November 19, 2008

engineering better health

Speakers:
Prof Christofer Toumazou FREng FRS, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London
Prof Lionel Tarassenko, FREng, University of Oxford
Prof Jon Cooper, FREng FRSE, University of Glasgow

Personalised medicine is on its way, driven both by science and social attitudes about consumer choice. But how will this actually be delivered? What does it mean for medical technology and healthcare? To coincide with a conference run by the Royal Academy of Engineering on ‘Engineering Better Health’, the Science Media Centre brought together some of the leading experts in this area to talk about their work and the exciting advances it promises.