brilliant Hamilton Medal Lecture at QUB Pharmacy School👏 A packed audience enjoyed fascinating insights into nanomedicine, drug delivery & oncology—followed by a lively Q&A session. #HamiltonMedal #PharmaceuticalScience #QUB #QUBPharmacy





Congratulations to Dr Garry Laverty from QUB Pharmacy School, who has been awarded a prestigious Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship for 2025. During the twelve-month fellowship, Dr Laverty’s research will focus on developing his innovative long-acting peptide




I am grateful for this opportunity to highlight some of the innovative #phage research we are conducting at QUB Pharmacy School. We are focused on investigating bacteriophages for medical, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and biotechnological applications.

Our Molecular Cell Spotlight on the Hailong anti-phage system from the Kranzusch lab! This defense uses "ssDNA tripwires" to trigger toxic ion channels 🧬⚡☠️ Fun write with Johannes Kühn!!

RptR is a new addition to the growing collection of phage defence-associated transcriptional regulators. Congrats to YuGeng Zhang Tang Lab, Oxford Marion Schuller Ivan Ahel Lab and thank you, it was a pleasure to help out the study! New England Biolabs. academic.oup.com/nar/article/53…

Great news! Our spin-out company Re-Vana Therapeutics Re-Vana Tx, has secured a landmark $1 billion pharma deal that places #NorthernIreland at the forefront of cutting-edge global #MedicalInnovation. The major collaboration with pharmaceutical leader Boehringer Ingelheim
