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We host a regular seminar series, providing the opportunity to hear from members of our BRC community across our five research themes, with representation across a variety of career stages, ranging from our Senior Investigator Fellows to PhD students.
We hold regular seminars for colleagues across our partnership and additionally for patients and the public, keeping people at the heart of our research.
Format
One hour seminars, followed by a networking lunch for those attending in-person, are delivered in a hybrid format to help ensure equity of access. We would encourage in-person attendance where possible to make the most of the networking opportunity.
The in-person location will rotate between Streatham (LSI), St Lukes (South Cloisters) and the RILD for fairness across all research groups.
Find the details of upcoming seminars and book your free space below.
Upcoming Seminar
Welcome to our next exciting seminar featuring the distinguished Professors Clemens Becker, Jochen Klenk & Luca Palmerini. Join us at South Cloisters 2.13 on the University of Exeter St Luke’s Campus for an insightful talk titled ‘Digital Mobility Outcomes development in Mobilise-D: problems and shortcomings‘
The IMI consortium Mobilise-D was built in 2018-2019 and selected by the European Commission to develop digital endpoints to accurately assess physical mobility and walking in particular. The original call hypothesized that gait speed – if measured properly – could be used as an endpoint for pharmacological intervention studies. The six working groups including several hundred researchers and staff started in April 2019 first in a technical validation study. This was followed by clinical validation study of four cohorts representing differing conditions that cause major burden of disease. The consortium was a public and private partnership involving academic institutions and industrial partners. The consortium delivered and will deliver a lot of exciting results. The principles of open source and open science were secured. However, as with most complex projects many challenges remain. The seminar will dive into some planning errors, failures and missed opportunities. These can be fixed and they are likely to be fixed. The three presenters cover a broad range of knowledge including clinical expertise, epidemiology, engineering and trial design.
Guest Speaker Bios
Clemens Becker is a geriatrician and clinical scientist working at the University Clinic in Heidelberg, Germany. He is leading the Unit Digital Medicine for older persons. In this working group the interdisciplinary team is mostly developing and validating wearable technology and apps to address physical mobility, (in-)activity and falls-/fall related injuries. Until June 2024 he was the clinical lead of the Mobilise-D consortium to validate digital mobility outcomes in different patient groups (https://www.mobilise-d.eu/). Currently, all groups involved in Mobilise-D are busy analysing and publishing the results of the largest global initiative to develop robust endpoints for clinical trials and clinical use.
Jochen Klenk is Professor for health sciences and head of department at the IB University for Health and Social Sciences and a senior researcher at the RBMF Stuttgart and at the Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry at Ulm University. His background is medical engineering and epidemiology. His main research activities cover the factors and conditions of healthy aging focusing on physical activity and falls risk. Furthermore, he works on sensor-based assessments and longitudinal data analysis of individualized risk profiles (e.g. Mobilise-D project).
Luca Palmerini is an adjunct professor in biomedical engineering at the University of Bologna. He teaches the course “Laboratory of wearables and mobile health” for the master degree in Biomedical Engineering. His main research interests are in the application of machine learning and signal processing to data from wearable sensors to detect and predict adverse events such as falls in the elderly and to quantify motor impairments in neurological disorders. The main projects he is currently involved in are the Mobilise-D project and the DARE project.
Upcoming Seminar
Date: 12th November 2024
Time: 12:00 – 13:30
Speakers: TBC
Location: St Lukes TBC
Join us for the our next seminar series and hear from some of our exceptional researchers. Stay on for a networking lunch (13:00-13:30); the perfect opportunity to stimulate collaboration and foster connections.