The Making in Biomed Symposium is organised by the Crick Making Science Technology Platform, Imperial College London, and UCL London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN). It will bring together people, ideas and activities focusing on engineering development to tackle biological challenges from both the Crick, Imperial, UCL and partner universities, and the wider research community.
Participants will include experts from our founding institutions, the wider UK research ecosystem, and international collaborators. Through open dialogue, shared challenges, and cross-disciplinary exchange, we hope to establish a dynamic network that inspires novel applications, fosters translational projects, and accelerates progress. This initiative will also highlight ongoing engineering projects, shared resources, and collaborative opportunities—laying the foundation for a sustained, idea-driven community built to tackle biology’s most pressing questions.
The conference topics include, but are not limited to:
microfluidics, biomaterial, tissues engineering bioprinting in-vitro modelling, organ on chip, micro and nano manufacturing, system engineering, electronics, programming, automation, robotics, applied in various fields from cell development, mechanobiology, cancer research, neuroscience, biochemistry.
We strongly encourage junior researchers, engineers and those with work in progress to apply for a talk or poster using this link. The extended abstract deadline is the 19th of September 2025
For further information, please contact biological-making-workshop@crick.ac.uk
Sponsors
We would like to thank the University Partnership Networking Fund for supporting this event.
We would also like to thank our commercial sponsors for their continued support- Durham Magneto Optics, Cairn Research, A-gas, Thorlabs, Additive-X, Hamilton, Bico and Eden Microfluidics.
Provisional program
09:00-10:30 Session 1
10:30-11:00 Refreshment break
11:00-12:30 Session 2 and Keynote
12:30-13:30 Lunch and poster session
13:30-15:00 Session 3
15:00-15:20 Refreshment break
15:20-17:00 Session 4 and Keynote
17:00-19:00 Drinks reception and poster session
