Molly Stevens

Dame Molly Morag Stevens is the John

Professor
Black Professor of Bionanoscience at the
University of Oxford's Department of Dame Molly Stevens
DBE FRS FInstP FCGI FREng FRSC FIMMM FRSB
Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics. She is
FRPharmS
Deputy Director of the Kavli Institute for
Nanoscience Discovery and a member of the
Department for Engineering Science and the
Institute for Biomedical Engineering.

She studied at the University of Bath, where

she graduated with a First Class Honours
BPharm degree. She subsequently obtained
a PhD degree from the University of Stevens at the Dubai Future Forum (2024)
Nottingham for research using atomic force Alma mater University of Bath (BPharm)
microscopy to investigate adhesion and University of Nottingham (PhD)
mechanics.[4][5]
Awards Woolmer Lecture (2013)
Kabiller Young Investigator Award (2019)
FEBS/EMBO Women in Science Award
Career and research (2021)[1]

Following her doctoral research, she moved Scientific career

to Massachusetts Institute of Technology Fields Regenerative medicine

before joining Imperial College in 2004 then Biosensing
University of Oxford in 2023. Tissue engineering[2]
Institutions University of Oxford
In 2004 Stevens founded The Stevens Group
Thesis Atomic force microscopy studies of
(https://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/research/stevens
biomolecular adhesion and mechanics (http
-group), a multidisciplinary research group
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of bioengineers, materials scientists,
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chemists, biologists, physicists and
surgeons. [6]
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Honours and awards from the BBC programme Life Scientific, 15
November 2011.[3]
2010: In 2010 she received the International
Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Problems playing this file? See media help.
(IUPAC) award for creativity in polymer
Website https://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/research/stevens-
science,[7] the Institute of Materials,
group
Minerals and Mining Rosenhain Medal[8]
and the Norman Heatley Award for interdisciplinary research from the Royal Society of Chemistry
(RSC).[9] She serves as an Associate Editor of ACS Nano.[10]

2013: In 2013 she presented the Woolmer Lecture of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in
Medicine. In 2013 she was awarded the prestigious Karen Burt Memorial Award from the Women's
Engineering Society, given to the best newly chartered woman in engineering, applied science or IT.[11]

2018: She was appointed a trustee of the National Gallery of the United Kingdom in 2018.[12] She won
the 2018 Institute of Physics (IOP) Rosalind Franklin Medal and Prize. In 2019 Stevens was elected a
foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States[13] and received the
Kabiller Young Investigator Award.[14] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2020.[15]

2021: In 2021 Stevens was the recipient of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS)
EMBO Women in Science Award.[16]

2023: In 2023 Stevens was awarded The Novo Nordisk Prize for her pioneering work in innovative
bioengineering approaches.[17][18]

2024: In 2024 Stevens was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the
2024 New Year Honours for services to medicine.[19]

References
1. "Plenary Lectures" (https://2021.febscongress.org/plenary-lectures).
2. Molly Stevens (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=99lD_tAAAAAJ) publications
indexed by Google Scholar
3. "Molly Stevens" (https://bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0174gk0). Life Scientific. 15 November
2011. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
4. Stevens, Molly Morag (2000). Atomic force microscopy studies of biomolecular adhesion
and mechanics (https://nusearch.nottingham.ac.uk/permalink/f/lik26v/44NOTUK_ALMA2110
9824340005561). nottingham.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Nottingham.
OCLC 53555402 (https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/53555402). EThOS uk.bl.ethos.342023 (h
ttps://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.342023).
5. Professor Molly Stevens FREng FRS (https://www.stevensgroup.org/professor-stevens) -
website The Stevens Group
6. "The Stevens Group" (https://www.stevensgroup.org/). The Stevens Group. 22 December
2023. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
7. IUPAC website (http://iupac.org/polyedu/page42/code/index.html), March 2014
8. IOM3 Award winners 2010 (http://www.iom3.org/content/award-winners-2010), 2010
9. RSC 2010 award winners (http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/Winners/201
0.asp), 2010
10. ACS Nano (http://pubs.acs.org/journal/ancac3).
11. "Previous Karen Burt Award Winners | Women's Engineering Society" (https://www.wes.org.
uk/content/previous-karen-burt-award-winners). www.wes.org.uk. Retrieved 16 December
2018.
12. "Prime Minister Appoints 2 Trustees to the National Gallery" (https://www.gov.uk/governmen
t/news/prime-minister-appoints-2-trustees-to-the-national-gallery). GOV.UK.
13. "National Academy of Engineering Elects 86 Members and 18 Foreign Members" (https://w
ww.nae.edu/204037.aspx?hootPostID=f7e2b4d72f0f1b577c6a242a109548a3). Retrieved
5 March 2019.
14. "Molly Stevens of Imperial College London receives Kabiller Young Investigator Award" (http
s://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2019/07/nanotechnology-pioneer-chad-mirkin-wins-kabille
r-prize-in-nanoscience-and-nanomedicine). Northwestern University.
15. "Outstanding scientists elected as Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society |
Royal Society" (https://royalsociety.org/news/2020/04/outstanding-scientists-elected-as-fello
ws-and-foreign-members-of-the-royal-society/). royalsociety.org.
16. "Molly Stevens receives the FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award 2021 – Press releases
– EMBO" (https://www.embo.org/press-releases/molly-stevens-receives-the-febs-embo-wo
men-in-science-award-2021/). 10 February 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
17. "Professor Molly Stevens wins 2023 Novo Nordisk Prize | Imperial News | Imperial College
London" (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/243312/professor-molly-stevens-wins-2023-nov
o/). Imperial News. 22 February 2023. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
18. "Professor Dame Molly Stevens receives the Novo Nordisk Prize" (https://www.dpag.ox.ac.u
k/news/professor-dame-molly-stevens-receives-the-novo-nordisk-prize).
www.dpag.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
19. "No. 64269" (https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/64269/supplement/N9). The
London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2023. p. N9.

External links
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