UK MMSG Loughborough 2008

The meeting took place at Loughborough University, from Monday 15th to Friday 19th September 2008, as part of the UK Mathematics-in-Medicine Study Groups series.

Problems

Multiscale modelling of bioreactors for growing bone tissue: Mr Norazharuddin Abdullah (Engineering Science, University of Oxford); Dr Diganta Das (Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University)
Anti-receptor antibodies: Is it better to displace the dummy ligand?: Dr Mark Penney (Clinical Pharmacology, AstraZeneca)
Mechanical and thermal damage accumulation and recovery in cell and tissue products: Dr. Yang Liu (Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University); Prof David Williams (Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University)
Solid–fluid interaction in force and energy transmission in shaken baby syndrome: Dr Donal McNally (Institute of Biomechanics, University of Nottingham)
Modelling of the growth of engineered orthopaedic tissue in zero force and variable load environments: Dr Nikolay Nikolaev (Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University); Mr Henk Versteeg (Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University); Prof David Williams (Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University)

Financial support for the meeting was received from the EPSRC, in the form of grant number EP/G020450/1.