Tal Golesworthy appeared on Manny Masih’s Sunday morning programme on BBC Radio Gloucestershire on 11 December 2011.

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Exstent has been chosen as the winner in the Medical & Healthcare category of The Engineer’s Technology and Innovation Awards 2011. Details of the award and the runners up can be found at The Engineer website.

The PEARS project has won The Engineer’s Medical & Healthcare Award for Technical Innovation. Last Friday Tal Golesworthy and Peter Gibson attended the awards ceremony at The Royal Society in London to receive the award on behalf of the PEARS team. You can download a copy of the article here. You can also read more at The Engineer website.

Just published in Heart is “External aortic root support: NICE guidance” by Tom Treasure, John Pepper, Tal Golesworthy, Raad Mohiaddin and Robert H Anderson. You can download a copy of the article here. You can also visit the Heart website.

You can see the presentation slides here. You can read an article about the event here. You can also visit the TEDxKraków website.

TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. TEDx is a program of local, self-organised events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.

Just published in the Italian Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery is an article by T. Treasure, T. Golesworthy, J. Pepper, F. Ruiz and S. Gallivan called “Prophylactic surgery of the aortic root in Marfan Syndrome: reconsideration of the decision making process in the era of customised external aortic root support”. You can download a copy of the article here. You can also visit the Italian Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery website at http://www.minervamedica.it/en/journals/vascular-endovascular-surgery/index.php

Tal Golesworthy, the inventor of the ExoVasc® and the first recipient of it, celebrates the seventh anniversary of the operation to implant it today. He will be celebrating the anniversary with members of the project team at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has issued full guidance to the NHS in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland on External aortic root support in Marfan syndrome. To read the guidance visit http://guidance.nice.org.uk/IPG394.

On 19 March 2011 Tal Golesworthy and Professor John Pepper were keynote speakers at the Technology in Medicine and Surgery Conference at Imperial College in London. Their paper was called Exovasc™: A pilgrimage of innovation.

The Technology in Medicine & Surgery Conference (TiMS) is a national and pan-disciplinary event. Its ethos is to inspire the next generation of medical innovators and to expose them to the frontiers of medical technology and invention.

TiMS aims to foster a culture of always seeking to improve on the status quo by interdisciplinary collaborations, where students and professionals from various disciplines bring their skills and expertise to the table to solve a common problem. To find out more, visit the TiMS website.

In the 17 January 2011 edition of The Engineer is an article on the development of the ExoVasc®. The article is called “UK engineer develops own life-saving implant” and you can read the article here.