Health - Question and Answer Session

Session
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
00:12 - 00:12
Duration: 22 mins
Publication date: 12 Mar 2013
Location: IETTV_Room, IETTV_Venue, London, United Kingdom
Part of event Global Grand Challenges Summit

About the session

This panel discussion showcases the contribution of engineering research to the frontiers of healthcare, from bioengineering, to new surgery and imaging techniques, to regenerative and personalised medicine. It asks how these new technologies and related advances in data and information technology can be mobilised and built on in the coming decades to enhance the quality of care available in our clinics and hospitals, to provide our ageing populations with better opportunities for an active and independent old age, and to offer a healthier future to the developing world.

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Speakers

Lord Ara Darzi

Imperial College London, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery

Lord Darzi holds the Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery at Imperial College London. He is an Honorary Consultant Surgeon at Imperial College Hospital NHS Trust and the Royal Marsden Hospital, and holds the Chair of Surgery at the Institute of Cancer Research. In October 2010, he was appointed as Chairman for the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College. In 2012, he took up the role of Chair, Imperial College Health Partners. He was knighted for his services in medicine and surgery in 2002; in 2007 he was introduced to the United Kingdom’s House of Lords and appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Health. He relinquished this role in July 2009 when he was appointed the United Kingdom’s Global Ambassador for Health and Life Sciences, a role reconfirmed in 2010 by Prime Minister David Cameron. He was appointed as a member of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council in June 2009. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Jim Al-Khalili

University of Surrey, Professor of Physics

Jim Al-Khalili is a professor of physics, author and broadcaster based at the University of Surrey where he currently teaches and also holds a chair in public engagement in science. He received his PhD in nuclear physics in 1989 and remains active in research in theoretical physics. He is active as a science communicator and has written a number of popular science and history of science books, between them translated into over twenty languages. His latest is Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics. Jim is a regular presenter of TV science documentaries, including the Bafta nominated Chemistry: A Volatile History and, most recently, Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity and Order and Disorder, both for BBC4. He also presents the weekly BBC Radio 4 programme, The Life Scientific. He provides expert advice for bodies such as the Royal Society, the British Council and the Department for Education. He is also active in public life and is a strong advocate for rationalism and secularism and has recently taken over as president of the British Humanist Association. He is a recipient of the Royal Society Michael Faraday medal and the Institute of Physics Kelvin Medal. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2008.
Dr. Frances Arnold

California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry

Dr Frances Arnold is the Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Her research focuses on directed evolution of enzymes and biosynthetic pathways, with applications to alternative energy, chemicals, and medicine. Frances received her bachelors degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University in 1979. Frances was awarded her doctorate in chemical engineering at the University of California-Berkeley. After postdoctoral work, she joined the Caltech faculty. She has received numerous honours and awards including the US National Medal of Technology and Innovation and the Charles Stark Draper Prize of the US National Academy of Engineering. She is the only woman to be elected to membership in all three US national academies: the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Sciences.An Advisory Board member of the Joint BioEnergy Institute and the Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering, Frances also serves on the President’s Advisory Council at KAUST and is a judge for The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. Frances has served on the science advisory boards of numerous companies, including Gevo, Inc., which she co-founded in 2005. She has co-authored over 200 publications and is co-inventor on 36 US patents.
Dr. Qimin Zhan

Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Vice President

Dr Qimin Zhan is Vice President of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology. He trained at Suzhou University Medical College and the Peking Union Medical College and obtained postdoctoral experience at the University of California, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Centre at Dallas and the National Cancer Institute of National Institutes of Health, and was a tenured faculty member in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He is currently a Professor at Peking Union Medical College and a Senior Investigator in Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Cancer Institute. Zhan is Chairman of the National Advisory Board for 863 High-Tech plan in biomedical sciences and Chief Scientist of the 973 National Fundamental Program (cancer field). His research focus is the molecular pathways involved in controlling cell cycle checkpoint and apoptosis after DNA damage. He is also interested in signalling pathways involved in regulation of the maintenance of genomic stability and tumor metastasis. His research has attracted multiple grants. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed SCI papers in prestigious jou
Rebecca Richards-Kortum

Rice University, Stanley C. Moore Professor of Bioengineering and Chair of Bioengineering

Rebecca Richards-Kortum is Stanley C. Moore Professor of Bioengineering and Chair of Bioengineering at Rice University. She is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Biomedical Engineering Society. She has won numerous awards for her teaching and research. Rebecca’s lab develops inexpensive, portable optical imaging systems that provide point-of-care diagnosis for cancer, pre-cancer, and infectious disease in low-resource settings. These technologies have been applied in the US, Botswana, Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and Taiwan.In 2006, Rebecca founded the HHMI-supported program Beyond Traditional Borders (BTB), a minor in global health technologies that has engaged more than 10% of Rice’s undergraduates. Students have designed more than 50 technologies that have been used by physicians in 19 countries in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. BTB won the Science Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction in 2012.

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