Professor Martin A Birchall, Professor of Laryngology, The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear hospital, London
Surgeons, stem cells and regenerative medicine
Date/Time: 13th November 2009, 17:30
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Friday 13th November 2009 – 5.30pm
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Professor Martin Birchall graduated from Cambridge University in 1984 and is currently professor of Laryngology at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear hospital. His previous appointments have included the Chair of Head and Neck Surgery in Liverpool and Bristol. His special interest though is in Head and Neck Surgery and Laryngology.
He leads the largest ENT research group in the UK, focused on developing newer and better treatments for throat diseases. He has authored over 20 papers on a range of subjects relating to his specialty in the last 3 years. Archive Items Archive ItemsA leading innovator in his field he has dedicated his career to finding solutions to the problems faced by people with throat diseases and his work on transplantation, immunology and nerve repair culminated in a pan-European project to tissue-engineer a new windpipe for a Columbian woman, which was much publicised world-wide. In 2008 he was elected President of the Otorhinolaryngological Research Society.