Transplant Research Evening - Community Engagement

Join us for an evening with transplant doctors and academics to hear about their research and have your say on how the work should be done!
About this Event

Join Us for the Transplant Research Evening!

Get ready for an exciting in-person event all about heart transplant and heart regeneration research with the teams from the University of Cambridge and the Royal Papworth Hospital. The event will involve a series of short talks by academics and doctors. We will also have a transplant recipient sharing their story of receiving a heart, and a family member of an organ donor speaking of their experience of going through the organ donation process with their loved one.

We also want to hear what you have to say about this research! We will break into small groups where we encourage people to share their opinions about this work and have the chance to voice what they want done and how they want it done. We are here to listen to you, just as much as we are here to speak to you.

Dinner will be provided and all the speakers and facilitators will be around for further discussions throughout the event.

Agenda

🕑: 06:00 PM - 06:20 PM
Introduction & Welcome
🕑: 06:20 PM - 06:40 PM
Transplantation - A Lived Experience

Info: This will include two short talks from people on both sides of transplantation. The first talk will be from a family member of someone who was an organ donor. The second talk will be from a heart transplant recipient.

🕑: 06:40 PM - 07:20 PM
Repair Not Replace

Info: This will include 4 short-talks by world leading academics in transplantation and organ regeneration. Hear what they have to say about what the medicine of the future looks like and the exciting new developments taking place right now

🕑: 07:20 PM - 08:00 PM
Dinner & Meet the team

Info: Dinner will be provided. Get the chance to meet other people interested in this work and the research teams from the University of Cambridge and the transplant team from the Royal Papworth Hospital & Addenbrookes Hospital

🕑: 08:00 PM - 08:45 PM
Workshop & Small Group Discussions

Info: This is the part of the evening where we are interested in what you have to say! We will break out into small groups and have discussions with a member of the team and other people at the event. We want to hear what you have to say and what to improve the way in which we carry out our research going forward.

🕑: 08:45 PM - 09:00 PM
Closing Remarks