“Showcasing Our Research”

Venue:  Huxley Foyer & H300

Poster Boards available for all students email here

Exhibition space available for industry email  here

Programme

8.30-8.55 Registration & coffee

8.55-9.00 Welcome (Matteo Santin, CRMD Director)

Session 1 Biomaterial synthesis (Chair: Irina Savina)

9.00-9.25 Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy “Advances in mucoadhesive polymers for mucosal drug delivery”

9.25-9.40 Irina Savina  “Macroporous cryogels for biomedical applications”

09.40-9.55 Dipak Sarker  “ Sustainable biomaterials”

 Session 2 Advanced Biomedical Engineering  (Chair: Anastasios Georgoulas)

9.55-10.20 – Rodrigo Aviles-Espinosa “Biomedical applications of laser-assisted high precision robotic systems”

10.20-10.35 Paul Harris “Mathematical modelling of cell migration”

10.35-10.50 Nick Dowell “Low field MRI innovation”

10.50-11.05 Saeed Malekshahi Gheytassi “ A Data-driven Framework Using AI Techniques Applied to Wound Care Treatment”

11.05-11.15 – Mr Paul Chadwick, Spectral AI, “AI to support assessment and prediction in Diabetic Foot Disease”

11.15-11.35 Coffee break and networking 

Session 3 Medical Devices to treat liver disease  (Chair: Susan Sandeman)

 11.35 – 12.00-  Prof Nathan Davies, University College London, “Supporting the Liver to Heal Itself “ 

12.00- 12.15 -Susan Sandeman, “Adapting biomaterials for functional liver replacement”

12.15-12.30- Neda Heidari, “Protecting hepatocytes from hepatotoxin damage to improve bioartificial liver performance”

12.30 – 13.00 Lunch & Networking (Huxley Foyer)

Session 4 Wound Care (Chair Matteo Santin)

13.00-13.30  Stephen Jeffery, Pioneer Ltd John and Debbie “Pioneer Wound Clinics – the UK’s No.1 wound trial centre” 

13.30-13.45 Gianluca Melotto “Clinical case studies of primary and secondary wound dressings”

13.45-14.00 Shirin Saberianpour “Biocompatibility parameters of retrieved wound dressings”

14.00-14.15 Justine Tansley “Podiatry-led space research: effect of gravity on lower limb perfusion”

 Session 5 Basic and Applied Cell Investigations (Chair : Wendy Macfarlane)

14.15-14.45 Dr Sandeep Kumar, Head of Advanced therapy production, Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust “Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products: From Bench to Bedside.”

14.45-15.00 Wendy MacFarlane “Cell-Therapy for the Treatment of Diabetes” 

 15.00-15.20 Tea and cakes & networking

 Session 6  Regenerative Medicine & Physiotherapy for Orthopaedic Applications (Chair: Leonard Joseph)

15.20 – 15.45 John Shepperd, Orthopaedic Surgeon  “Spinal Disorders Research – Thinking out of the box”

15.45-16.00 Matteo Santin “An In vitro Model of Intervertebral Disc Degeneration: Unveiling the Effects of the Changes of the Nucleous Pulposus Extracellular Matrix on Cell Phenotypes”

16.00-16.15 Leonard Henry Joseph, “Physiotherapy and Low Back Pain – Contemporary Research Practice and Future Opportunities”

 16.15 Final remarks and networking