The Auckland Bioengineering Institute is proud to host Professor Damien Lacroix, Deputy Director of the Insigneo Institute for in silico Medicine at the University of Sheffield, UK, for 2 weeks in July on a Hood Fellowship. Established in 2012, Insigneo has built a strong multidisciplinary network of 280 academics, researchers and clinicians who bring together expertise in biomedical imaging, healthcare data, computational modelling, and digital healthcare technologies.
The traditional approach to medicine is to treat all patients in the same manner: if you have a femoral neck fracture then you will receive a prosthesis with a standardized shape; if you have a cardiovascular accident, then let's unblock your arteries with the installation of a stent. And yet we are all different. We each have different physiology and therefore the solutions to our problems should be specific for each one of us.
With the development of personalized digital models of the human body, we are moving towards a future where we will be able to account for the specificities of each individual to prevent and treat diseases such as osteoarthritis, disc herniation, femur fracture, heart attack, diabetes or Alzheimer's to name just a few.
During this talk we will present new technologies that will be able to integrate the complexity of the human body and prevent and cure the diseases of more and more people all over the world in the next 20 years.
16.30 - 17.15 drinks & nibbles
17.15 - 18.15 lecture
