Oriel Science Café - Organ on a chip

College of Science

Speaker

Dr Sofia Teixeira

From: 27 Jun 2018, 7:30 p.m.
To: 27 Jun 2018, 10:30 p.m.
Location: National Waterfront Museum, Swansea

In 1959, Richard Feynman laid the foundations of nanotechnology by pronouncing the famous line “There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom”. Almost sixty years later, this line is still very pertinent and applies to many fields, including medicine. Nanodevices have made and will continue to make a difference in detecting, studying and fighting diseases, while making medical care more accessible to everyone. This talk will showcase the new frontier of nanomedicine: modelling the human organs on small devices


Contact: Oriel Science (Email: orielscience@swansea.ac.uk) - Telephone: 4396

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