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SUMMARY:Engineering the Future of Medicine - Professor Serena Best\, Depar
 tment of Materials Science\, Cambridge University
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CONTACT:Publicity Officer\, IMechE Beds & Cambs area
DESCRIPTION:Professor Serena Best will talk about how engineering is enabl
 ing advances in medicine - in particular 'regenerative medicine' and tissu
 e engineering.\n\nAdvances in regenerative medicine depend on the developm
 ent of bioactive scaffolds that are able to control the biological process
 es in adjacent tissues. This talk will describe the innovation of several 
 types of materials for a range of skeletal and soft tissue repair applicat
 ions.\n\nProfessor Best co-directs the Cambridge Centre for Medical Materi
 als (CCMM)\, a major research activity within the Department of Materials 
 Science and Metallurgy (MSM)\, University of Cambridge.\n\nHer main resear
 ch interest is in field of bioactive ceramics\, ceramic composites and col
 lagen-based scaffolds for hard and soft tissue repair. She is particularly
  interested in synthetic bone materials.\n\nProfessor Best completed a fir
 st degree in Materials Technology at Surrey University and a PhD in Biocer
 amics at Queen Mary and Westfield College. She then worked at the Cookson 
 Technology Centre in Yarnton\, Oxfordshire. She returned to Queen Mary and
  Westfield College to run the Bioceramics Research Group\; a particular in
 terest in the Group was novel apatite-based ceramics. Professor Best was a
 ppointed reader in the Department of Materials Science at Cambridge Univer
 sity in 2004 having served as lecturer since 2000. Her prizewinning work o
 n apatites has led to two company spin-outs: Orthomimetics (now Tigenix) a
 nd Apatech Ltd (now Baxter).\n\nDate: Tuesday 25th November\n\nTime: Refre
 shments served from 18.30. Talk starts at 19.00. Ends by 21:00 following q
 uestions and discussion.\n\nVenue: Institute for Manufacturing\, Cambridge
  University\, Alan Reece Building\, 17 Charles Babbage Road\, Cambridge CB
 3 0FS ("directions":http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/contact/). There is ample
  free parking in the IfM's carpark beside the building\; the carpark entra
 nce is just past the IfM's service road.\n\nFree to attend. Booking not re
 quired. All welcome.\n\nThis talk is open to the public and is suitable fo
 r young people\, students and engineers. You are encouraged to pass on thi
 s invitation and bring with you colleagues\, friends and family who are in
 terested in engineering and medicine.\n\nA poster to advertise this talk c
 an be downloaded "here":http://nearyou.imeche.org/docs/default-source/Beds
 ---Cambs-Area/medicine_poster.pdf.\n\nThis event is organised by the Insti
 tution of Mechanical Engineers Beds and Cambs area.
LOCATION:Institute for Manufacturing\, 17 Charles Babbage Road\, Cambridge
  CB3 0FS
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