Oral presentations programme
Poster presentations programme
Plenary speakers
Prof Eric Aboagye is Professor of Cancer Pharmacology & Molecular Imaging and Director of the CRUK-EPSRC-MRC-NIHR Comprehensive Cancer Imaging Centre.
He joined the college after a PhD at the CRUK Beatson Laboratories in Glasgow, UK and post-doc fellowship at The Johns Hopkins University & Hospital in Baltimore, USA. His group is interested in the discovery and development of new methods for experimental and clinical cancer molecular imaging. In the past 5 years, the team has invented and translated three novel cancer diagnostics into human application. He has acted as an advisor to GE-Healthcare, GSK, Roche and Novartis.
Professor Aboagye was recipient of the 2009 Sir Mackenzie Davidson Medal and was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2010. Academy Fellows are elected for outstanding contributions to the advancement of medical science, for innovative application of scientific knowledge or for conspicuous service to healthcare.
Prof Treena Arinzeh is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey. She is known for her research on adult stem-cell therapy. She worked for several years as a project manager at a stem cell technology company, Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. Dr. Arinzeh joined the faculty of NJIT as one of the founding faculty members of the department of Biomedical Engineering and served as interim chairperson and graduate director.
Her most notable or cited work to date has been in the use of allogeneic mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) with bioactive ceramics to induce bone formation in a large bone defect without the use of immunosuppressive therapy. This study served the basis for FDA approval to pursue clinical trials using allogeneic MSCs for various applications. Dr. Arinzeh has been recognized with numerous awards, including the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). She was nominated by the Governor of Connecticut to the Connecticut Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee. She is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). She recently served as the chairperson for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering (MTE) Study Section. She is currently a co-PI and the Director of Diversity of the NSF Science and Technology Center on Engineering Mechanobiology, which is a multi-institutional center with the University of Pennsylvania and Washington University in Saint Louis. She has also made a significant impact in the recruitment and mentoring of underrepresented minorities and women in biomedical engineering and other STEM fields.
Prof Tim Chico is the British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre’s Associate Director and Theme Lead for Personal Monitoring Data.
Tim is Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and honorary Consultant Cardiologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Research Director for Healthcare Data / AI in the Institute of In Silico Medicine (INSIGNEO) at the University of Sheffield. He brings a breadth of expertise in cardiovascular research and medicine and is an Academy of Medical Sciences “Future Leader in Innovation, Enterprise and Research”.
Michelle J. Johnson, Ph.D., is currently Associate professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Pennsylvania. She has secondary appointments as an Associate professor in Bioengineering and in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. She has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, with an emphasis in mechatronics, robotics, and design, from Stanford University. She completed a NSF-NATO post-doctoral fellowship at the Advanced Robotics Technology and Systems Laboratory at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Italy.
She directs the Rehabilitation Robotic Research and Design Laboratory located at the Pennsylvania Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine. The lab is also affiliated with the General Robotics Automation Sensing Perception (GRASP) Lab.
Dr. Johnson’s lab specializes in the design, development, and therapeutic use of novel, affordable, intelligent robotic assistants for rehabilitation in high and low-resource environments with an emphasis on using robotics and sensors to quantify upper limb motor function in adults and children with brain injury or at risk for brain injury. Dr. Johnson has spent over twenty years applying technology solutions to aid in the understanding of disability and impairment after brain injury. She is currently a Fulbright Scholar for 2020-2022 to Botswana and an IEEE Engineering in Biology and Medicine Society Distinguished Lecturer 2021-2022.
Formal dinner and social activities
On the evening of Thursday 8 September, we are delighted to be holding a three-course dinner at the Radisson Blu Edwardian Bloomsbury Street Hotel. You can purchase this as an additional option when you register.
Kindly supported by our sponsors:
Gold sponsor: Biomedical Engineering Steering Group
The Joint Biomedical Steering Group currently comprises of representatives from the IET, IMechE, IPEM, IOP, IOM3, BCS, FCI and the BioMedEng Association. It strives to provide a forum for member driven communities in Biomedical Engineering in the UK to come together to highlight upcoming events, make sure these are cross-advertised when suitable, and capitalise on cross discipline opportunities
Gold Sponsor: Jellagen
Jellagen Ltd is a medical technology company manufacturing next-generation collagen derived from jellyfish for medical and scientific research applications. Our mission is to commercialize Collagen Type 0 based on its many advantages over mammalian sources, while also exploring new therapeutic opportunities which arise from the unique qualities of Collagen Type 0 as a biomaterial. The Jellagen business model is based upon our deep belief in building sustainable sources for critical biomaterials which do not carry the environmental and human health risks of traditional collagen sources.
Gold Sponsor: ThermoFisher Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific helps customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics, and increase laboratory productivity. Our Thermo Scientific™ Amira™ Software solution supports advanced 2D–5D bioimaging workflows in research areas ranging from structural and cellular biology to tissue imaging, neuroscience, preclinical imaging, and bioengineering.
ThermoFisher product demo:
Advanced Biomedical 3D Image Processing and Analysis using Amira Software
In this demonstration, you will learn advanced image analysis workflows in Amira software from data import, image pre-processing, visualization & 3D volume rendering, image segmentation, AI-based deep learning and machine learning as well as batch processing for biomedical imaging.
Amira software handles multi-channel, time-series, large biomedical images in different file formats and from different imaging modalities i.e. light-sheet, confocal, electron microscopy, CT, MRI and etc.
Stop by at our booth or make an appointment with our Amira expert for a demonstration at your convenience.
Gold Sponsor: Merck
We are Merck, a vibrant science and technology company.
The life science business of Merck, represents more than 300,000 products, improving quality of life for patients and fostering the success of customers. We are making future safer, devices smarter, and technology more sustainable. Our tools, services and digital platform make research simpler and help to deliver breakthroughs more quickly.
Silver sponsor: COMSOL
COMSOL is a global provider of simulation software for product design, engineering, and research in technical enterprises, labs, and universities. COMSOL Multiphysics® is an integrated environment for creating physics-based models and simulation applications. Simulation experts use COMSOL Server™ and COMSOL Compiler™ to deploy applications to design teams and customers worldwide.
Free IP review session sponsor: GJE
Gill Jennings & Every LLP (GJE) is the recommended intellectual property (IP) firm of the BioMedEng Association. GJE provides a comprehensive patents, trade marks and designs service to ensure your innovation stays secure. We take pride in providing world-class IP protection with a high quality service. For BioMedEng22, GJE have awarded a free IP review session as a prize for the abstract relating to the research project having a commercial and industrial aspect considered to have good potential for IP protection. The prize session involved guidance on how best to maximise the value of any potential IP in the winner’s innovation, and any existing IP, to support their commercial plans, including the possibility of filing patent applications.
ECR poster prize sponsor: MDPI
