Program of the NDS Away Day 2020

Abstract

NDS Away Day 2020 Programme (Morning)

8:30 – 9:00 Registration / coffee
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome and Introduction by Head of Department – Freddie Hamdy
9:15 – 10:30  Session 1: Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) (Chair: Jon Austyn)
        9:15 – 9:35      Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre – Helen McShane
        9:35 – 9:55      Retinal Gene Therapy - Robert MacLaren
        9:55 – 10:05    Surgical Innovation and Evaluation Theme - Freddie Hamdy
        10:05 – 10:15  Exploring the Frontiers of Big Data science through Oxford Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Study – Regent Lee
        10:15 – 10:30  Life-saving Instruction for Emergences (LIFE): A smartphone and virtual reality (VR) training platform for healthcare workers – Chris Paton

10:30 – 10:50 Departmental photograph
10:50 – 11:10 Coffee and poster viewing

11:10 – 13:00 Session 2: Workplace Culture (Chair: Claire Edwards)
          11:10 – 11:20 Making it Better - Katie Hurst
          11:20 – 11:40 Focus project – continuous improvement in finance – Tim Eden/Val Parke
          11:40 – 12:00 The three why’s of Wellcome’s Bullying and Harassment policy – Anne Taylor (Wellcome Trust)
          12:00 – 13:00 Thriving in a messy world - Mark Bellamy

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch / Poster viewing

NDS Away Day 2020 Programme (Afternoon)

14:00 – 14:15 Annual NDS Staff Awards
14:15 – 15:15 Session 3: Clinical Research (Chair: Alastair Lamb)
          14:15 – 14:30  Oxford University Global Surgery Group: Working Towards Access to Surgery Worldwide – Roba Khundkar
          14:30 – 14:45  SITU NDS – setting up new surgical trials – Michael Douek
          14:45 – 14:55 How to future proof research – lessons learnt from a 20-year enterprise - Pete Holding

          14:55 – 15:05 Ex vivo normothermic perfusion, a novel method to assess pancreases after preservation – Ann Ogbemudia/Julien Branchereau

15:05 – 15:35 Coffee and Poster viewing
15:35 – 16:05 Andrew Bushell Memorial Lecture  'O₂ = Opportunities + Opportunism' – Chris Pugh

16:05 – 16:45 Session 4: Translational Research (Chair: Ian Mills)
          16:05 – 16:15  An investigation into the metabolic profiles of human Tconvs and Tregs identifies divergent metabolic characteristics in effector memory subsets – Hishashi Hashimoto
          16:15 – 16:25 CD8⁺ T cell senescence is a distinct immunological state that identifies long-term renal transplant recipients at increased risk of future malignancy – Matthew Bottomley
          16:25 – 16:35 Recombinant Nidogen-1 Significantly Improves Survival of Hypoxic Human Islets – Daniel Brandhorst
           16:35 – 16:45 What happens when you administer mesenchymal stromal cells during normothermic machine perfusion of porcine kidneys: possible and helpful or not? – Kaithlyn Rozenberg

16:45 – 17:15 Quiz
17:15 – 17:30 Closing remarks by Freddie Hamdy and Away Day Prize Presentation