James Phillips

Chairperson
University College London, Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering Department, UK

Biography

James Phillips is Professor of Regenerative Medicine at University College London in the United Kingdom. He is Co-Director of the UCL Centre for Nerve Engineering and leads a multidisciplinary translational research programme focussed on understanding and repairing nervous system damage.

 

Methods include computational, in vitro, in vivo and clinical research to develop new technologies for nervous system regenerative medicine. Approaches can involve the use of cell, drug, gene, biologic and biomaterial therapies and the construction of living artificial nervous system tissues as advanced therapies and in vitro models.