Mike Raxworthy is a biomedical scientist and holds a PhD from the University of Leeds, UK. He has over 30 years’ experience leading R&D in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries, having had his first involvement with tissue engineering in 1996. He holds an MBA from Warwick Business School and is the founder and CEO of Neotherix Ltd, a medical technology (MedTech) company based in York, UK and spun-out from Smith & Nephew to focus on bioresorbable regenerative scaffolds for tissue repair. Mike combines Neotherix responsibilities with those of Operations Director of Regener8 – the UK Regenerative Devices community – and he is also a member of the Medical Technologies Innovation team at the Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering based at the University of Leeds. He was a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor in Medical Technology Innovation and Translation at the University of Leeds from 2015-2018 with the role subsequently adopted by the University of Leeds.Mike’s background has provided an understanding of the workings of large and micro companies as well as extensive experience of the public sector through business engagement and education roles at Leeds.

Isaac Kiiza Tibasiima teaches in the Department of Literature, Makerere University and is a Fellow of the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (FAHP). His research interests include Folklore research, Performance Theory, Postcolonial Theory and Nationalism Studies. His current research focuses on contemporary song performance as a site of reinventing and reconstructing traditional performance. In light of this, he sees competition music performance as a construction and negotiation of different identities within the Ugandan nation. He is also involved in projects working with international and plural identities and translating folklore forms into film. At Makerere, he teaches courses in American Literature, Stylistics of Literature, Literary Communication Studies and Folklore/Oral Literature Studies.