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Professor Jim Wild, Insigneo Executive Director, University of ºù«Ӱҵ -
Welcome and EPSRC Research Hub application overview
Professor Wendy Baird, Deputy Vice President for Innovation, University of ºù«Ӱҵ
Professor Jim Litster, Vice President Engineering, University of ºù«Ӱҵ

Session 1 - Smart devices and sensors
Dr Mark Toshner, Director of Translational Biomedical Research, University of Cambridge
'Decentralised clinical studies'
Dr Frankie Varian, Clinical Research Training Fellow, University of ºù«Ӱҵ
‘Implementation of remote patient reported outcomes within clinical trials’
Dr Hamza Zafar, Honorary Academic Clinical Fellow, University of ºù«Ӱҵ
'Development of a remote interstitial pressure monitor'

Session 2 - Healthcare data/AI
Professor Aldo Faisal, Professor of AI & Neuroscience, Imperial College London.
‘From Digital Biomarkers to Digital Therapeutics: Generative AI to the rescue!’
Professor Tim Chico, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, University of ºù«Ӱҵ
‘The South Yorkshire EPSRC Digital Health Hub’
Professor Haiping Lu, Professor of Machine Learning, University of ºù«Ӱҵ
‘AI Research Engineering for Multimodal AI’

Session 3 - Computational modelling in medicine
Dr Miguel Juarez, Lecturer, University of ºù«Ӱҵ
‘Improving TB clinical trials with virtual cohorts —The STriTuVaD approach.’
Dr Ivan Benemerito, Software & Application Developer, University of ºù«Ӱҵ
‘A combined mechanistic and AI approach to study ischaemic stroke’
Ms Fiona Gibson, PhD Student, University of ºù«Ӱҵ
‘Altered vertebral biomechanical properties in prostate cancer patients following androgen deprivation therapy’

Session 4 - Imaging Life
Professor Mike Cork, Professor of Dermatology, University of ºù«Ӱҵ
‘The virtual OCT skin biopsy, transforming the treatment of inflammatory & malignant diseases’

Plenary Speaker - Professor Jackie Hunter, Board Director BenevolentAI; Board Chair Brainomix and the Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst
‘AI in healthcare’

Session 4 - Imaging Life
Dr Chris Toseland, Senior Lecturer, University of ºù«Ӱҵ
‘Super Resolution imaging of nuclear organisation’
Dr Alice Ghidini, Team Lead Structure and Characterization, Sixfold Bioscience and Dr Alice Pyne, Senior Lecturer in Soft Matter & Polymers, University of ºù«Ӱҵ
‘Determining the structure of new RNA therapeutics’

Session 5 - Biomaterials, bioengineering and cell technology
Dr Piergiorgio Gentile, Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering Newcastle University
‘Layer-by-layer assembly for multilayered constructs for biomedical applications’
Dr Helen Matthews, Sir Henry Dale Fellow, University of ºù«Ӱҵ
‘The mechano-biology of cancer cell division'
Dr Tom Paterson, Lecturer, University of ºù«Ӱҵ
'Navigating the Biomedical Landscape: A Journey from Bone Regeneration to Neural Bioelectronics'