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SUMMARY:Applying science and engineering in healthcare – successes and f
 ailures - Professor David Delpy\, UCL
DTSTART:20181018T173000Z
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CONTACT:Biomedical Engineering Association - Cambridge Centre
DESCRIPTION:Applying science and engineering to healthcare is one of the m
 ost multidisciplinary areas of R&D and can be one of the most rewarding (a
 lthough also occasionally frustrating)! Developing a new diagnostic\, moni
 toring or treatment technique in the laboratory is exciting\, but the real
  reward is to get that technique out of the lab and into use on patients. 
 Doing this successfully requires a very broad and multidisciplinary collab
 oration between scientists\, engineers\, clinical staff\, industry and pat
 ients and can often take many years (though if the breakthrough is reporte
 d by the media\, this is usually shortened into an opening sentence “Doc
 tors have developed...”).\n\nOur Speaker\, Professor Delpy originally st
 udied physics and after two years in industry\, spent 35 years at Universi
 ty College London (UCL) developing techniques for the monitoring newborn i
 nfants. He is best known for developments of NIR Spectroscopy and Imaging 
 of brain oxygenation. Many companies have marketed devices developed by hi
 m and his team.\n\nAfter seven years as Research Vice Provost\, he left UC
 L in 2007 to become the CEO of the EPSRC\, stepping down in 2014. He was t
 hen Chair of the Defence Scientific Advisory Council from 2014 to 2017 and
  is currently Chair of the Strategic Advisory Board for the UK National Qu
 antum Technologies Programme and Emeritus Professor of Biomedical Optics a
 t UCL.\n\nHe is a Fellow of the Royal Society\, the Royal Academy of Engin
 eering\, and the Academy of Medical Sciences.\n\nHe will describe a series
  of monitoring and imaging technique developments that he has been involve
 d in and look at the process of successful (and some unsuccessful) transla
 tion of these into clinical practice.
LOCATION:Department of Engineering University of Cambridge Trumpington Str
 eet Cambridge CB2 1PZ
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