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Light Saving Lungs

Light Saving Lungs

FromA Little Light Listening


Light Saving Lungs

FromA Little Light Listening

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Length:
35 minutes
Released:
Oct 20, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The title of our podcast is Light Saving Lungs where will discuss how the use of a light is helping doctors to understand how the lungs of premature babies are functioning in way that can be done using a harmless light source, can be continuously so you can keep an eye on this at all times and which can help ultimately bring better outcomes for these babies futures. The technique this is all based on is as in Scattering Media Absorption Spectroscopy (GASMAS) and in this podcast we learn more about this novel technique. 
The guests in this podcast are Prof Stefan Anderson-Engels and Hanna Sjöström. 
Prof. Andersson-Engels hails from Helsinburg Sweden. He received his M.Sc in 1985 and his Ph.D. in 1990 both from Lund. Stefan is an award-winning, world-leading researcher who manages a research group of about 40 members, roughly half or which are postdocs and senior researchers and the other half are postgraduate students. Stefan came to Ireland in 2016 after you were awarded an SFI Professorship and came to IPIC at Tyndall at UCC and now leads a number of international collaborations with universities, clinicians and industry partners including Rockley Photonics and GPX Medical. Stefan has been awarded the SKAPA award, the most prestigious entrepreneurship award in Sweden; as well as the “Lindbomska belöningen” from the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences.
Hanna Sjöström is the CEO GPX Medical AB and a Board member Alteco Medical AB. Masters of Business Administration, Technology Management and Marketing in 2005 and an executive MBA in Leadership in 2018. Hanna has worked for some of the leading companies in the world including L`Oreal, Coca-Cola, TePe oral hygiene Global Marketing Director before leaving to become the founder and CEO of GPX Medical develops medical device for improving the care and life quality of our most vulnerable patients – preterm born infant
Released:
Oct 20, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (5)

A Little Light Listening is a new podcast by IPIC where we cover the latest developments in light-based science and technology. This regular podcast features STEM and non-STEM experts from Ireland and around the world. We explore a broad range of technology areas including how light is used in medicine, space and communications.