Topic：Optimising Composites for Bone Augmentation
Speaker：Elizabeth Tanner
Fellow of the Royal Academy，Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Queen Mary, University of London
Time：14：00-17:00, November 1 (Friday), 2019
Venue：Conference Room B2-335, University Town Campus
Welcome teachers and students to participate!
College of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering
October 30, 2019
【Biography】Professor Liz Tanner returned to Queen Mary University of London as the Bonfield Professor of Biomedical Materials in September 2018 and is the Director of the Institute of Bioengineering. She brings together research in biomedical engineering in Science and Engineering and St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London Hospitals and Medical School. She was Professor of Biomedical Materials at the University of Glasgow 2007-2018. At Glasgow she developed and ran the first undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering in Scotland. Her expertise is biomaterials for bone augmentation based on composites of polymers reinforced with bioactive ceramics which are chemically close to bone mineral. These materials are either permanent, as used in middle ear implants, or degradable such as used in bone tissue engineering and fracture fixation. HAPEX a material she helped develop was used in middle ear implants in ¼ million patients. She is one of the Organisers of the 11th World Biomaterials Congress in Glasgow in 2020. She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.