Inaugural Lecture - Professor Lyle Armstrong
This lecture will take place on campus, in Lecture Theatre 002, Business & Law Building, City Campus East (full address at the bottom of the page). Refreshments will be served from 4.30pm outside of the lecture theatre. The lecture will also be available to stream online - please register for the event and a link will be sent to you to access the live stream.
Stem cells and the Future of Medicine?
In a fascinating lecture Professor Lyle Armstrong will argue
that current methods of identifying new medical entities, such as small
molecules, are not delivering the advances in treatments of disease compared to
the enormous investments made in these technologies by the pharmaceutical
industry.
He will describe a brief history of stem cells: what they
are, whence they came, and how they might contribute to the development of new
medicines based on cells or biological molecules rather than the types of chemical
structures traditionally pursued as novel drugs.
About the Speaker
Professor Lyle Armstrong is Professor of Cellular Reprogramming at
Newcastle University and a Visiting Professor at Northumbria University. The
aim of his research is to understand how both adult and embryonic stem cells
differentiate into given cell types and what mechanism maintains the
differentiated states (cellular memory).
His work involves building on the
knowledge of epigenetics to devise strategies for ‘reprogramming’ human somatic
cells towards a stem cell like phenotype. The goal is to use these cell for
regenerative therapy without the logistical and ethical problems associated
with ‘therapeutic cloning’ in humans.
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