PhD Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical Engineering brings together four important research themes associated with advanced medical diagnostics: rehabilitation and assistive technologies, cell and tissue engineering and systems biology.

Overview

We are currently home to 35 research students pursuing PhD in fields as diverse as infectious disease diagnostics for the developing world, brain-computer interfaces, stem cell differentiation using nanotechnology, robots as orthotic aids, and the creation of artificial cells.

Research areas

Our research expertise covers the following areas:

Advanced Medical Diagnostics & Lab-on-a-chip

Advanced diagnostics
Lab-on-a-Chip for Developing World diagnostics
Micromanipulation for advanced diagnostics
Microrheology
Cell microtechnologies
Synthetic biology
Bio-nanophotonics

Biomaterials

Advanced Materials
Cell Engineering
Regenerative Medicine

Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technologies

Functional rehabilitation
Neurorehabilitation
Rehabilitation & exercise
Assistive technologies

Synthetic Biology

Synthetic cell implementation and control using nano-technology
Modelling & robustness analysis of large-scale stochastic biomolecular networks
Biomolecular network inferring
Human control systems.