A short summary of the key speakers and activities of the first Sensors in Medicine Conference which was held in London in March 2013

1. Wellcome Collection
London
6-7 March
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THE CONFERENCE
Sensors in Medicine 2013 was held on 6-7 March 2013 at the
Wellcome Collection in London
The Conference objectives were to:
 Bring together the academic and business communities with a
common interest in healthcare applications of sensors
 Showcase innovative commercial applications of sensors in
medicine
 Explore leading edge research in sensor technology applicable
to healthcare

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THE COMMITTEE
Dr. Michael Brand
Captum Capital
Limited
Dr. Stuart Hendry
Sphere Medical
Limited
Dr. Danny O’Hare
Imperial College,
London

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THE VENUE: THE WELLCOME COLLECTION
The Wellcome Collection houses over 1 million objects
relating to medicine and health collected by the late Henry
Wellcome, co-founder of the pharmaceutical company
Burroughs-Wellcome.
Open to the “incredibly curious”, the Collection explores
the connections between medicine, life and art in the past,
present and future.

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THE 2013 PROGRAM
Wednesday 6th March
 Point of Care Diagnostics
 Future Technology
 Reception
Thursday 7th March
 Breath Analysis
 Wearable Sensors
 Panel Discussion

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ENABLING POINT OF CARE DIAGNOSTICS WITH
SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGIES
Dr. Paru Deshpande
Program Director
Life Science
Technologies
IMEC, Belgium

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THE NEXT GENERATION OF POINT OF CARE
SENSORS FOR INTENSIVE CARE
Dr. Shaw Fox
VP Product Development
Sphere Medical Limited
UK

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SENSORS IN HEALTHCARE:
OPPORTUNITIES AND SUCCESS FACTORS
Proportion of GDP spent on healthcare is
growing and will continue to do so
Technology alone cannot guarantee
success
New sensor technologies will not
succeed alone, innovation also needs to
win on cost and other features
Existing sensor applications could
become or remain successful if the
context of their application is considered
as part of a greater care pathwayDr. John Rippeth
Principal Consultant in
Technology and Innovation
PA Consulting
UK

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MINIMALLY INVASIVE SENSORS FOR
PERSONALISED THERAPY
Professor Tony Cass
Dept of Chemistry &
Institute for Biomedical
Engineering
Imperial College, London
UK

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NEW APPROACHES TO PROBING HOST-
PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS
Dr. Danny O’Hare
Department of Bioengineering
Imperial College, London
UK

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Non-fluorescent precursors
Strongly fluorescent Cy3
λem = 570 nm
PNA1 PNA2
DNA or RNA
Dr. Sylvain Ladame
Lecturer in Biosensor
Development
Dept of Bioengineering
Imperial College, London
UK
OLIGONUCLEOTIDE-TEMPLATED FLUOROGENIC
REACTIONS:
A POWERFUL TOOL FOR BIOSENSING APPLICATIONS

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LABEL-FREE NANOMECHANICAL DETECTION OF
BIOMARKERS WITH A HOME-MADE OPTICAL-
READOUT SYSTEM
Dr. Zhugen Yang
Dept of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
UK

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MICROFLUIDIC BASED SENSOR SYSTEMS –
REAL TIME DETECTION OF TISSUE FAILURE IN
THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
Professor Martyn Boutelle
Professor of Biomedical
Sensors Engineering
Dept of Bioengineering
Imperial College, London
UK

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SIMILIA-SIMILIBUS, OR HOW HOMOLOGOUS
GENES SENSE EACH OTHER FROM A DISTANCE
Professor Alexei Kornyshev
Dept of Chemistry
Imperial College, London
UK
Cortini R, Kornyshev AA, Lee DJ, Leikin S.
Electrostatic braiding and homologous pairing of DNA
double helices. Biophys J. 2011;101(4):875-84.

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THE RECEPTION
Conference Cocktail:
The Gimlet
• 60 ml Sacred Gin
• 10 ml lime juice
• 10 ml agave syrup
• ice
Keynote speakers from Imperial
College: (l to r)
Prof Boutelle; Prof Cass;
Prof Kornyshev; Dr. O’Hare
Wellcome Collection
Medicine Now Gallery
Delegates enjoy networking

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CLINICAL BREATH ANALYSIS: PAST PRESENT
AND FUTURE – A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE
Professor Emeritus
Terence Risby
Johns Hopkins University
Maryland USA

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BREATH ANALYSIS: CLINICAL RESEARCH TO
THE END-USER MARKET
Trevor Smith
Managing Director
Bedfont Scientific Ltd
UK

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THE BREATH PRINT OF GASTRIC CANCER
A NANO-MEDICAL ARTIFICIAL OLFACTORY SYSTEM FOR
DETECTING VOLATILE BIOMARKERS OF CANCER
Dr. Yoav Y Broza
The Department of
Chemical Engineering
and The Russell Berrie
Nanotechnology
Institute
Technion- Israel Institute
of Technology
Israel

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BREATH ANALYSIS: AN EFFECTIVE POINT OF
CARE DIAGNOSTIC FOR RESPIRATORY DISEASE
Dr. Victor Higgs
Managing Director
Applied Nanodetectors Ltd
UK

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FROM MANAGING ILLNESS TO MANAGING
HEALTH: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR WEARABLE
SENSORS
Professor Chris van Hoof
Program Director
Wearable Healthcare
(HUMAN++) and Director
Body Area Networks
Imec
Belgium

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TEXTILES WITH ELECTRONIC FUNCTIONALITY
Professor Tilak Dias
Advanced Textiles Research Group
School of Art and Design
Nottingham Trent University
UK

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PANEL DISCUSSION: THE FUTURE OF SENSORS
IN MEDICINE
Dr. Michael Brand
Sensor100
Dr. Raman Minhas
ATPBio Ltd
Dr. Danny O’Hare
Imperial College
Prof. Chris van Hoof
Imec
Panelists
Technology Year Adopted?
Artificial pancreas 2030
Continuous blood pressure monitor 2021
Lab-on-a-chip disease detection 2020
Breath analysis cancer detection 2019
Nanopore DNA sequencing 2021

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Objectives
 Promote innovative new commercial sensor technology
 Highlight leading academic research near to commercial use
 Provide a platform for emerging sensor companies
 Explore trends in medical applications of sensor technology
 Facilitate formation of partnerships for investment and technology
transfer
Sensors in Medicine 2014

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ABOUT SENSOR 100
 Sensor100 is a global network of people and organisations
active in research, development and commercialisation of bio-
sensors and chemo-sensors
 The primary objective of Sensor100 is to facilitate the transfer of
sensor technology from the lab to commercial use
 The Sensors in Medicine Annual Conference series is organised
by Sensor100
 The free monthly eNewsletter is distributed by email to network
members in over 70 countries worldwide
www.sensor100.com

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