This Healthcare Technologies Institute (HTI) event will showcase new technologies that have contributed to the global effort to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, the technologies the HTI are currently working on and how we will help to train the future innovation leaders in drug discovery and regenerative medicine through the development of bioengineered humanised 3D models, microfluidics, diagnostics and sensing platforms.
During this session you’ll learn about:
- The Healthcare Technologies Institute research
- How we have supported the COVID-19 pandemic
- How the Lifetime CDT is bringing together industry and academia to form collaborative projects that will train our future leaders
Birmingham Tech Week is run in association with:
Speakers
Matthew Campbell-Hill
Senior Fellow in Novel Medical Technologies
University of Birmingham
Professor Tony Metcalfe
Industrial Professor of Wound Healing
University of Birmingham
Professor Ivan Wall
Professor of Regenerative Medicine, Cell & Gene Therapy Bioprocessing
Aston University
This event is brought to you by:
Our headline sponsor
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