Serena M. Best

Serena Best is a Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge. She co-directs the Cambridge Centre for Medical Materials (along with Professor Ruth Cameron). She has published around 300 journal papers, books and book chapters, she holds 9 patents in the fields of biomaterials and skeletal repair and has played a part in the spin out two companies associated with this work.  She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (where she is Senior Vice President). She is also a Fellow of Federation of Institutions for Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE) and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (FAIMBE). She was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2017 for services to Biomaterials Engineering.