Join us to explore opportunities to apply your engineering, technological, and AI solutions to clinical infection challenges.
±õ³¾±è±ð°ù¾±²¹±ô’sÌýMedTechONEÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýInstitute of InfectionÌýare partnering for the ‘Clinician-scientist-engineer challenges workshop in infection’ onÌý10 October, 4 – 6 pm, 58 Princes Gate.
The event follows similar successful events focused on intervention, diagnosis, and treatment and will bring together infection researchers, clinicians, engineers, and experts in a range of disciplines to explore clinically relevant infection challenges and how 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s interdisciplinary expertise can be harnessed to solve them. Solutions might include developing new technology (both software and hardware) or repurposing existing technology (including AI and machine learning).
ÌýThis event is open to 51³Ô¹ÏÍø academics and clinical academics.
The clinical challenges:
- Professor Darius Armstrong-James: Developing antigen arrays for diagnostics in lung transplantation.
- Professor Faith Osier: Artificial intelligence for predicting immune responses for vaccinology.
- Dr Anna Rydlova: Adapting AI-Driven epitope prediction methods for bacterial vaccine development: Investigating immunodominant epitopes in non-typhoidal Salmonella.
- Dr Benjamin Mullish and Professor Julian Marchesi: Challenges in gut microbiome sampling and manipulation for clinical benefit.
- Dr Aileen Rowan: Detecting Human T cell Leukaemia virus: a chance to break the cycle of transmission.
ÌýEngineering, technological, and AI solutions:
- Diagnostic solutions, including LAMP
- Artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning methods
- High-resolution antigen arrays
- Encapsulation of biological materials; drug delivery
- Gastrointestinal sampling technologies
- Sample collection solutions (membranes for dried blood spots, virus inactivation)
- Reverse epitope discovery