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Date: Tuesday 15th October 2024
Time: 12:30-2:00pm
Venue: JCBC lecture theatre, Puddicombe Way, Cambridge CB2 0AW (Note different venue)
Register at: https://eci-seminar-utkan-demirci.eventbrite.co.uk

The seminar series from the Early Cancer Institute aims to connect researchers in the early cancer detection and diagnosis space to share knowledge and spark collaboration. Join fellow researchers for lunch and an opportunity to network.

On Tuesday 15th October we welcome Professor Utkan Demirci from the Department of Radiology at Stanford University School of Medicine and the Canary Center at Stanford for Cancer Early Detection Electrical Engineering (by courtesy) to give a talk: 'Impacting medicine with microfluidics & nanotechnology: Advancing diagnostics and medicine.'

This event will take place in the Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre lecture theatre, Puddicombe Way, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0AW

Lunch is provided from 12:30pm, the talk will begin at 1.00pm followed by a Q&A. Please ensure you arrive promptly.

Note that this event is in a different location from usual - please make time to get there.

Talk abstract:

Micro and nanoscale technologies can have a significant impact on medicine and biology in the areas of cell manipulation, diagnostics and monitoring. At the convergence of these new technologies and biology, we research for enabling solutions to real-world problems at the clinic. Emerging nanoscale and microfluidic technologies integrated with biology offer innovative possibilities for creating intelligent, medical, microfluidic lab-chip devices that could transform diagnostics and monitoring, microrobotics, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. We will present interesting applications of microfluidic technologies in IVF, applications of extracellular vesicles in cancer.

Speaker Biography:

Dr. Utkan Demirci, UofM’99, Stanford’01’05’05, is a Professor of Radiology (with tenure) and of Electrical Engineering (by courtesy) at the Canary Center at Stanford for Cancer Early Detection, Stanford University School of Medicine, where he leads a productive researcher group. Utkan is a tenured professor at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Prior to joining Stanford in 2014, he held the position of Associate Professor at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital-Harvard Medical School and also served at the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology division. Over the past decade, his research group has focused on the early detection of cancer and has made significant contributions to the development of microfluidic platforms for sorting rare cells and exosomes and point-of-care bio-sensing technologies.

Utkan leads a productive and impactful research group focused on addressing problems from the clinic with innovations including cell sorter for IVF, optical technologies for detecting viruses, portable point of care technologies for diagnostics in global health, smart robots in vivo, extracellular vesicle based early detection approaches for cancer.

He is an elected fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and The Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research Distinguished Investigator. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles, 300 abstracts and proceedings, 24 book chapters and editorials, and 7 edited books. He also serves on the editorial board of various journals. He holds 15 patents (11 of which are translated into biomedical products) and has co-founded 5 companies. Dr. Demirci's pioneering work in microfluidic cell sorting has resulted in CE certified and FDA approved microfluidic devices used in over 500,000 clinical cases and readily accessible in over 1000+ IVF clinics serving patients globally.

Date: 
Tuesday, 15 October, 2024 - 12:30 to 14:00
Event location: 
Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre lecture theatre, Puddicombe Way, Cambridge CB2 0AW