Colin McCoy

Professor

Dean of Internationalisation, School of Pharmacy
Material and Advanced Technologies for Healthcare

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6468-2018

Phone+44 (0)28 9097 2081, +44 (0)28 9097 5883
EmailC.McCoy@qub.ac.uk

90 Lisburn Road
United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Open to PhD applications in the field of drug delivery, biomaterials, sensor development, SMART materials, and medical device enhancement. Polymer and small-molecule synthesis, materials characterisation, biological and microbiological performance are all areas of expertise in our research.

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Interests

Professor Colin McCoy leads three themes within Biomaterials and Drug Delivery in the School of Pharmacy;polymeric medical devices, photoactive biomaterials and sensor development. Following completion of his PhD in Chemistry, which included a publication in Nature, he undertook two years of postdoctoral research with Nobel Laureate Professor Jean-Marie Lehn, at the Collège de France. He was awarded a prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 1999, which he held for 8 years in the School of Pharmacy, and was appointed Senior Lecturer in 2006, Reader in 2009 and Professor in 2012.

His expertise is in the design of triggered drug delivery systems, the development of infection-resistant biomaterials and the design of sensor technologies for drugs and biologically-relevant species. His research has attracted in excess of £5M of funding, and he is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and 6 patents. His work has received media attention from sources such as the BBC World Service, New Scientist, The Sunday Times, Chemistry in Britain and Chemistry and Engineering News.

Professor McCoy has given lectures at numerous international and national conferences. He compiled a policy document for the Royal Society by invitation and sat on an advisory panel to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and the Science Minister for the development of UK Government policy on spending on science. He is an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology and former member of the International Steering Committee for the Handbook of Pharmaceutical Excipients. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Chemistry and Advance HE, formerly the Higher Education Academy.

Research Statement

The major focus of Professor McCoy's research involves development of biomaterials which are resistant to infection. In particular, his research exploits triggered drug delivery using light, heat, chemical or electrical stimuli to either modulate the properties of materials or directly release appropriate bioactive molecules. A further area of research is in the development of new materials for detecting and monitoring species such as drugs, explosives and biological anions. To achieve this, he uses diverse approaches including surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy and delayed lanthanide luminescence. This work is carried out with collaborators in the UK, Ireland, Europe and the USA.

His research is both fundamental and applied, with funders including EPSRC (6 major grants awarded since appointment), the Royal Society and global medical device companies.

He is author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and patents in journals including Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Pharmaceutical Research, Bioconjugate Chemistry and Chemistry of Materials, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and serves on the editorial board of Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology.

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Projects

3 Active
8 Finished

R1909PMY: A platform for reduction of incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia through modified PVC

McCoy, C., Carson, L., Irwin, N. & Jones, D.

22/05/2018 → …

Project: Research

S2370CHM: KTP/Elmgrove Foods Ltd

McCoy, C. & Rooney, D.

01/08/2014 → …

Project: ktp

Research Output

68 Article
30 Poster
24 Paper
4 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
10 More

Characterization of the physicochemical, antimicrobial, and drug release properties of thermoresponsive hydrogel copolymers designed for medical device applications

Jones, D., Lorimer, C. P., McCoy, C. & Gorman, S., May 2008, In : Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part B: Applied Biomaterials. 85B(2), 2, p. 417-426 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

54 Citations (Scopus)

Infection-responsive drug delivery from urinary biomaterials controlled by a novel kinetic and thermodynamic approach

Irwin, N. J., McCoy, C. P., Jones, D. S. & Gorman, S. P., Mar 2013, In : Pharmaceutical Research. 30, 3, p. 857-865 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

15 Citations (Scopus)

Surface localisation of photosensitisers on intraocular lens biomaterials for prevention of infectious endophthalmitis and retinal protection

McCoy, C. P., Craig, R. A., McGlinchey, S. M., Carson, L., Jones, D. S. & Gorman, S. P., Nov 2012, In : Biomaterials. 33, 32, p. 7952-7958 7 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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29 Citations (Scopus)

236 Downloads (Pure)

Anti-infective photodynamic biomaterials for the prevention of intraocular lens-associated infectious endophthalmitis

Parsons, C., McCoy, C. P., Gorman, S. P., Jones, D. S., Bell, S., Brady, C. & McGlinchey, S., Feb 2009, In : Biomaterials. 30, 4, p. 597-602 6 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

56 Citations (Scopus)

Datasets

Dataset for Nanoscale Hybrid Coating Enables Multifunctional Tissue Scaffold for Potential Multimodal Therapeutic Applications

Guo, Z. (Creator), Jiang, N. (Creator), Moore, J. (Creator), McCoy, C. (Creator), Ziminska, M. (Creator), Rafferty, C. (Creator), Sarri, G. (Creator), Hamilton, A. (Creator), Li, Y. (Creator), Zhang, L. (Creator), Zhu, S. (Creator), Sun, D. (Creator), Queen's University Belfast, 2019

DOI: 10.17034/3f1b3b75-cdc7-48f0-b419-92834bf52227

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