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SUMMARY:IET Prestige Lecture: Advanced Materials and 3D Printing for the R
 egeneration of Human tissues - Professor Kevin Shakesheff\, Director Wolfs
 on Centre for Tissue Engineering  
DTSTART:20150219T183000Z
DTEND:20150219T200000Z
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CONTACT:Tim Wilkinson
DESCRIPTION:Kevin is the Director of the UK Regenerative Medicine Platform
  Hub for Acellular Technologies. His talk will review how materials and en
 gineering advances are allowing complex human tissues to be regenerated. T
 he subject will encompass new polymer materials\, 3D printing and through 
 to the challenges of clinical and commercial translation of these complex 
 future medical products.\n\nProfessor Kevin Shakesheff\, Head of School of
  Pharmacy\, The University of Nottingham\, Director of the Wolfson Centre 
 for Stem Cells\, Tissue Engineering and Modelling (STEM)\nDuring the devel
 opment of the human embryo and successful spontaneous tissue repair\, the 
 3D architecture around cells is highly organised and controlled. This arch
 itecture combines gradients of signalling molecules\, surface chemistry\, 
 local mechanical properties and direct contacts between populations of cel
 ls. We are developing new tools that allow such architectures to be recrea
 ted in the laboratory. This presentation will include examples of 3D cell 
 patterning\, self assembly of materials and protein delivery systems that 
 have been applied to enhance the study of embryo development and to enhanc
 e tissue regeneration.
LOCATION:Wolfson Lecture  Room \, Churchill College\, Wilberforce Road\, C
 ambridge\, CB3 0WB
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