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Join our speakers for a series of stimulating pitches showcasing Imperial’s research expertise and available technologies, outlining Imperial’s efforts to tackle the impacts of an ageing society, enabling a better quality of life and healthcare for the future. This will be followed by a panel discussion, chaired by Imperial’s Dr Jonathan Jeffers, the first ever engineer to be awarded an NIHR Research Professorship.

Programme:

Introductions from Dr Rebeca Santamaria-Fernandez, Director of Industry Partnerships and Commercialisation (Faculty of Engineering), Imperial College London Enterprise Division and Dr Jonathan Jeffers.

Research pitches:

  • Rapid delivery of vaccines and personalised medicines – Dr Cleo Kontoravdi, Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Optimisation and Pre-clinically testing the next generation of orthopaedic implants – Dr Richard van Arkel , Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Neural interfacing in the 21th century: wearable, accurate, and with wide clinical and consumer use – Professor Dario Farina, Department of Bioengineering

Technology pitches:

  • MINT: Micro Implantable Neural Technologies – Dr Dorian Haci, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Ultrafast and super-resolution ultrasound for visualising macro- and micro-vascular flow dynamics in vivo – Prof Mengxing Tang, Department of Bioengineering
  • A bioinspired treatment for skin wounds– Dr Claire Higgins, Department of Bioengineering

Q&A panel discussion chaired by Dr Jonathan Jeffers.

Interact on Twitter using the hashtag #ImperialTechPitch and by following @ImperialIdeas.

This event is part of a regular series from the Enterprise Division, coordinated by the Industry Partnerships and Commercialisation team for the Faculty of Engineering, with Imperial Business Partners. You can find out more about previous Imperial.Tech.Pitch events and others in the series on the dedicated webpages.

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