Members
Dr Giuseppe Di Caprio
Principal investigator
Dr. Giuseppe Di Caprio serves as an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) and a Chancellor’s Fellow at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, and as a scientific advisor at the Center of System Biology – Massachusetts General Hospital. He completed his doctoral studies in Novel Technologies for Imaging through a collaborative program between the University of Naples Federico II and the Université Libre de Bruxelles. During this time, he focused on developing Phase Microscopy systems for cell analysis and tracking. Following his doctoral studies, he spent 11 years at Harvard University, initially at the Optofluidic Citofluorimetry Lab under the guidance of Dr. Ethan Schonbrun at the Rowland Institute. After three years, he transitioned to the Kirchhausen Lab as junior faculty at the Harvard Medical School – Boston Children’s hospital. His research interests encompass a wide range of topics including Microscopy, Quantitative Bioimage Analysis, Microfluidics, Organs-On-Chip, and Machine Learning. Google scholar
email: giuseppe.dicaprio@strath.ac.uk
twitter: @galenes
PhD Students
Philip Graemer
Philip joined the lab in April 2024. He holds a BSc in Psychology with First Class Honours from the University of West of Scotland, awarded in 2020, and an MSc in Brain Sciences with Merit from the University of Glasgow, completed in 2021. Currently, he is involved in a project focusing on AI-powered Smart Microscopy for Stem-Cell Engineering. Outside of work, Philip enjoys hiking, hill climbing, and wild camping.
email: philip.graemer@strath.ac.uk
twitter: @true_leveller
Swabra Farzia
Swabra joined the lab in October 2024. She is a recent MEng Biomedical Engineering graduate with a Merit distinction. Her project will focus on identifying the most potent cardioactive secretome fractions from human amniotic stem cells and determining their mechanisms of action on myocardial disease using advanced optical imaging, AI integration, and bioprinted cardiovascular organoids, in collaboration with KU Leuven. Outside of work, she enjoy hiking, cooking new recipes, and staying active through running.
BEng, Meng and MSc Students
Grant McClure
MEng Student
Grant joined the lab for his 4th year project in September 2024. The project aims to develop a GAN architecture to generate synthetic images of MSCs at different differentiation stages
Rachel Elder
MEng Student
Rachel joined the lab for her 4th year project in September 2024. The project aims to develop AI-assisted 3D image processing methods to enhance clinical CT imaging by integrating Optical Projection Tomography (OPT) principles, improving resolution and contrast
Recent Alumni
Stuart Fisher
Stuart joined the lab for his master thesis in March 2024. He will work on the design and fabrication of new microfluidic devices for whole blood characterization.
Mohamed Aziz Safi
Aziz joined the lab for his master thesis in March 2024. Aziz will analyse existing videos of whole blood cells in flow, and he will develop AI-based algorithms for single cell segmentation and classification.