“I am honoured and delighted to host the UK’s Biomedical Engineering Community, in an open, friendly and collaborative environment that will showcase our world-class research, savoir faire and entrepreneurship. As Vice-Dean for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, I am also looking forward at making our event inclusive and equitable, which is part of the fundamental ethos of UCL and a key part of what makes UCL Engineering special.”
Professor Vanessa Diaz (UCL Mechanical Engineering)
Chair of the UCL Organising Committee
“Over the last decade we have witnessed biomedical technology playing a pivotal role in measurement, assessment and therapy provision. Clinicians, researchers, insurers, politicians and engineers alike desire affordable technology systems that span to clinical and home environment, are easy to use and result in functional gains that carryover to every-day life. I look forward to working with the BioMedEng 2022 organising committee to deliver a conference that promotes the translation of biomedical technologies across fields and its clinical delivery.”
Professor Rui Loureiro (UCL Aspire CREATe)
Co-Chair of the UCL Organising Committee
Committee members
Prof Vanessa Diaz – Co-Chair
Vanessa is a Professor of Healthcare Engineering at UCL and leads an internationally recognised cardiovascular engineering group as well as the vascular engineering platform at the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences, at UCL. Vanessa is leading ground-breaking work to make ‘precision vascular surgery’ a reality and collaborates with many hospitals, including Barts and the Royal Free in London, as well as many patient groups. Vanessa is PI of a number of grants funded by charities, the EU and UKRI. She’s a BioMedEng Council Member and also the Vice-Dean for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at UCL Engineering.
Prof Rui Loureiro – Co-Chair
Rui Loureiro is Professor of Surgical & Rehabilitation Engineering and head of the Department of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Science and the Aspire Centre for Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology (CREATe) at UCL. He specialises in advanced robotics and human interactive systems for surgery and rehabilitation. He has pioneered work in stroke rehabilitation, movement disorders and neuropathic pain, and has a wealth of experience with both the design of rehabilitation technologies and translation of such aids to clinical practice. He is associated with a number of professional organisations, has filed six patents, raised over £23m in research, commercial and infrastructure grants and his work has been highly cited.
Dr Antonio Lombardo
Antonio Lombardo is a Lecturer in Nanostructures and Devices at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) and the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department, UCL. His research is focussed on design, fabrication and testing of novel electronic devices based on 2D materials, 2D materials heterostructures and 2D/3D integration for applications in high frequency biosensing, neuromorphic computing and energy-efficient electronics
Federica Ninno
Federica Ninno is a PhD student in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, working in the Multiscale Cardiovascular Engineering Group at the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences, UCL.
Her research focuses on restenosis prediction models combining clinical, demographic and patient-specific hemodynamics information after minimally-invasive procedures for peripheral arterial disease treatment.
Dr Sarah Keating
Sarah Keating PhD is a Senior Research Software Developer at UCL. She is also a coordinator of the COmputational Modeling in BIology NEtwork (COMBINE) and has over 20 years experience in developing standards and the supporting software infrastructure that facilitates encoding the whole cycle of simulation experiments from model to results. This allows biologists, bioengineers and anyone needing to use models to benefit from Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reproducible i.e. FAIR models.
Louis Girardin
Louis Girardin, PhD Student, Multiscale cardiovascular Engineering Group. His work is on doing numerical tools for aortic dissection mixing medical data and CFD.
Dr Rupy Kaur Matharu
Rupy Kaur Matharu is a Research Fellow on the UKRI funded AIRBODS (Airborne Infection Reduction through Building Operation and Design for SARS-CoV-2) project. She is looking at how ventilation and other factors affect the risk of transmission at large non-domestic public gatherings. Rupy also has a wealth of experience in a range of disciplines from Biomaterials to Tissue Engineering.
Dr Hirak K Patra
Hirak is an Associate Professor of Nanomedicine and Regenerative Medicines at the Department of Surgical Biotechnology and the current DGT Research (UCL-DSIS) at the Faculty of Medicine. He is an expert in Nanomedicine and Regenerative Medicine and interested in understanding, developing, and engineering immune-safe, blood compatible nano and macroscale molecular nano-biosystems for ‘Advanced Healthcare Challenges’. The major emphasis of ‘The Patra Lab’ is on establishing programmable and implantable nano-biosystems for personalised solution.
Dr Pawel Markiewicz
Pawel Markiewicz PhD is a senior postdoctoral researcher in PET image reconstruction and analysis at the Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering and the Centre of Medical Imaging Computing. He is also a PET imaging scientific consultant to Oncovision.
Dr Daniel Stuckey
Daniel Stuckey is a British Heart Foundation Senior Research Fellow and heads pre-clinical cardiovascular imaging at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging. He leads a team that develops and applies novel multi-modality imaging approaches for guiding and enhancing the efficacy of regenerative biomaterial therapies for cardiovascular disease.
Ebba Montgomery Liljeroth
Ebba is a final year PhD student in Biomechanical Engineering at the Cardiovascular Engineering Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, UCL. Her research focuses on the design of novel medical devices, in particular cardiovascular stents, for which she is exploring the use of auxetic structures to mimic the natural deformations of the great vessels. She is also working with the Clinical Cardiovascular Engineering team at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children/UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science on an EU project for in-silico testing and validation of cardiovascular implantable devices.
Kindly supported by our sponsors:
Gold sponsor: Biomedical Engineering Steering Group
The Joint Biomedical Steering Group currently comprises of representatives from the IET, IMechE, IPEM, IOP, IOM3, BCS, FCI and the BioMedEng Association. It strives to provide a forum for member driven communities in Biomedical Engineering in the UK to come together to highlight upcoming events, make sure these are cross-advertised when suitable, and capitalise on cross discipline opportunities
Gold Sponsor: Jellagen
Jellagen Ltd is a medical technology company manufacturing next-generation collagen derived from jellyfish for medical and scientific research applications. Our mission is to commercialize Collagen Type 0 based on its many advantages over mammalian sources, while also exploring new therapeutic opportunities which arise from the unique qualities of Collagen Type 0 as a biomaterial. The Jellagen business model is based upon our deep belief in building sustainable sources for critical biomaterials which do not carry the environmental and human health risks of traditional collagen sources.
Gold Sponsor: ThermoFisher Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific helps customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics, and increase laboratory productivity. Our Thermo Scientific™ Amira™ Software solution supports advanced 2D–5D bioimaging workflows in research areas ranging from structural and cellular biology to tissue imaging, neuroscience, preclinical imaging, and bioengineering.
ThermoFisher product demo:
Advanced Biomedical 3D Image Processing and Analysis using Amira Software
In this demonstration, you will learn advanced image analysis workflows in Amira software from data import, image pre-processing, visualization & 3D volume rendering, image segmentation, AI-based deep learning and machine learning as well as batch processing for biomedical imaging.
Amira software handles multi-channel, time-series, large biomedical images in different file formats and from different imaging modalities i.e. light-sheet, confocal, electron microscopy, CT, MRI and etc.
Stop by at our booth or make an appointment with our Amira expert for a demonstration at your convenience.
Gold Sponsor: Merck
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The life science business of Merck, represents more than 300,000 products, improving quality of life for patients and fostering the success of customers. We are making future safer, devices smarter, and technology more sustainable. Our tools, services and digital platform make research simpler and help to deliver breakthroughs more quickly.
Silver sponsor: COMSOL
COMSOL is a global provider of simulation software for product design, engineering, and research in technical enterprises, labs, and universities. COMSOL Multiphysics® is an integrated environment for creating physics-based models and simulation applications. Simulation experts use COMSOL Server™ and COMSOL Compiler™ to deploy applications to design teams and customers worldwide.
Free IP review session sponsor: GJE
Gill Jennings & Every LLP (GJE) is the recommended intellectual property (IP) firm of the BioMedEng Association. GJE provides a comprehensive patents, trade marks and designs service to ensure your innovation stays secure. We take pride in providing world-class IP protection with a high quality service. For BioMedEng22, GJE have awarded a free IP review session as a prize for the abstract relating to the research project having a commercial and industrial aspect considered to have good potential for IP protection. The prize session involved guidance on how best to maximise the value of any potential IP in the winner’s innovation, and any existing IP, to support their commercial plans, including the possibility of filing patent applications.
ECR poster prize sponsor: MDPI
