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We are just a few days away from Aorta: Structure to Rupture 2024. You can download the final programme and abstract booklet from the links below:

Aorta Structure to Rupture 2024 – Final Programme

Aorta Structure to Rupture 2024 – Booklet_final

The event will take place in the Harrison Hughes Building, The Quadrangle, University of Liverpool with registration from 9 am. We look forward to seeing you all in Liverpool.

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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.

 

 

 



September 16, 2023 RiazAnnouncementsNews0

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:

  • Biochemistry and biomechanics of ascending/thoracic aneurysms
  • Surgical challenges and risk prediction for dissections and aneurysms
  • Aortic stiffness and vascular ageing
  • Novel bioengineering techniques for vascular research including computational and experimental modelling/testing

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 are accepting abstracts for the meeting until 31st March 2022. Abstracts should be submitted online using the following link: https://forms.gle/NWGSh361fWcuc1H97

Registration is required for all attendees: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aorta-structure-to-rupture-2022-tickets-268077686577 

Poster for Aorta Structure to Rupture 2022



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).

 



February 21, 2021 RiazAnnouncementsNews0

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.


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