Accelerating Translation Event 2024
Thank you to all that attended this exciting afternoon celebrating research achievements supported by the Wellcome Institutional Translational Partnership Award (ITPA). The event highlighted success stories, addressed challenges in the translational ecosystem, and explored advances in therapeutics and medtech across all schools.
Where: Crausaz Wordsworth Building, Robinson College, Adams Road, Cambridge, CB3 9AD
When: 3rd December 2024
Time: 12:00 – 18:00
Accelerating Translation Report:
Programme of speakers:
Agenda Overview:
12:00-13:00 - Lunch, Posters & Networking
13:00 - Welcome and Introduction - Professor Anne Willis, Director of MRC Toxicology Unit and Co-Director of CATS
13:05 - Highlights of the Wellcome funded Translational Partnership Award and Vision for Innovation - Dr Diarmuid O'Brien, Pro-Vice Chancellor of Innovation
13:30 - Session 1: Professor Anne Willis chairs the session on Translational Cultural Change
Session speakers:
13:30 - Professor George Malliaras: Translation of medical devices
13:45 - Dr Alessandro Faroni: Supporting Translational Research at the University of Manchester
14:00 - Dr Nataly Hastings: Stronger Together: Protecting Brain Networks to Stop Parkinson's
14:15 - Dr Alice Sorell: Creating Cultural Change through the SCI-TIF
14:30 - Dr Jehangir Cama: Developing a novel intraoperative surgical aid for precision joint replacement surgery
14:45 - Panel questions and answers
15:00 - 15:20 - Refreshment break and poster session
15:20 - Session 2: Professor George Malliaras chairs the session on the Translational Journey
Session speakers:
15:20 - Dr Laura Donnelly: Support for translation and commercialisation from Cambridge Enterprise
15:35 - Dr Alexander Patto: Developing a Multiplexed Point-of-Care Diagnostic: Early beginnings to Spin-out
15:50 - Professor Marko Hyvoven: Making most of cryptic pockets with Apollo Tx
16:05 - Dr Kathryn Beardsall: NeWTS Wireless Monitoring for Neonatal Intensive Care
16:20 - Questions and Answers panel
16:35 - Keynote speaker - Prof. Ijeoma Uchegbu - Professor of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience at UCL, President of Wolfson College, Cambridge - Using the very small to tackle the very large
17:10 - Closing remarks - Professor Anne Willis, Co-Director, CATS
17:30 - Canapés, Drinks & Networking until 18:00
