Speaker: Professor James Kirkpatrick 

Professor Kirkpatrick has a triple doctorate in science and medicine (MD, PhD, DSc) from the Queen's University of Belfast (N. Ireland) and is Emeritus Professor of Pathology at the University Medical Centre in Mainz, Germany. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath), London, and has both honorary and visiting professorships in China, Singapore and Sweden.

His principal research interests are in the fields of biomaterials in regenerative medicine, with special focus on human co-culture systems. During the past years his work has focussed on bone vascularization, as well as co-culture models for respiratory tract regeneration.

Professor Kirkpatrick is a visitor to the Department of Materials Science under the Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers' new distinguished visiting fellow scheme.