Building Bridges in Medical Science conference is to be held at St John’s College, Cambridge on March 10th 2017. BBMS17 is a student-organised one day conference which aims to target students and early year researchers across the medical, physical and life sciences. Registration is free.
BBMS brings together scientists from different disciplines, career stages and countries to share cutting-edge biomedical research and develop useful connections with each other. The conference emphasizes why tackling biomedical research and global health challenges needs an interdisciplinary approach.
Speakers include:
Prof David Heymann (Chair of the Health Protection Agency, UK)
Dr Clare Turnbull (Clinical lead at the 100,000 Genomes Project)
Dr Tamar Geiger (Clinical proteomics at Tel Aviv University)
Dr Selina Wray (Alzheimer’s Research UK research fellow, UCL)
Dr Shouleh Nikzad (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech)
Dr Simon Warner (Chief Scientific Officer at Oxitec)
Prof Andrew Hayward (Head of the Department of Infectious Disease
Informatics, Farr Institute, UCL).
There will also be an interactive poster competition, elevator pitches from healthcare startups, and networking sessions.
BBMS brings together scientists from different disciplines, career
stages and countries to share cutting-edge biomedical research and
develop useful connections with each other. The conference emphasizes
why tackling biomedical research and global health challenges needs an
interdisciplinary approach.
Our exciting line-up of speakers for BBMS17 includes:
Prof David Heymann (Chair of the Health Protection Agency, UK)
Dr Clare Turnbull (Clinical lead at the 100,000 Genomes Project)
Dr Tamar Geiger (Clinical proteomics at Tel Aviv University)
Dr Selina Wray (Alzheimer’s Research UK research fellow, UCL)
Dr Shouleh Nikzad (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech)
Dr Simon Warner (Chief Scientific Officer at Oxitec)
Prof Andrew Hayward (Head of the Department of Infectious Disease
Informatics, Farr Institute, UCL).
There will also be an interactive poster competition, elevator pitches
from healthcare startups, and networking sessions.
Join us for an enriching and enlightening day of talks and networking!
