Dr Childs is a Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. His research focusses on the ways that cells respond to mechanical forces, with the goal of exploiting these responses to develop new clinical treatments. He works with bioreactor technologies for stem cell culture and he is the Strathclyde lead for a new EPSRC-funded Hub, MAINSTREAM, targeting challenges of scale up for stem cell therapies.