Making in Biomed Symposium

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 abstract deadline is the 12th 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

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