Description
This one-day event with specialists in photodynamic therapy (PDT) will provide you with an insight into the science and progress of this revolutionary treatment, and review future research and trends.
You will have the opportunity to network with scientists and clinicians engaged in, or interested in, PDT and PD.
To be involved in this discussion, book your place today.
topics covered
The scientific basis of PDT and its application in a range of conditions including local infection, surgical site infections, and some common cancers like skin, lung and head and neck cancers.
The benefits of PDT in clinical practice
The difference and similarities between photodiagnosis (PD) and photodynamic therapy (PDT)
key speakers
Professor Keyvan Moghissi, Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Clinical Director, Yorkshire Laser Centre. Professor Moghissi is recognised as one of the UK’s leading Cardiothoracic Surgeons and pioneering experts in PDT.
Professor Mark Wainwright, Professor of Chemistry, Liverpool John Moores University
Professor Wainwright has worked on the application of photoantimicrobials for 25 years.
Dr Nicolas Loebel, Chief Technology Officer and President, Ondine Biomedical Inc, Canada. Dr Loebel specialises in product research and development, photochemistry and system integration.
rates
RSM members £15 – £65
Non-members £25 – £80
*Tickets include tea, coffee and lunch.
* Following registration you will be contacted appropriately by email with; your booking confirmation, feedback survey and attendance certificate. For full details of the RSM privacy policy, click here
* Programme subject to change
Please contact Mrs Kate Dixon, Yorkshire Laser Centre for any queries relating to the programme or sponsors: kdixon@yorkshirelasercentre.org
agenda
09.30 am
Registration, tea and coffee
10.00 am
Welcome and introduction
Professor Keyvan Moghissi, Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Clinical Director, Yorkshire Laser Centre
Session 1 – PDT Science
Heinrich Walt and Alison Curnow
10.05 am
PDT Mechanism of Action
Professor Alison Curnow, Associate Professor in Science & Scholarship, University of Exeter Medical School
10.25 am
Light sources in PDT
Dr Ewan Eadie, Head of Scientific Services for Photobiology and Optical Radiation, Ninewells Hospital Dundee
10.40 am
Immunological aspects of PDT
Professor Heinrich Walt, Group Leader, Oral Oncology Research, University Hospital Zurich and Professor Caroline Maake, Adjunct Professor, University of Zurich
11.05 am
Panel discussion
11.05 am
Tea and coffee break
11.10 am
PDT in Europe and role of EPPM
Professor Gilles Gasser, Principal Investigator, Chimie ParisTech
Role of PDT in antimicrobial and local infection
Mark Wainwright and Colin Hopper
11.30 am
MBDs – edging towards the Clinic!
Professor Mark Wainwright, Professor of Chemistry, Liverpool John Moores University
11.50 am
TBC
Dr Nick Loebel
12.10 pm
Potentiation of antimicrobial photodynamic inactivation by inorganic salts
Professor Mike Hamblin, Principal Investigator, The Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital
12.30 pm
Where to next and panel discussion
Keyvan Moghissi
12.45 pm
Experimental results on PDT for remodelling the myocardium
Dr Robert Bell, Senior Clinical Research Associate, UCL
1.00 pm
Lunch
PDT and Dermatology
Ernest Allen and Sally Ibbotson
2.00 pm
Introduction and ambulatory PDT in Dermatology
Sally Ibbotson
2.20 pm
PDT in non-oncological skin lesions
Yolanda Gilaberte
2.40 pm
PDT in vascular skin lesions
Zheng Huang
3.00 pm
Case presentation of folliculitis decalvans
Ernest Allan
3.10 pm
Tea and coffee break
PDT Oncology
Colin Hopper and Keyvan Moghissi
3.30 pm
PDT in oncology and PD/PDT in aero-digestive tract
Keyvan Moghissi
3.50 pm
Research in progress – PD/PDT in lung cancer
Ricky Thakrar
4.00 pm
Theranostic silica nanoparticles for targeted flourescent imaging and PDT of colorectal cancer
Yazan Khalad
4.10 pm
Panel discussion
4.15 pm
PDT in prostate-urology
Mark Emberton
4.35 pm
PD/PDT in head and neck and maxi-facial
Colin Hopper
4.55 om
Closing remarks and evaluation forms
Keyvan Moghissi