Professor Anthony Metcalfe
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Bio
Professor Anthony Metcalfe is Industrial Chair of Wound Healing in the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Biology. Tony is a Biochemist (BSc) and Molecular Geneticist (PhD) and has many years of experience in academic, clinical, not-for-profit, and small to medium Biotech sectors in a range of therapeutic areas. Tony has interdisciplinary experience in innovative discovery, R&D, translational medicine and has regulatory, commercialisation and fund-raising expertise with a patient focussed outlook.
Tony’s research has characterised wound healing and scar reduction, programmed cell death mechanisms in mammary gland biology & pre-implantation development, techniques for creating novel skin substitutes, delivery mechanisms for skin cells and stem cells, as well as engineering bispecific antibodies as a therapy for various cancers. Tony also helped raise funds and develop technologies at two spin-out companies which are or have investigated scar reduction technologies from proof-of-concept lab-based studies through to Phase I – III clinical trials. Tony is currently part of a team developing scar reduction strategies and therapies for skin and ocular applications at The Healthcare Technologies Institute in Birmingham.
Tony has published widely and is a member of the editorial boards of The Frontiers in Surgery: Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery and of Materials in Medicine: Journal of Materials Science.
