Invited Speakers

Prof. Marina Kuimova, Imperial College London
Personalised biomedical diagnostics: where we are and what the future holds?
Prof. Hermant Pandit, University of Leeds
Dr. Sally Peyman, Heriot-Watt University
Prof. Dan Watts, University of York

Prof. Marina Kuimova

Marina Kuimova is a Professor of Chemical Physics at Imperial College London. Marina obtained her Master's Degree at Moscow State University (Russia), and a doctorate at the University of Nottingham (UK) under the supervision of Professor M. W. George in 2006. Following a postdoctoral appointment with Professor David Phillips at Imperial, she became a group leader and an EPSRC Life Science Interface Fellow (in 2007) and an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow (in 2010). She was appointed as a lecturer in the department of Chemistry at Imperial in 2012, promoted to a Readership in 2016 and to Professorship in 2023. Her current research is focused on elucidation of biologically relevant processes using different types of fluorescence imaging and time-resolved spectroscopy.

Prof. Hermant Pandit

Prof Hemant Pandit is Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at University of Leeds. He is Head of his School (Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine) and Deputy Dean of Faculty of Medicine and Health at University of Leeds. He leads a multi-disciplinary group of 20 researchers and support staff. He is an invited member of American Knee Society and European Knee Society and has published more than 430 papers and 50 book chapters.

Hemant's main research interests are in translational and applied research in various aspects of hip and knee osteoarthritis. He holds two patents (implantable sensors) and has conducted a variety of research in the field of wearable and implantable sensors and remote patient monitoring. In addition, he is well recognised for his research in risks and management of peri-prosthetic fractures, pseudotumours associated with metal-on-metal hips and unicompartmental knee arthroplasty.

Dr. Sally Peyman

Dr. Sally A. Peyman is an Associate Professor at Heriot-Watt University within the Institute of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Bioengineering. Her research focuses on microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip technologies for biomedical applications, integrating the fields of biophysics, bioengineering, and medicine. She is particularly interested in modelling human diseases using bespoke organ-on-chip devices, with an emphasis on recreating the microenvironment of solid tumours to enhance the testing of new cancer therapeutics. Her additional research interests include microbubble-assisted drug delivery, single-cell analysis, and clinical diagnostics.