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.