Scientists in schools Cutting edge science
Date/Time
Starting: 18th January 2023
9:45 am - 2:30 pm
Location
St Edward's School
18 January 2023
Programme
9.45 am Registration and coffee
10.10 am Welcome Alistair Chirnside (Warden, St Edward’s School), Keith Foster (Vice-President of OIBC)
10.20 am Oliver Featherstone (The Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research) The future of cancer therapies: moving away from the cutting edge
11.10 am Break
11.30 am Naroa Ibarra-Aizpurua (PhD Student, Laboratory of Molecular Neurodegeneration, University of Oxford) Induced-Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC)-derived cell models as a tool to study Parkinson’s disease
11:55 am Oliver McCallion (PhD Student, University of Oxford) Can we use our own cells as medicine?
12.20 pm Lunch
1.10 pm Hana Hassanin (University of Surrey) mRNA-based therapeutics concept and its medical application
2.0 pm General Debate – Chair: Rebecca Thomas (St Edward’s School)
2.20 pm Close of symposium