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The Machine Metaphor - MIMIT™ Seminar Series

Professor McGrouther is the Professor of Plastic and Reconsructive Surgery at the University of Manchester. His research interests include scars, keloids, tendon repair, tissue engineering and the influence of mechanical forces on healing. He is listed as one of the top ten surgeons in the UK.

Gus has developed a large laboratory activity, recruiting the Blond McIndoe Research group and Professor Giorgio Terenghi with whom he jointly supervises several fields of tissue repair research relevant to reconstructive surgery. Gus provides a national ‘research hub’ acting as mentor or adviser for Reconstructive Surgery research fellows at many centres; Stoke Mandeville Burns and Plastic Surgery Research Trust, University of Oxford, UCL. He is active in fund raising and research direction for numerous national charities.

He was recently nominated as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and holds a personal research merit award from the Royal Society. HRH Philip, Duke of Edinburgh attended his public lectures, 1989, 1995 and 2002. He has delivered numerous public lectures and acted as a media spokesman on issues such as ‘Disfigurement-The Last Bastion of Discrimination.

As predicted, both the speaker and topic were extremely popular with the number of attendees reflecting this.  We very much hope Professor McGrouther will be back as guest speaker in the future.

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