MPhil 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.
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