Upcoming Events for 2013

4th Asia-Pacific Nanobionics Symposium 

The Woodward Conference Centre, Level 10, Melbourne Law School, 185 Pelham Street, Melbourne

The merging of biology and electronics using the most recent advances in nanotechnology promises to revolutionise medical bionics. The potential implications for health and medical research and the increased quality of life for patients are highly significant. 
To achieve such goals there is a need to bring together clinicians, scientists, engineers and mathematicians in a collaborative environment. 
The purpose of this symposium is to provide that forum.

Key speakers include: 

• Associate Professor Mario Romero-Ortega, University of Texas at Arlington, USA) 
• Dr Christine Kranz, University of Ulm, Germany
• Associate Professor Michael Coote, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital / University of Melbourne, Australia
• Professor Seon Jeong Kim, Hanyang University, Korea
• Professor Peter (Chung-Yu) Wu, President’s Office, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
• Professor Stan Skafidas, Centre for Neural Engineering (CfNE), University of Melbourne
• Professor George Malliaras, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Mines, CMP-EMSE, MOC, France

To nominate to present an 8-minute 'burster" talk on a hot topic, send a 200-word abstract to Phil Smugreski before July 31, 2013.

Register to attend

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2013 Bill Wheeler Symposium

Leon Kane-Maguire Theatre, AIIM Facility, Innovation Campus, North Wollongong 


Time: 5.00pm-6.30pm

• Professor Jeremy Crook: Stem Cells for Bionics 
• Professor Gordon Wallace: 3D printing with living cells 
• Plus the 2013 Bill Wheeler Award winner 

Download an invitation here.

Your donations will help get our students into internationally acclaimed labs and accelerate our progress.

For more information on donating to the Bill Wheeler Award fund, please email Karla Peacock at UOW or phone 02 4221 3127.

ACES Full Centre Meeting

University of Tasmania, Life Science Theatre, Room 106, Sandy Bay Campus

Communication and Collaboration - The Skills you must acquire

Annual meeting and ethics workshop for ACES members. This year's event will be hosted by the University of Tasmania (ACES Ethics Program).
For information and a program for the 2013 ACES Full Centre Meeting, please contact Dr Toni Campbell.

IPRI / ACES Community Open Day

Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, AIIM Facility, Innovation Campus, Squires Way, North Wollongong 

Time: 3.00pm

Take a look at the ground-breaking research into materials, energy and bionics aided by 3D printing with a tour of the state-of-the-art labs at the University of Wollongong Intelligent Polymer Research Institute (IPRI) and the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF) Materials Node.

The lab tours will be held in conjunction with the annual Bill Wheeler Symposium (listed above).

Email Karla Peacock or phone 02 4221 3127 to register for a lab tour.

2013 AdBioFab Melbourne Conference

St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne 

Time: 1.00-4.00PM

The conference will focus on how biomaterials research and additive fabrication are converging to deliver innovative solutions for new medical technologies.

These will reduce technical development time and costs. AdBioFab brings together clinicians, business strategists, technologists and researchers and should also be of interest to investors and policy makers.

The combination of nanomaterials science, high-speed data communications and additive manufacturing represent a potentially highly disruptive transformation of medical treatments and technologies.

Transformation of this kind will bring both challenges and risks. It will lead to new businesses being created and new ways of thinking about medical treatment. Understanding policy will be critical and providing guidance to policy makers about how to adapt regulatory regimes will be extremely important.

The conference goal is to accelerate early stage medical technology development and help researchers and entrepreneurs understand how to make them investment ready.  

This conference is an opportunity for anyone interested in the immediate future of medical treatment and technologies.

It will take place at St Vincent’s Hospital, where the Aikenhead Centre For Medical Discovery will be located, and will provide a hub for innovative medical research in Victoria over the coming years.

The conference will also mark the unveiling of a newly created additive biofabrication unit at St Vincent’s hospital, which will push forward research and development of medical bionics devices, nerve, muscle and bone regeneration as well as epilepsy detection and control.

The AdBioFab facility will enable clinicians to see first-hand the opportunities that advances in materials science and fabrication are bringing to medical science

This conference will provide networking and business development opportunities.

Register today to attend the conference. 

View the conference program.