concepts & innovation in cavitation and sonoptic sciences
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Campbell CICASS Group, Carnegie Physics Laboratory, University of Dundee, Ewing Building 0-7, Dundee DD1 4HN. tel: 01382 384404
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The CICaSS Group enjoy an active and ever- expanding role with Public Engagement and
Outreach activities, including exciting interactions with schools and the public at large.
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Previously (June '08), PC gave the British
Association CREST Researcher in Residence

Lecture to an audience of several hundred
school children. CREST (CREativity in Science
and Technology) is a UK-wide Science,
Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM)
award scheme managed by the BA (British
Association for the Advancement of Science).
Through CREST, young people aged 11-19
explore the real nature of STEM by doing their
own creative mini project challenges.
(right) PC presents a CREST Award to the
team from Glasgow Academy.
At present, we have a range of summer interns with the group, including 4 French students
researching on some exotic possibilities for photo-therapy, as well as with our polymer delivery
agent concept also.  
Moreover, a new program of school-directed activities, co-ordinated with the assistance of the
IoP, and with the aim of facilitating and hosting
Advanced Higher Physics Projects here at the
University, is being launched in the very near future. This follows the incredible success of Megan
Griffiths' AH Project from 2008.
More
PC outlined some personal views and experiences on how
getting the right molecules to the right anatomical target, and
at the right time, is
the critical problem in drug delivery today.  

The talk was attended by around 30 members of the public,
and the ensuing Q & A lasted over 35 minutes, covering such
interesting and involved topics as cancer gene therapy,
biomimetics, and the ethics and policy-making procedures
involved in drug delivery testing in
in vivo and clinical scenarios.
PC talks up 'Sexy BioPhysics' at
Starbucks [June 2009}
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Most recently, Paul Campbell gave a talk to the general public
as part of the Cafe Science series:
Sexy Biophysics:
Exploiting Ultrasound for Gene Therapy.