The Healthcare Technologies Student and Early Career Awards 2019

Overview

With this year's Healthcare Technologies Student and Early Career Awards taking place on 18 June 2019 at One Birdcage Walk, make sure you book your place to find out which of our invited finalists will win in the Undergraduate/taught Master's, PhD and Best Poster award categories. The competition will be followed by the Annual Prestige Lecture, which is titled ‘New Materials and Approaches for Regenerative Medicine and Gene Therapy’ and will be presented by Prof. Kevin Shakesheff, Professor of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham.

Vicon Best Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Project Finalists:

Developing a platform for the study of cochlear implants
Shreya Singhal, University of Cambridge

Limiting impaction Force during Total Hip Arthroplasty
Eleanor Westhead, Imperial College London

Enhancement of Peripheral Nerve Repair using Small Molecule Therapeutics: Combining Mathematical Modelling with In Vitro Experiments
Suzette Lust, University College London


DePuy Best Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Project Finalists:
Biomechanical Analysis of lower limb amputee socket interface
Jinghua Tang, University of Southampton

A novel biomaterials approach to therapeutic angiogenesis
Eseelle Hendow, University College London

Microvessel-on-a-chip for investigating glioma-vascular interactions
Magda Gerigk, University of Cambridge

Competition finalists will be competing for the following four prizes:

Vicon Award (£500)
Highlighting the best projects in Biomedical Engineering from recent graduates, third/fourth year undergraduates and taught Master’s degree course students.

DePuy Award (£500)
Recognising outstanding work by current PhD students or PhD graduates who passed their viva between 2017 and 2018.

Triteq Award (£300)
For the best poster presented by third/forth year undergraduates and taught Master’s degree course students.

NIHR MIC Award (£300)
For the best posters presented by current PhD students or PhD graduates who passed their viva between 2017 and 2018.

Day 1

12:00 - Awards Programme

11:45   Registration and Refreshments

12:00   Introduction

            Samuel Vennin, King’s College London

12:10   Lunch & Poster Presentations

VICON BEST MEDICAL ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATE PROJECT

13:30   Vicon Presentation (UG Oral prize)

13:45   Developing a platform for the study of cochlear implants

            Shreya Singhal, University of Cambridge

14:05   Limiting impaction Force during Total Hip Arthroplasty

            Eleanor Westhead, Imperial College London

14:25   Enhancement of Peripheral Nerve Repair using Small Molecule Therapeutics: Combining      Mathematical Modelling with In Vitro Experiments.

Suzette Lust, University College London

14:45   Triteq Presentation (UG Poster prize)

15:00 Refreshment Break                  

DEPUY BEST MEDICAL ENGINEERING PhD PROJECT

15:30   DePuy Presentation (PhD Oral prize)

15:45   Biomechanical Analysis of lower limb amputee socket interface

            Jinghua Tang, University of Southampton

16:05   A novel biomaterials approach to therapeutic angiogenesis

            Eseelle Hendow, University College London

16:25   Microvessel-on-a-chip for investigating glioma-vascular interactions

            Magda Gerigk, University of Cambrdige

16:45   NIHR Presentation (PhD Poster prize)

17:00   Presentation of Awards

17:30  Annual BmED Prestige Lecture

There are currently no speaker details available.

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