Full Symposium Programme

Sponsored by UCL Business PLC

December 13th 2007

14:15 - 17:15

14:15 - Welcome Prof Michael Spyer
Vice-Provost of Enterprise, University College London

14:20 - A Novel Treatment for Hepatic Encephalopathy Download overview PDF
Dr Rajiv Jalan
Royal Free & University College Medical School
Institute of Hepatology
University College London
Contact: Dr Abbie Harris

14:30 - Genex – Synthetic Gene Delivery Technologies for Therapy, Research and Biomanufacturing Download overview PDF
Dr Steven Hart
UCL Institute of Child Health, Molecular Immunology Unit
University College London
CSO Genex
Contact: Dr Sophie Khanna

14:40 - ProAxon: Neural Protective Sodium Channel Antagonists – a Novel Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis Download overview PDF
Dr David Selwood and Prof John Garthwaite
Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Sciences
University College London
Director ProAxon
Contact: Dr Carol Harty

14:50 - Canbex - A New Drug for the Treatment of Spasticity in MS Download overview PDF
Dr David Selwood
Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Sciences
University College London
Director Canbex
Contact: Dr Abbie Harris

15:00 - Evexar – Medical Devices Designed BY Surgeons FOR Surgeons Download overview PDF
Mr Stephen GE Barker
Honorary Consultant Vascular Surgeon
Department of Surgery
University College London
Medical Director Evexar
Contact: Dr Richard Fagan

15:10 - Endomagnetics - SentiMAG™, for the Staging and Treatment of Breast Cancer Download overview PDF
Professor Quentin Pankhurst
Deputy Director of the London Centre for Nanotechnology and Professor of Physics
Dept of Physics and Astronomy
University College London
CSO Endomagnetics
Contact: Dr Mike Arnott

15:20 - Novel UCL Nanocomposite Polymer and its Unique Role in the Field of Biomedical Devices
Winner of the 2007 Medical Futures Innovation Award Download overview PDF
Professor Alex Seifalian
UCL Centre for Materials Research
University College London
Contact: Karen Cheetham

15:30 - Small Molecule Carriers (SMoC): Importing Cargo into Cells Download overview PDF
Dr David Selwood
Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Sciences
University College London
Contact: Dr Carol Harty

TEA BREAK

30 mins

16:10 - Peptides Stimulating Regulatory CD4+ T Cells; a Treatment for
Auto-immune Diseases Download overview PDF
Dr Shahriar Behboudi
Royal Free & University College Medical School
Institute of Hepatology, University College London:
Contact: Dr Abbie Harris

16:20 - Ultra-Rapid Tissue Fabrication by Collagen Plastic Compression Download overview PDF
Professor Robert Brown
UCL Institute of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Science
University College London
Contact: Dr Abbie Harris

16:30 - DDAH small molecule antagonists for the treatment of sepsis Download overview PDF
Dr James Leiper
Royal Free & University College Medical School
Centre for Clinical Pharmacology
University College London
Contact: Dr Carol Harty

16:40 - DARC and Novel Imaging Techniques in Glaucoma Download overview PDF
Dr Francesca Cordeiro
Institute of Opthamology
Glaucoma & Retinal Neurodegeneration Research Group
University College London
Contact: Dr Sophie Khanna

16:50 - Drug Lifecycle Visualisation Tool - In Vivo Download overview PDF
Dr Simon Waddington and Dr Tristan McKay
Dept of Haematology
Royal Free Campus
University College London
Contact: Dr Richard Fagan

17:00 - The London Project to Cure Blindness: Stemming Vision Loss using
Stem Cells Download overview PDF
Professor Pete Coffey
Professor of Cellular Therapy and Visual Sciences
Institute of Opthamology
University College London
Contact: Dr Sophie Khanna

17:10 - Domainex: Solutions for Drug Discovery Problems Download overview PDF
Mr Eddy Littler
CEO DomaineX
Contact: Dr Alan Stuttle

17:30 - 18:30 - NETWORKING RECEPTION

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