Webinar themes and speakers:

• The Medical Device Manufacturing Centre: from concept to commercialisation - Marc Desmulliez, Heriot-Watt University
• Electronics for Healthcare and Neuroscience - Srinjoy Mitra, University of Edinburgh
• AI and data driven integrated sensing platforms for Care and Assistive Living - Tughrul Arslan, University of Edinburgh

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Speaker biographies

• Prof. Marc Desmulliez (MD) is Associate Principal for Impact and Professor at the Research Institute of Sensors, Signals and Systems (ISSS) of the School of Engineering of Engineering & Physical Sciences (EPS) at Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, UK. He is now currently managing the Medical Device Manufacturing Centre (www.mdmc.w.ac.uk), interacting with over 150 SMEs specialized in medical devices. His research interests have turned recently to advanced manufacturing technologies, more specifically the understanding and translation of natural processes to manufacturing principles, an arguably new topic of research in engineering. He is also interested in the manufacturing of medical devices and recently was awarded a £2.5M EPSRC -funded Place-Based Impact acceleration Account for the translation of community healthcare technological technologies. Marc has held grants of compounded value of more than £45M as PI/CI, published over 512 journal papers or conference proceedings articles, and holds 9 patents and 3 Design Rights. He span out 3 companies. His most recent company, MicroSense Technologies Ltd which aims at sensing quality of food products and assets such as buildings or bridges (www.microsensetechnologies.com). This initiative got him the shared £45,000 first prize in the Converge Challenge 2016, the most prestigious entrepreneurship award in Scotland.  

• Srinjoy Mitra is an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh. He received his B.S. degree in physics and electronics from Calcutta, India and his M.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. After spending a some time in the electronics industry, he received his PhD from the Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich in 2004. Between 2008 and 2010 he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. He then joined the medical electronics team at IMEC, Belgium and worked there as a senior scientist until early 2016. He returned to academia as a Lecturer in the Biomedical Engineering Division at the University of Glasgow. In 2017 he moved to the Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Sensors, University of Edinburgh. His research interest is in electronic sensor interfaces and analog circuits.    

•  Professor Tughrul Arslan holds the personal chair of Integrated Electronic Systems with the School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U.K. He is a member of the Integrated Micro and Nano Systems (IMNS) Institute and leads the Embedded Mobile and Wireless Sensor Systems (Ewireless) Group at the University (ewireless.eng.ed.ac.uk). He is inventor of more than 20 patents, most of which have been licensed to spinouts he cofounded and Tier 1 companies. During the past 10 years his research has focused on Radio Frequency based sensing and the identification of unobtrusive wearable, portable, and/or IoT based sensing systems for a range of healthcare conditions. He is an investigator in a number of national healthcare projects including the advanced Care Research Centre (ACRC). 

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The Explore: HealthTech webinar series offers an opportunity for companies across sectors to access the latest research and expertise at the University of Edinburgh in collaboration with Heriot-Watt University, CPI, and the Medical Device Manufacturing Centre. 

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