The meeting on Friday 14th December will review advances and needs in these technologies from business, clinical and research perspectives.
It will cover aspects including:
- Clinical need and issues faced by drug-free antibacterial technology
- Antibacterial materials; synthetic polymers, natural polymers, glasses and ceramics
- Developing products and novel technologies for medical devices and cosmetic, pharmaceutical and medical applications
- Networks and support in anti-bacterial technology.
Participants will have an opportunity to view posters on the project and to meet members of the project’s researcher cohort, who will outline results to advance products for medical and personal healthcare.
Confirmed Speakers:
| 09.30 | Registration and coffee |
| 10.00 | New Concepts of Drug-free Antibacterial Science Technology Dr Xiang Zhang, Lucideon Limited, Cambridge, UK Prof. Ipsita Roy, University of Westminster, London, UK |
| 10.10 | The Art of Commercialising Research Prof. Chris Lowe, University of Cambridge, UK |
| 10.40 | Stress Analysis, Design and Fabrication of Biostructures: The Role + Impact of Additive Manufacturing Prof Atul Bhaskar, University of Southampton, UK |
| 11.00 | Clinical Need and Issues Faced by Drug-Free Antibacterial Technology Dr Jochen Salber, UMC Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bochum, Germany |
| 11.20 | Break |
| 11.40 | Biomimetic Strategies in the Design of Antibacterial Synthetic Polymers Prof. Gianluca Ciardelli, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy |
| 12.00 | Antibacterial Natural Polymers Prof. Ipsita Roy, University of Westminster, London, UK |
| 12.20 | Antibacterial Properties of Nonopatterns Prof. Amir A. Zadpoor, TU Delft, The Netherlands |
| 12.40 | Research rapid fire presentations (10 presentations, 2 minutes) |
| 13.00 | Lunch and Poster Viewing |
| 14.00 | The Development of Antibacterial Inorganic Materials and Their Potential for New Medical Technologies Dr Mark Cresswell, Lucideon Limited, Stoke on Trent, UK |
| 14.20 | Developing functionalized Biopolymers: Products for Cosmetic, Pharmaceutical, Biological and Medical Applications Dr Hongyun Tai, Blafar Limited, Dublin, Ireland |
| 14.40 | Novel Antimicrobial Technology for Medical Devices; BALI, IBIZA and PRINT-AID Dr S.A.J. Zaat, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 15.00 | Break |
| 15.20 | New Anti-Biofilm Strategies from Understanding Biofilm Life Cycle Dynamics Prof. Jeremy Webb, University of Southampton, UK |
| 15.50 | Speaker Discussions |
| 16.15 | Overview of the day / next steps |
The meeting – which takes place from 9am at The Hauser Forum (The Entrepreneurship Centre, 3 Charles Babbage Road, CB3 0GT) – is supported in part through HyMedPoly*. This is a four-year Marie Skłodowska-Curie programme project developing new anti-bacterial therapies based on polymers and inorganic materials.
This event is being run jointly by Cambridge Network with member, Lucideon, an international, independent materials technology company that applies its materials expertise in ceramics, metals and polymers to a range of sectors including healthcare, construction, ceramics, aerospace and power engineering.
Cost:
Cambridge Network members: There is a charge of £50+VAT per person for attending this one-day event.
Non-members: There is a charge of £100+VAT per person.
Find out more and sign up here.
*HyMedPoly has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant programme No. 643050.
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