In his talk Chris, a plastic surgeon by training, outlined his PhD work which he undertook with Bruno Péault and Mark Bradley in Edinburgh on developing materials strategies to isolate, grow and differentiate adipose derived stem cells (here specifically pericytes) into cartilage, with the aim to help reconstruct e.g. outer ear structure.
More about Dr Chris West: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christopher_West
Papers so far (3.15) on this: Duffy et al. Biomater. Sci., 2014,2: 1683 (10.1039/C4BM00112E) polymer microarray
Prof Mark Bradley: http://www.chem.ed.ac.uk/staff/academic-staff/professor-mark-bradleyProf Bruno Péault: http://www.crm.ed.ac.uk/research/group/tissue-development-regeneration-and-repair
This was drawn during the GLORI meeting in Glasgow 26.3.2015 (http://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/biology/research/cellengineering/glori/).