While we might be a relatively small node, we deliver world leading research and are recruiting talented colleagues with diverse backgrounds to join the team. 

We aim to 

• Provide fundamental understanding to the operation of living tissue/organs/physiological systems
• Develop engineering techniques to be used as diagnostics tools

Areas of interest:

• Arterial mechanics and physiological fluid mechanics
• Flow structure interaction in cardiovascular systems
• Mechanical Heart Assist Devices (blood pumps)
• Finite Element modelling
• Biomedical imaging and signal processing
• Statistical machine learning in biology and biotechnology (vaccine manufacturing)
• Data Sciences in medical applications
• Artificial Intelligence in bioengineering applications
• Biological tissue characterisation 

Node leader:

• Ashraf Khir

Academic Core members:

• Alessandro Borghi
• Rui Carvalho
• Lian Gan
• Raheleh Kafieh