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Advances in electronics to solve unmet clinical needs
15 March 2021, 12:00 pm–1:30 pm
Chris Hancock, Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor will provide this talk on applying electronic design techniques and harnessing new technology developed for other sectors to treat cancer and other diseases that will Impact all of us one day. | This talk is aimed at undergraduate and taught Master Students, it is part of a series of lectures being presented by Professor Hancock as RAEng visiting professor.
This event is free.
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Open to
- UCL staff | UCL students
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
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Robert Thompson – Institute of Communications and Connected Systems
Advances in Electronics to solve Unmet Clinical Needs
Applying Electronic Design Techniques and Harnessing New Technology Developed for other Sectors to Treat Cancer and other Diseases that will Impact all of us one day
This talk considers microwave/RF design techniques along with advances in new technology, including components and electromagnetic simulation tools developed for the military and telecommunications sectors, that can be applied to the field of medicine to address a number of unmet clinical needs and provide better patient outcomes. Advances in RF and microwave semiconductor devices, new low loss materials that support the propagation of high-frequency microwave energy in miniature flexible transmission lines, and the use of advanced electromagnetic simulation tools, such as CST Microwave Studio are considered. This talk also considers the importance of impedance transformation at microwave frequencies to create quarter-wave and half-wave resonant structures that are matched into biological tissue structures.
This talk is part of a series of lectures being presented by Professor Hancock as RAEng visiting professor. Other talks in the series are:
Electromagnetic Energy to Transform Surgery
22 March 2021, 12:00 pm–1:30 pm
Chris Hancock, Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor will provide this talk exploring real-life examples of new advanced treatment solutions that are now making a difference to the life of patients all over the world.
We can all be Innovators and Entrepreneurs
24 March 2021, 12:00 pm–1:30 pm
Chris Hancock, Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor will provide this talk reflecting on the key ingredients required to turn an idea into a successful business that can chance life.
This talk is organised by the Institute of Communications and Connected Systems at UCL, in collaboration with the Institute of Healthcare Engineering as part of a Royal Academy of Engineering visiting professorship.
About the Speaker
Professor Chris Hancock
Chief Technology Officer and Founder at Creo Medical Limited
Creo’s advanced therapeutic energy therapeutic system and miniature instruments have been used now for treatment of patients worldwide for a range of cancers and has transformed the lives of many people – the aim of the company has always been to produce better patient outcomes. In 2009, he was appointed to the chair in Medical Microwave Systems at Bangor University and in 2018 he became a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting professor at UCL. In 2019 he was awarded the Institute of Physics Katherine Burr Blodgett Gold Medal and Prize for work on the development of advanced therapeutic energy delivery systems to perform minimally invasive surgery. Chris is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Chartered Physicist, Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, a Chartered Engineer and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is a named inventor and lead author on over 1000 patents/patent applications and scholarly publications.