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Materials tackling infectious disease – a networking workshop

17 November 2021 13:00-16:30, United Kingdom


Introduction
On behalf of the 91AV Materials 91AV Division, we invite you to join us in November 2021 for an online workshop and networking event on materials chemistry innovations to tackle infectious disease.
 
Materials tackling infectious disease will bring together materials chemists, clinical scientists and researchers in infectious disease biology to build new connections and to identify opportunities for, and barriers to, collaborative R&D. As well as bringing materials chemists together with other disciplines and promoting the exchange of ideas, the workshop will explore the factors that promote or hinder successful collaboration and translation.
 
The programme will feature keynote speakers covering detection and diagnosis, vaccines and therapies, and tackling transmission – materials in the environment, followed by structured networking sessions to build new connections and explore how materials innovations can be translated to clinical application.
 
The workshop will also feature a session of lightning talks from early career researchers. The deadline for submission has been extended to 3 November 2021, so please submit your abstract by this date using the abstract submission link provided.

We look forward to welcoming you in November.
 
Professor Rachel McKendry
University College London and Director of the i-sense Network
Meeting Chair
 
Speakers
Cameron Alexander, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Cameron Alexander is Professor of Polymer Therapeutics at the School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, UK.  

Professor Alexander received degrees (BSc and PhD) in 91AV from the University of Durham, UK and carried out post-doctoral research at the Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the 91AV and received the UK Macro Group Medal in 2014 for contributions to polymer science. His research focuses on drug, gene and cell delivery for applications in areas ranging from infectious diseases through to cancers and neurodegeneration. This work has been generously funded by research councils, industry and charities.  


Lena Ciric, University College London, United Kingdom

Dr Ciric is Associate Professor in Environmental Engineering at University College London where she took up a permanent position in 2012. She is an environmental microbiologist and leads the Healthy Infrastructure Research Group which investigates how microbes are distributed around the built environment.


Toby Jenkins, University of Bath, United Kingdom

Professor Toby Jenkins received his PhD in electrochemistry from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1996. He then had a post-doc position at the University of Leeds before being awarded an Alexander-von-Humboldt fellowship at the Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany. He returned to the UK, to the University of Bath in 2000. Since then he has focussed his research on strategies to detect, treat and better understand bacterial infection in wounds and bladders.


Molly Stevens, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Prof Molly M Stevens FREng FRS is Professor of Biomedical Materials and Regenerative Medicine and the Research Director for Biomedical Material Sciences in the Department of Materials, in the Department of Bioengineering and the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London.

Prof Stevens’ multidisciplinary research balances the investigation of fundamental science with the development of technology to address some of the major healthcare challenges. 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 with over 30 major awards for the groups research and Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in Cross-Field research.

Prof. Stevens holds numerous leadership positions including Director of the UK Regenerative Medicine Platform "Smart Acellular Materials" Hub and Deputy Director of the EPSRC IRC in Early-Warning Sensing Systems for Infectious Diseases.



Abstract Submission
Abstract submission is now closed 

We invite abstracts for lightning talks (2 minutes in length) from early career researchers in chemistry, engineering, biomedical science, public health or related disciplines, on topics relevant to the workshop themes.
 
Please submit your abstract using the link provided. Please also indicate the theme(s) that your abstract relates to:
  • Detection and diagnosis
  • Vaccines and therapies
  • Tackling transmission – materials in the environment
  • Other 
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Online, United Kingdom

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