Wednesday 6th March 2013

08:30

Registration and Coffee

09:30

Welcome

09:45

Point of Care [Chair: Dr. Stuart Hendry]
Keynote: Enabling point of care diagnostics with semiconductor technologies - Dr. Paru Deshpande (Imec, BE)

The next generation of point of care sensors for Intensive Care- Dr. Shaw Fox (Sphere Medical Ltd, UK)

11:15

Coffee Break

11:45

Sensors in Healthcare: opportunities and success factors - Dr. John Rippeth (PA Consulting, UK)

ICT-enabled biodiagnostic systems for healthcare - Professor Calum McNeil (University of Newcastle, UK)

13:00

Buffet Lunch

14:00

Future Technology [Chair: Dr. Danny O'Hare]
Keynote: Minimally invasive sensors for personalised therapy - Professor Tony Cass (Imperial College, UK)

New approaches to probing host-pathogen interactions - Dr. Danny O'Hare (Imperial College, UK)

Peptide Nucleic Acid (PNA) fluorogenic probes for the minimally invasive and high-throughput profiling of circulating micro RNAs - Dr. Sylvain Ladame (Imperial College, UK)

15:30

Tea Break

16:00

Label-free nanomechnaical detection of biomarkers with a home-made optical-readout system - Dr. Zhugen Yang (University of Cambridge, UK)

Microfluidic based sensor systems - real time detection of tissue falure in the intensive care unit - Professor Martyn Boutelle (Imperial College, UK)

Similia –similibus, or how homologous genes sense each other from a distance - Professor Alexei Kornyshev (Imperial College, UK)

17:00

View Exhibits and Wellcome Galleries

18:30

Reception

20:30

Reception ends

Thursday 7th March 2013

08:30

Registration and Coffee

09:30

Introduction

09:45

Breath Analysis [Chair: Dr. Michael Brand]
Keynote: Clinical Breath Analysis: Past, present and future- A personal perspective - Professor Terence Risby (Johns Hopkins University, USA)

Breath analysis: clinical research to end user market- Trevor Smith - Bedfont Scientific Limited (UK)

11:15

Coffee Break

11:45

Thje breathprints of gastric cancer and benign gastric conditions - Dr. Yoav Broza (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)

Breath analysis an effective point of care diagnostic for respiratory diseases, Dr. Victror Higgs (Applied Nanodetectors Ltd, UK)

13:00

Buffet Lunch

14:00

Wearable Sensors [Chair: Dr. Michael Brand]
Keynote:From managing illness to managing health: an opportunity for wearable sensors - Professor Chris van Hoof (Imec BE)

Textiles with Electronic Functionality - Professor Tilak Dias (Nottingham Trent University, UK)

15:30

Tea Break

16:00

Panel Discussion [Chair: Dr. Michael Brand]
The future of sensors in medicine

17:30

Conference ends