Seminars
Wednesday 18th July 2007
(ARTS LT , Mile End)
Programme:
- 5-5.20pm “New approaches to bone regeneration” By Prof Joost de Bruijn
- 5.20-5.30pm Discussion
- 5.30-5.50pm "Biomaterial approaches to spinal cord and peripheral nerve repair" By Professor John Priestley.
- 5.50-6pm Discussion
- 6-7pm Refreshments in the Arts Foyer
Speakers:
Professor Joost de Bruijn- Professor of Biomaterials. School of Engineering and Materials
Joost D. de Bruijn, BSc, PhD, received his PhD Cum Laude from Leiden University (The Netherlands) in 1993 for his doctoral thesis ‘’Bone Bonding and Biodegradation of Calcium Phosphates”. During his PhD, he spend one year at the Centre for Biomaterials of the University of Toronto (Canada) under the guidance of Prof. JE Davies. After his post-doc period at the Biomaterials Research Group, Leiden University, Joost joined IsoTis BV in 1996 where he was responsible for the bone tissue engineering programme.
As Research Director Bone at IsoTis SA, Joost headed a research group of about 20 post-docs, PhD students, technicians and MSc students. Strong research efforts were directed towards the use of autologous osteoprogenitor cells in combination with biomaterial scaffolds. With this proprietary technique, for which he has received and submitted several patents and received the 6.5 MEuro Brite-EuRam grant ‘’IsoBone: A Tissue Engineered Living Bone Equivalent’’, de Bruijn’s group aimed to culture hybrid implant materials that mimic autologous bone graft. This research has led to the initiation of feasibility clinical trials in which 21 patients were implanted with their own cultured bone.
Joost has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, is an inventor of 21 international patents that either are pending or have been issued, and acts as a referee for several biomaterials and tissue engineering related journals.
Email: j.d.debruijn@qmul.ac.uk
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Professor John Priestley- Centre Lead - Professor of Cell Biology Centre - Institute of Cell and Molecular Science
Prof Priestley is head of the Neuroscience Centre at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). He moved to QMUL in 1997 to take up a personal chair in the Anatomy Department, after spending 12 years in the Departments of Physiology and Biochemistry at the Medical School of Guy's and St Thomas's in London. Prior to that he spent a year at UNC Chapel Hill in North Carolina , after 6 years as a PhD student and a Beit Memorial Research Fellow at the Univerity of Oxford. In 1977 Prof Priestley had graduated in Natural Sciences from Clare College Cambridge
Email:j.v.priestley@qmul.ac.uk
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