second annual fortisnet meeting: strength …...second annual fortisnet meeting: strength through...

Second Annual FortisNet Meeting: Strength through Collaboration

Institute for Life Sciences

Fabricating surfaces for skeletal stem cells

Courtesy of Professor Richard Oreffo, Bone and Joint Research Group, Centre for Human Development, Stem Cells and Regeneration.

200 μm

We hope you will enjoy the ‘in the moment’ art created by ‘Drawnalism’, summarising our work at the Second

Annual FortisNet Meeting on 20 January 2017.

IfLS team preparing conference packs ahead of the meeting 3

Welcome and introduction to FortisNet

Professor Peter JS Smith, Director, Institute for Life Sciences

We are grateful to Wessex Academic Health Science Network and HEFCE for financial support

for this event.

4

Growing and replacing hard and soft tissues

Chair: Professor Cyrus CooperUniversity of Southampton

5

Speakers and Panel Members:

•Mr Jeremy Latham, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Southampton

•Dr Abigail Spear, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory

•Mr Tom Wainwright, Orthopaedic Research Institute, Bournemouth University

6

Who Am I and Why Am I Here?

One slide, two minute pitch

7

Session 1 ‘Pitchers’:

•Dr Anne Roques*, Aurora Medical Ltd

•Nigel Clarke, Morgan Innovation and Technology Ltd

•Dr Debra Carr, Cranfield University

•Professor Jie Tong, University of Portsmouth

•Dr Agnieszka Janeczek, Renovos

•*Winner of the prize for best Pitch

8

Assistive Technologies and Rehabilitation

Chair: Professor Nikolaj GadegaardUniversity of Glasgow

9

Speakers and Panel Members:

•Professor Maria Stokes, University of Southampton

•Dr Philip Packer, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory

•Helen Hobbs, Hobbs Rehabilitation

10

Who Am I and Why Am I Here?

One slide, two minute pitch

11

Session 2 ‘Pitchers’:

•Sue Littlemore, Enterprise M3 Local Enterprise Partnership

•Dr Richard Cook, University of Southampton

•Jane Hunter, ProActive Prosthetics

12

Prosthetics and Augmentation

Chair: Professor David HowardUniversity of Salford

13

Speakers and Panel Members:

•Alex Lewis, Alex Lewis Trust

•Michael Hulland, Opcare

•Dr Alex Dickinson, University of Southampton

•Professor Noel Fitzpatrick, Fitzpatrick Referrals and The Humanimal Trust

14

Who Am I and Why Am I Here?

One slide, two minute pitch

15

Session 3 ‘Pitchers’:

• Christine McGrath, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

•Dr Peter Worsley, EPSRC-NIHR HTC Medical Devices and Vulnerable Skin Network, University of Southampton

•Dr Phil Marsden, Unitive Design and Analysis Ltd

•Frank Ratcliff, Wessex Academic Health Science Network

•Mr Harry Akerman, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

•Dr Axel Sylvan, myrecovery

16

Regional Development Opportunities

Chair: Professor Peter JS SmithInstitute for Life Sciences

17

Speakers and Panel Members:

•Kathy Slack, Enterprise M3 Local Enterprise Partnership

•Nick Thorne, Winchester Innovation Ltd

•Professor Peter JS Smith, Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton

18

FortisNet Pump-Priming Applications

19

We have supported 11 collaborative projects, funded by Wessex Academic Health Science Network and Higher Education Innovation Funding. The call was over-subscribed.

•Growing and Replacing Hard and Soft Tissues – 6 projects

•Augmentation and Strength – 2 projects

•Assistive Technologies and Rehabilitation – 3projects

These represent new projects, 8 of which arenew collaborations, and 10 of which are with partners external to the University of Southampton, including universities, industry and an NHS Trust. Projects will report at the end of March 2017.

20

Keynote lecture

21

Professor Noel FitzpatrickThe Humanimal Trust

The patient’s interest is the only interest –One Medicine for infection, regeneration,

drugs and implants

22

Inspirational Speakers

23

24

Forging New Collaborations

25

26

• 88 Participants (over-subscribed by 12%; others on waiting list to attend)

• 62% external to University of Southampton

• Universities: Bournemouth, Cranfield, Glasgow, Salford, Portsmouth, Southampton

• Dstl, MoD

• 20 Companies

• Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult

• University of Southampton Science Park

• SETsquared

•Wessex Academic Health Science Network

• Enterprise M3 Local Enterprise Partnership

• Test Valley Borough Council

• Alex Lewis Trust

• The Humanimal Trust

• University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Bournemouth & Christchurch Hospitals NHS Trust, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Great Ormond Street for Children NHS Foundation Trust

Thank you for your active participation and collaboration

27

www.southampton.ac.uk/fortisnetFor more information about FortisNet, contact the Institute for Life Sciences Collaboration Manager, Dr Alexandra Mant:

a.mant@southampton.ac.uk023 8059 4441

28