| Ομιλητής: | Professor George Malliaras
Prince Philip Professor of Technology |
| Θέμα: | Materials and Devices for Bioelectronic Medicine |
| Ημερομηνία, ώρα: | Τετάρτη, 10 Ιουνίου 2026, 15:00 |
| Τόπος: | Διαδικτυακά μέσω του συνδέσμου: https://upatras-gr.zoom.us/j/95707503743?pwd=HAmvOsRXabp5M0wxnj08N4eB9FVmuO.1
Meeting ID: 957 0750 3743 Passcode: 841807 |
| Περίληψη: | Neurological conditions affect one in six people, imposing significant health, economic and societal burden. Bioelectronic medicine aims to restore or replace neurological function with the help of implantable electronic devices. Unfortunately, significant technological limitations prohibit these devices from reaching patients at scale, as implants are bulky, require invasive implantation procedures, elicit a pronounced foreign body response, and show poor treatment specificity and off-target effects. Over the past decade, novel materials and fabrication methods inspired from the microelectronics industry have been shown to overcome these limitations. Recent literature provides powerful demonstrations of thin film implants that are miniaturised, ultra-conformal, stretchable, multiplexed, integrated with different sensors and actuators, bioresorbable, and minimally invasive. I will discuss the state-of-the-art of these new technologies and the barriers than need to be overcome to reach patients at scale. |
| Σύντομο βιογραφικό: | George Malliaras is the Prince Philip Professor of Technology at the University of Cambridge (UK) and Director of the Institute for Biomedical Innovation. Prior to his appointment at Cambridge, he held faculty positions at Cornell University (USA) and the École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (France). His research in bioelectronics has earned him distinctions from the European Academy of Sciences, the Materials Research Society, the New York Academy of Sciences, the US National Science Foundation, and DuPont. He has received an Honorary Doctorate from Linköping University (Sweden) and is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Materials Research Society, Academia Europaea, and the European Academy of Sciences. He has published over 480 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including publications in top-tier journals, such as Science, Nature and Nature Materials, his h-index is 111 and he has over 41.000 heterocitations. |