ProfessorSara Rankin

Outreach and Public Engagement Activities
As NHLI's Divisional Lead for Outreach, Prof. Sara Rankin is involved in a variety of public engagement and outreach activities. She runs regular stem cell workshops for pupils and teachers, participates in public debates, has been interviewed by the BBC and has collaborated with artist Gina Czarnecki as the lead scientist in the Sci-Art project, Wasted, exhibited in 2011 and in Palaces, exhibited in 2011-2012, with ample media coverage.

More information about Prof. Sara Rankin 's Public Engagement and Outreach activities can be found here.

National and International Conferences
March 2014: (Chair) Trauma and Blast Inflammation, Postgraduate Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.

May 2013: PhD training programme and research seminar, Bellinzona, Switzerland.

March 2013: Bone Marrow - Birth Place and Grave Yard for Neutrophils. 47th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Phagocyte Workshop, Albufeira, Portugal.

March 2013: How Scientists are Putting the Tooth Fairy Out of Work, Nanyang Technological University, Lee Kong Chian Lecture Theatre, Singapore.

28 Feb 2013: Regenerative Pharmacology: Developing New Therapies to Mobilise Stem Cells from the Bone Marrow. Jointly hosted by LKC Medicine, the British High Commission and the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) at The Matrix, Biopolis, Singapore.

Sept 2012: TERMlS meeting in Vienna.

June 2012: Neutrophils in Immunity, Quebec, Canada.

May 2012: GRC Chemotactic Cytokines, Italy.

March 2012: ERS Lung Stem Cell conference, Estoril.

Dec 2011: Symposium Stem Cells, Pharmacology and Therapeutics. British Pharmacology Society.

Nov 2011: Plenary Lecture at the World Conference on Regenerative Medicine, Leipzig, Germany.

Feb 2011: SMi conference.

May 2011: German Cardiovascular Society, Venice, Italy.

Invited Talks
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Feb 2014: Pharmacological Strategies to Mobilize Stem Cells from Bone Marrow. British Society of Immunology NE group at Newscastle University.

April 2013: Geoff West Annual Pharmacology Lecture, School of Health, Sport and Bioscience, University of East London.

March 2013: Manchester University.

July 2012: Body heal thyself, Imperial College London.

April 2011: Cardiovascular Centre, Edinburgh.

March 2011: Biomedical Sciences, Cardiff- British Society of Immunology. Regional seminar series.

Feb 2011: Pharmacy and Pharmacology Dept, Bath.

Jan 2011: Haematology Dept, Imperial College.

March 2010: Tissue Engineering Institute, Porto, Portugal.

March 2010: Novartis, Horsham, UK.

Feb 2010: Stem Cell Club, Birmingham.

Feb 2010: Genes, Development and Disease. Theme Seminar at UCL-ICH, London.

Current Research
Professor Sara Rankin is the Head of the Regenerative Pharmacology group at NHLI, Respiratory Sciences.

You can read more about the group's current research here.