Save the Date!
We are pleased to announce that “Aorta: Structure to Rupture 2024” will take place once again in Liverpool on Thursday 20th June 2024. This is always an exciting inter-disciplinary meeting bringing together engineers, biologists, and clinicians to discuss state-of-the-art research in aortic disease.
We encourage early career researchers to take part and there will be prizes for the best oral and poster presentation from ECRs.
Congratulations to Bojin Marinov who won the best poster prize for his first year work looking at collagen fibril degradation in bicuspid aortic valve patients at BioMedEng 2023 conference which was held in Swansea, 14 – 15 September 2023. Bojin is a PhD student in the Department of Materials, Design and Manufacturing Engineering working under the supervision of Dr Riaz Akhtar (Engineering) and Dr Jill Madine (Biochemistry) at the University of Liverpool.
Aorta: Structure to Rupture 2022 is less than 20 days away now. Below you can find the final programme and travel information.
Final Programme:
Registration will be open from 9 am. The meeting will commence at 930 am. The final programme can be accessed via the link below:
Aorta Structure to Rupture 2022 – Programme_final
Abstract Booklet:
Aorta Structure to Rupture 2022 – Abstract Booklet
Travel Instructions:
The meeting will be held in the Harrison Hughes Building (School of Engineering) with the talks taking place in the Mason Bibby Common Room on the 1st Floor.
If you are travelling by train, you can download a map with the walking route from Liverpool Lime St to Harrison Hughes building:
http://labb-group.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Lime-Street-to-Harrison-Hughes.pdf
Map of the campus can be accessed via:
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/files/docs/maps/liverpool-university-campus-map.pdf
If you are driving to Liverpool, please be aware that there are limited visitor car park spaces on campus. Locations of the visitor car parks are marked on the campus map above. Below is a summary of nearby public car park spaces in case you are not able to park on campus:
http://labb-group.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Public-Car-Park-Document.pdf
Online Registration
Online registration is required. If you have not yet registered, you can do so via the following link:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aorta-structure-to-rupture-2022-tickets-268077686577
We are looking forward to welcoming you all to Liverpool on 24th June 2022.
We are pleased to announce that our Aorta: Structure to Rupture meeting will be taking place this year face-to-face at the University of Liverpool on Friday 24th June 2022.
This is an interdisciplinary meeting bringing together clinicians, engineers and life scientists to explore state-of-the-art in aortic pathology research. Key topics this year will include:
We have a number of keynote speakers confirmed including:
Prof. John Elefteriades Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, USA
Prof. Vanessa Diaz Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College London
Prof. Yun Xu Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College
Catherine Fowler Aortic Dissection Charitable Trust
Prof. Kennedy Cruickshank King’s College and St Thomas’ & Guy’s Hospitals, London
Dr. Alex Fletcher BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh
We would like to introduce Professor Francesco Torella who has joined the LABB team and is now actively involved in our research efforts.
Francesco was appointed Consultant vascular/endovascular surgeon in 2003. He works at the Liverpool University Hospitals and at the Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital. He studied in Italy, Belgium and the United Kingdom and qualified in Medicine in 1992. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of surgeons of England in 1997 and subsequently trained in general/vascular surgery in Merseyside and Manchester. He was awarded his Doctor of Medicine postgraduate degree in Manchester with the thesis “Development and Evaluation of a Blood Transfusion Trigger by Near Infrared Spectroscopy”. He is a founding member of the Liverpool Cardiovascular Service, in which cardiac and vascular surgeons combine their skills to deliver treatment to patients with complex aortic disease. He has a research interest in aortic disease, as it can be seen from his numerous publications (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=torella%20f&sort=date&page=2; https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/mathematical-sciences/staff/francesco-torella/publications/). He is an advisor to the Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) on aortic endoprostheses. He has been an invited speaker at national and international meetings and learned societies on topics related to aortic disease, most recently the Vascular Society of Great Britain & Ireland, Royal College of Anaesthetists, Multidisciplinary European Endovascular Meeting, Perspectives in Vascular Surgery, Critical Issues in Aortic Endografting.
Congratulations to Phakakorn Panpho who passed her PhD viva today. Her PhD title was “Biomechanics and biochemistry of the aorta in chronic aortic dissection” and her examiners were Prof. Aung Oo (External examiner, Cardiovascular Surgery Clinical Lead for Aortovascular Surgery at The Barts Heart Centre) and Dr Jude Curran (Internal Examiner).
The LABB Group would like to thank Dr Hannah Davies for all her contributions to the LABB Group. Hannah was involved in our research since the inception of the LABB Group. Hannah has taken on a new role at University of Liverpool as the Human Material and Quality Assurance Officer. We wish her well in her new role.
Congratulations to Mark Field who has been appointed as an Honorary Associate Clinical Professor at University of Liverpool.
Mr Mark Field from our LABB Group is featured in the award-winning short film ‘Today is a Good Day – Aortic Dissection Awareness’ by Aortic Dissection Awareness UK and Ireland, which you can watch on the link below. A powerful reminder about why our research is so important.
orta: Structure to Rupture 2019 is just one week away. You can access the programme from the following link: <a href="http://labb-group.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Delegate-Join-us-information.docx">Delegate Join us information</a>
