Delivering Next Generation Regenerative Medicine
AGENDA OVERVIEW
1.30pm Thought Leader Interview with Professor Dame Molly Stevens
2.00pm Panel Discussion: Delivering Next-Generation Regenerative Medicine Through Bioengineering
- Translating nanoscale and bioactive scaffold innovations from lab to clinic
- Engineering the cell–material interface
- How bioengineered tissues and neurotechnology devices intersect
- Advances in neural tissue engineering
- Conventional clinical approaches to PD
- How emerging devices and bioengineered materials may shift therapeutic paradigms
Panellists
Andrea Serio, Reader in Neural Tissue Engineering, King’s College London & Group Leader, The Francis Crick Institute
Roger Barker, Professor of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
George Malliaras, Prince Philip Professor of Technology, University of Cambridge
Biography:
Professor Dame Molly Stevens FREng FRS is John Black Professor of Bionanoscience at the University of Oxford and also holds part-time professorships at Imperial College London and the Karolinska Institute. Molly’s multidisciplinary research balances the investigation of fundamental science with the development of technology to address some of the major healthcare challenges. She is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of several companies in the diagnostics, advanced therapeutics and regenerative medicine space. Her work has been instrumental in elucidating the bio-material interfaces. She has created a broad portfolio of designer biomaterials for applications in disease diagnostics and regenerative medicine. Her substantial body of work influences research groups around the world.
