Sarah Cartmell, Professor of bioengineering at the University of Manchester, talking about "Growing bones with electricity", on the Engineering Stage, at New Scientist Live 2019
Electricity is integral to life. In this talk, Sarah Cartmell describes how applying different electrical signals to cells can either alter their activity and cause them to grow in number quickly or for them to start producing more tissue matrix. Discover how her team has used this approach to tissue engineer new bone that can be implanted into people. And find out how a variety of new conducting polymers can support the growth of cells and tissue. Sarah will also describe how a new patented device made from a nanofibrous degradable polymer can help damaged tendons regrow, potentially reducing healing time and increasing the strength of tendon repair. Sarah was appointed professor of bioengineering at the University of Manchester in 2014. She has a B. Eng. in materials science with clinical engineering and a PhD in clinical engineering from the University of Liverpool and has worked at GeorgiaTech, Atlanta and Keele University before moving to The University of Manchester in 2010. Sarah is currently deputy head of the School of Materials which is home to nearly 2,000 students. She is also the UK biomedical materials champion for The Royce Institute of a £235million UK government investment for advanced materials. Sarah has been awarded 51 research grants totaling over £22million. She is elected secretary of the UK Tissue and Cell Engineering Society and an outreach committee member of The Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society; EU chapter.
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