KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Joint TCES // CDT Conference 2022

The following EPSRC/SFI/MRC Centres for Doctoral Training across the UK regenerative medicine field and the Tissue and Cell Engineering Society (TCES) will come together at the University of Birmingham on 13th – 15th June 2022:

• EPSRC-SFI Joint CDT in Engineered Tissues for Discovery, Industry and Medicine  (LifETIME)
• EPSRC/MRC CDT in Regenerative Medicine 
• EPSRC/MRC CDT in Regenerative Medicine 
• EPSRC Advanced Biomedical Materials CDT (ABM)
• EPSRC CDT in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (TERM)
• Doctoral Network for Technologies in Healthy Ageing (Ageing)

CDT students will showcase their research to professionals and other PhD students across six themes:

Clinical advances and patient benefits, bioengineered models, enabling technologies and biomaterials, mechanobiology, healthy ageing and, imaging.

During each session there will be presentations from later year CDT students within the field and poster and flash talks from early year students. The conference will also host a UK and Ireland discussion forum.

The conference will include talks from keynote speakers:

• Prof. Delphine Gourdon, University of Glasgow
• Prof. Daniel Kelly, Cardiff University
• Prof. Che Connon, Newcastle University
• Prof. Rachelle D’Sa, University of Liverpool
• Dr. Melanie Jimenez, University of Strathclyde
• Prof. Liam Grover, University of Birmingham
• Dr. Michael Monaghan, Trinity College Dublin
• Prof. Yalin Zheng, University of Liverpool