HM Government, through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, has announced a £210M investment to support projects in the challenge area of ‘From data to early diagnosis and precision medicine’, which aims to see the UK lead the world in the development of innovative new diagnostic tools, medical products and treatments.

The University of Liverpool is hosting a workshop that will bring together clinicians and multi-disciplinary academic researchers in areas such as engineering, mathematics, computer science and big data as well as research facility leads, to identify these challenges and the ways in which our University can help meet them

The ultimate aim of the workshop is to best position the University to develop applications to the Government’s £210M challenge.

An agenda is detailed below:

09.30 – 10.00 Registration and Refreshments

Morning session (chair Professor Steve Rannard)

10.00 Introduction and opening address – Professor Wiebe Van der Hoek

10.15 Morning session topic summaries: Drug administration and delivery challenges

o Paediatrics drug administration (presented by Dr Dan Hawcutt)

o Clinical/infectious diseases (presented by Professor Saye Khoo)

o Pancreatitis (presented by Professor Robert Sutton)

11.15 Refreshments

11.30 Morning topics brainstorming sessions

12.45 Morning session review

13.00 Lunch break

Afternoon session (chair Professor Rachel Williams)

14.00 Introduction to the afternoon session – Professor Malcolm Jackson

o 14.15 Afternoon session topic summaries: Drug administration and delivery challenges - Melanoma (presented by Professor Sarah Coupland)

o Critical care/sepsis (presented by Dr Ingeborg Welters)

o Ageing (presented by Dr Asangaedem Akpan)

15.15 Afternoon topics brain storming sessions

16.15 Afternoon session feedback, workshop wrap-up and close

Please contact the University of Liverpool Industrial Strategy team if you have any queries at ISCF@liverpool.ac.uk.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided, please let us know of any allergies or dietary requirements prior to Friday 28th June, 2019.

Drug Administration and Delivery Workshop