Anti-Waffle Podcast with Dr Chris Smith

07/17/19 • 22 min

In this concise and intriguing podcast, we’re introduced to emerging technologies in biomedical research that offer alternative methods, and which promote the 3Rs of animal testing: Replace, Reduce, Refine. Recent Post Grad Dr Chris Smith talks about his experiments in 3D Organotypic Modelling (manufacturing human tissue) – of both skin and gum tissue, testing their differences in wound healing. We learn about what his findings could mean for improving surgery and other wound recovery times, and hear about other technological developments, such as the Organ-on-a-chip that ‘looks like the future’ of biomedical experimentation.

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The hidden 1 billion. Despite being 15% of the world’s population; where one in every four households in the world has a person with a significant enough disability for it to make a difference to their everyday life, people with disabilities often remain marginalised, invisible, and the last in line when it comes to international development or global health or human rights efforts. But things are changing - with some help from Professor Nora Groce and colleagues at the Disability Research Centre at UCL. In this episode we hear about efforts to include disability in the Sustainable Development Goals, and about Nora’s part in the development of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The question is; ‘what is the everyday experience for people living with a disability in their local environment? And what could be achieved if instead of expecting people with a disability to adapt to the world as it is, we considered how we can adapt the things we do, to be inclusive for people with disabilities?’