Description

This is the virtual launch event for the Future Blood Testing Network! The Future Blood Testing Network+ is a new Network funded by EPSRC. We are aiming to build a multi-disciplinary community to develop digital health technologies for remote, rapid, affordable and inclusive monitoring and personalised analytics. Sign up to our launch event to meet the Network Team, and find out more about our Network! There will be presentations on our different Network themes given by the Network Management Team, in addition to presentations given by healthcare professionals and medical researchers. There will also be a Q+A Panel with the Network Management Team to enable you to find out more about our research and planned activities! This event will be run on zoom and the talks from the different Network Managers will be recorded and made available on our YouTube Channel.

Draft Agenda

• 09:30-09:35: Welcome
• 09:35-09:50: Introduction from University of Reading team – Prof Adrian Williams, Prof Adrian Bell and Prof Keiichi Nakata
• 09:50-10:50: Session 1: Introducing the Network & Network Themes

• 09:50-10:00: Network Introduction – Dr Weizi Li (University of Reading)
• 10:00-10:10: Network Theme: Sensor Technologies – Dr Serhiy Korposh (University of Nottingham)
• 10:10-10:20: Network Theme: Continuous blood processing for patient specific therapies (TBA) - Dr Rob Barker (University of Kent)
• 10:20-10:30: Network Theme: Can blood sampling become a new data source in the role of self-monitoring and self-management of health? – Dr Mark Elliott (University of Warwick)
• 10:30-10:40: Network Theme: Digital and data-driven blood monitoring and analytics for patient centred care pathways – Dr Weizi Li (University of Reading)
• 10:40-10:50: Network Theme: The potential of machine learning and AI for blood based investigations – Prof Jeremy Frey (University of Southampton)

• 10:50-11:00: Coffee Break
• 11:00-12:15: Session 2: Healthcare Theme

• 11:00-11:15: Remote Immune Monitoring: Need, Opportunities and Challenges - Prof Kourosh Saeb-Parsy (University of Cambridge & Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
• 11:15-11:35: The Application of Machine Learning for Classification on Blood Pressure Variability. A New Approach for an Old Idea - Prof Kelvin Tsoi (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, School of Public Health and Primary Care)
• 11:35-11:50: New Technologies and therapies in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus management - Dr Theingi Aung (Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust)
• 11:50-12:05: Remote management of acute illness - bringing the safety of the hospital to the comfort of the patient's home - Dr Joseph Nunan & Dr Dionne Tannetta (Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust)
• 12:05-12:15: Communicating with the Network & Landscape Workshops – Dr Samantha Kanza (University of Southampton & University of Reading)
• 12:15-12:25: Coffee Break
• 12:25-13:00: Panel Discussion with Speakers [Chaired by Prof Adrian Bell ] - Dr Weizi Li , Dr Serhiy Korposh, Dr Rob Barker , Dr Mark Elliott, Prof Jeremy Frey, Prof Kourosh Saeb-Parsy, Prof Kelvin Tsoi , Dr Theingi Aung, Dr Joseph Nunan & Dr Dionne Tannetta
• 13:00-13:15: Wrap Up

About Future Blood Testing Network

We are the Future Blood Testing Network+ (Future Blood Testing for Inclusive Monitoring and Personalised Analytics Network+). The Network+ is funded by EPSRC under grant number EP/W000652/1 and is hosted at the University of Reading. We are aiming to build a multi-disciplinary community to develop digital health technologies for remote, rapid, affordable and inclusive monitoring and personalised analytics. We have identified three key technology challenges for our Network: remote monitoring, information and communication technology, personalised analytics and artificial intelligence (AI).

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