Christos Bergeles, Senior lecturer at King's College London, explaining how micro-robotics can be used to help cure blindness, On the Technology Stage at New Scientist Live 2019
Treatments to cure blindness using pioneering stem cell therapies are rapidly coming within grasp. But biology is only part of the story. Such therapies need to be delivered to very exact positions within the retina, which is made up of multiple layers each thinner than a human hair. In this talk, Christos Bergeles describes his work with Moorfields Eye Hospital to bring about innovations in robotic micro-surgery and new devices specifically for the unique environment of the eye. Christos will explain how the various technologies work and how we can engineer better health through collaborations between clinicians, technicians and biologists. Christos Bergeles directs the robotics and vision in medicine lab which designs and builds micro-surgical robots that deliver regenerative therapies deep inside the human body. Christos is developing instrumentation that delivers stem cells to diseased retinal layers. Christos conducts research on surgical robotics and image-guidance algorithms. More specifically, he is working at the interface of flexible surgical robots, medicine, and biology, investigating how miniaturised flexible robots can assist in the delivery of cellular-level therapies such as genes and stem cells. Christos’ Robotics and Vision in Medicine team is embedded in the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences. Christos is closely collaborating with teams from UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital.
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