Congratulations to Dr Shiva Akbarzadeh for Technologist Award!

Congratulations to Dr Shiva Akbarzadeh (seen here on the left with ISCT president Catherine Bollard), who won the Technologist Award for her presentation titled "CEA as an Adjunct Treatment for Major Burns: A Phase I Study".

This talk was given at the International Society for Cellular Therapy, Annual meeting London 2017. Shiva described a Phase I clinical trial outcomes on Cultured epidermal sheet autografts (CEA) on a fibrin carrier that was carried out at the Alfred 2013-2016.


Reference:
S. Akbarzadeh, M. Paul, M. Herson, C. Lo, H. Cleland. CEA as an adjunct treatment for major burns: A phase I study. Cytotherapy: The Journal of Cell Therapy.  May 2017 Volume 19, Issue 5, Supplement, Pages S26–S27

See more about Shiva's research at:

• Monash University Department of Surgery Skin Tissue Culture Laboratory
• Video describing tissue engineering for burns treatment