Professor Liam Grover is a professor of Material Sciences and Head of the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham and the Director of the Healthcare Technologies Institute, an interdisciplinary network of over 70 academics working together to advance new technologies and treatments that encourage better tissue healing and rehabilitation tools. His research focuses on the development of new materials to replace the function of tissues and has filed more than ten patents to protect technologies that range from osteogenic cements through to scar reducing dressings He is also the Founder-Director of the Healthcare Technologies Institute, which works to help move novel technologies through the translational pipeline. He sits on the EPSRC Healthcare Technologies SAT, the NIHR i4i panel and has sat on the MRC DPFS panel. He was the youngest Professor in the history of the University of Birmingham (32) and the youngest ever Fellow of the Institute of Materials (30). In 2023, he became a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.