Technology Touching Life – Industry Engagement

Location
Centre for Professional Development, Medical School, University of Birmingham
Dates
Friday 18 March 2016 (10:00-15:30)
Contact

For more information or to register for a place, please contact Claire Farrell, College of Engineering & Physical Sciences, University of Birmingham (c.m.farrell@bham.ac.uk; 0121 414 7619)

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Technology Touching Life is a potential cross research council funding initiative designed to foster interdisciplinary technology development research across the engineering, physical and life sciences. This event brings together academics, industry and funders to explore the possibilities for research and development in this area.

PROGRAMME

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee, Tea & Registration
10:30 – 10:40 Introduction (Professor Michael Hannon)
10:40 - 11:35 Talks & Project Reports
John Hand (EPSRC)
Hilary Fanning (University Hospitals Birmingham)
Project report: “A new mass spectrometry and fluorescence
imaging approach enabling biochemistry at the single cell level”
Timothy Morley (Smith & Nephew)
11:35 – 12:00 Refreshments & Networking
12:00 - 12:50 Talks & Project Reports
Project Report: “Computational and experimental analyses
of factors promoting thrombosis in veins and heart”
Martin Hunt (NIHR, Invention for Innovation)
Project Report: “Environmentally Triggered Smart Biomaterials
For Disease Modulation”
Tony Davis (Academic Health Science Network)
12:50 – 14:00 Lunch, Poster Presentations & Networking
14:00 – 14:50 Talks & Project Reports
Lisa Mansell (Bioscience Ventures Ltd)
Project Report: “Achieving the earliest diagnosis of Cancer
through a cascaded computational decision support system”
Louise Armstrong-Denby (Andor Technology)
Project Report: “Employing neural feedback for enhanced control
of faecal incontinence”
14:50 -15:20 Refreshments & Networking