14 November 2017

Making Replacement Body Parts in the Lab

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UCL

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Synopsis
Sometimes we may get so ill or injured that tissues and organs need replacing completely. Surgeons may try and do this by transplanting tissue from one person to another, but often there simply aren't enough replacement organs to go round. Scientists, like the speaker, are trying to find out ways to grow replacement body parts in the lab or to stimulate the body to make its own replacement tissue. Come and find out how they are trying to do this by using stem cells, drugs and biomaterials.
Programme

Day 1 - 14th November 2017

Event Schedule
17:45
Event welcome
18:15
Event begins
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Venue and Contact

UCL

Department of Chemistry
University College London
20 Gordon Street
London, WC1H 0AJ

Emma Thomas

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7598 1594

Email: communications@soci.org

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Additional Info

Speaker

Dr Nicholas Evans, University of Southampton

Nick is an Associate Professor in Bioengineering at the University of Southampton. He completed at PhD at King's College London and then he worked as an MRC postdoctoral fellow at Imperial College, researching embryonic stem cells. He now leads a research team at Southampton, working on stem cells and regenerative medicine, particularly bone and skin. He also hosts a science podcast called The ScienceShed.