Dr. Gareth Wynn Vaughan Cave is a Principal Lecturer in the School of Science and Technology at Nottingham Trent University. He earned his BSc in Medicinal Chemistry in 1995, an MSc in Pharmaceutical Analysis (Chemistry) in 1996, and a PhD in 1999 from the University of Warwick. He is a member of the Institute of Nanotechnology, the American Chemical Society, the Green Chemistry Network, the International Union of Crystallography, the Chartered Chemist, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. His main areas of interest are therapeutic transport devices, MRI/NMR contrast
agents, supramolecular chemistry, and green chemistry, with an emphasis on the physical–life sciences interface.
Dr. Samantha McLean is an Associate Professor of Infection Prevention and Control in the Department of Biosciences, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University. She received a BSc (Hons) degree in Microbiology at the University of Leeds in 2002 and a PhD in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from the University of Sheffield in 2007. She spent a further six years at the University of Sheffield as a Research Associate investigating the interaction of enterobacteria with small molecules of the innate immune response. She spent two years at the University of Nottingham as a Research Fellow researching the optimisation of industrial gas fermentation for commercial low-carbon fuel and chemical production, through systems and synthetic biology approaches. In February 2016, she took up the position of Lecturer in Microbiology at Nottingham Trent University and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2017 and to Associate Professor in 2024. She is a member of the Antimicrobial Resistance, Omics, and Microbiota (AROM) research theme, a microbiology academic lead for the Medical Technologies Innovation Facility (MTIF), and Director of the Blue Zone Consortium. Her research focuses on developing antimicrobial therapies and evaluating infection prevention and control implications, while developing materials and devices that aim to reduce the microbial burden.
