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We are delighted to invite you to the digital launch of the Researchers’ and Engineers’ Alliance for Communication in Healthcare (REACH) on Friday 23 September at 18:00-19:00 GMT, hosted by Science Gallery London 

Today’s landscape of biomedicine and stakeholder engagement in medical technologies will be discussed with exceptional speakers: 

PROF ANTHONY BULL (Chair of Trustees of the BioMedEng Association and Professor at Imperial College London) 

PROF TRISHA GREENHALGH (Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Research in Health Sciences Unit, University of Oxford) 

PROF PETER BANNISTER (Healthcare Sector Chair, Institution of Engineering and Technology, and Vice President Life Sciences, Ada Health). 

Bioengineers DR GIOVANNI BIGLINO (University of Bristol) and DR ADELAIDE DE VECCHI (King’s College London), REACH co-founders and co-directors, will join from Science Gallery London and present the vision for the REACH platform in this context. 

Register here for this free event and find out more about REACH.

The event is open to everyone but requires registration. A link for the event will follow after registration. 

REACH is funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering and endorsed by the Academy of Medical Sciences. 

Happy New Year!

The BioMedEng Association industry event is less than a week away. The event will take place on 13th January 2022 via Microsoft Teams Live from 4-6 pm.

Our confirmed industry presenters include GE Healthcare, Medisieve, Gill Jennings & Every LLP, Siemens Healthineers etc. The event will also include a panel discussion on the Future of Biomedical Engineering – An industry Perspective. The panel will be chaired by Prof Dario Farina, Chair of Neurorehabilitation Engineering, Imperial College London.

Please find a copy of the draft programme below.

To attend the event, both members and non-members will need to register on Eventbrite with this link. Joining instructions will be sent to registered attendees nearer to the event.

This event will be free for BioMedEng members, but non-members will be charged a £30 attendance fee. To renew your 2022 membership or join the Association, please click here.

The event will provide an opportunity for the BioMedEng community to engage with key firms in the MedTech sector. Prior to the event, please see an Intellectual Property strategy article on ‘Scaling from Lab Bench to Market: The Advantages of Patent Rights in Biomedical, Medical and Bioengineering’ from Gill Jennings & Every LLP below.

If you would like to submit any questions to the panel in advance, please send an email to gifty@biomedeng.org by 17.00 on 11^th Jan 2022.

Register now – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future-of-biomedical-engineering-an-industry-perspective-tickets-239892604237

BioMedEng Council – Admissions

The BioMedEng Council has decided to establish a range of working groups to support the activities and operations of the Association. This was agreed at the recent AGM of the Association and a copy of the minutes is available to members here.

The Council is now inviting nominations for Leaders/Chairs of the following working groups:

1. Education
2. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
3. Engagement/Dissemination/Communication
4. Early Career Researchers
5. Industry Engagement and Sponsorship
6. Translation/Public Health/Engagement with Regulators

Elections for these posts will take place in January 2022. Successful candidates will automatically become members of the BioMedEng Council.

To nominate, please send an email with the name, contact details, short biography/CV of the nominee, as well as your contact details and a short description of why you think the person should be considered to chair a particular working group to gifty@biomedeng.org. Self-nominations are allowed. The deadline for receiving all nominations is Friday 17^th December 2021.

BioMedEng Association Engages GJE as its Exclusive Intellectual Property Firm

We are pleased to announce that Gill Jennings & Every LLP (GJE) is now the recommended intellectual property (IP) firm of the Association of Biomedical Engineers, Medical Engineers & Bioengineers (BioMedEng). As part of this exciting new relationship, BioMedEng members will have access to GJE’s expert IP attorneys, and both parties are excited to collaborate on the protection of IP matters in the sector.

GJE Partner, Mr Graham Spenceley said: ‘Biomedical Engineering is an exciting field of medical technology, and the BioMedEng Association represents an extensive range of programmes and a community of top practitioners working and studying in this cutting-edge industry. We are proud that the BioMedEng Association has chosen GJE to be its recommended IP firm as this relationship presents a unique opportunity for us to guide the Association’s membership on their intellectual property. Our firm’s vision is founded on the value of creativity and we look forward to discussing the new and exciting innovations BioMedEng members present us with.’

BioMedEng Secretary, Dr Gifty Tetteh said: ‘We are excited to have GJE on board as our exclusive IP firm. As part of advancing education and knowledge transfer in Biomedical Engineering, Medical Engineering and Bioengineering, the BioMedEng Association supports translating research beyond academia. Our partnership with GJE will contribute towards this and allow our members to profit from a wide range of benefits including complementary intellectual property advice.’

You can find out more about GJE and BioMedEng’s partnership here.

September 8, 18:30

This lecture remembers Professor Peter Wells, one of the most well-known and highly
regarded figures in the world of medical ultrasound. He pioneered the development
of ultrasonics as a diagnostic and surgical tool, which revolutionised clinical practice
around the world.

Opening remarks
Professor Stephen O’Connor
President, IPEM

Introduction
Professor Sebastien Ourselin
Professor of Healthcare Engineering
Head of School, Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King’s College London

Diagnostic Imaging for Prostate Cancer
Professor Hashim Ahmed
Consultant Urological Surgeon, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and The Cromwell
Hospital, London

Research in Radiotherapy
Professor Teresa Guerrero Urbano
Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and KCL

Radiotherapy
Professor Marcel Van Herk
Chair in Radiotherapy Physics, University of Manchester

Radiotherapy: Lessons from Covid-19
Dr. Jeanette Dickson
Consultant Oncologist, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, President of the Royal College of
Radiologists

Q&A
Professor Steve Keevil
Professor of Medical Physics, School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King’s
College London and Head of Medical Physics, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

This is a Teams online event and is free to attend. Click here to register.

The Association of Biomedical Engineers, Medical Engineers & Bioengineers will be hosting an education workshop to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Friday 2nd July 2021 at 10:00 am.

The workshop will explore the lessons learned for biomedical education in the lockdown. As part of the event, the panel will explore the benefits and challenges associated with remote learning of various biomedical engineering courses. The workshop will be chaired by Prof Kawal Rhode from King’s College London and is being organised in partnership with Prof Manos Drakakis from Imperial College London. Please find a copy of the programme below.

The event will be held on MS Teams and is free to attend. Use this link to join the event: BioMedEng Remote Learning Workshop.

Following on from our successful launch which included a panel discussion on ‘The Bioengineering Response to the Global Pandemic’, we are publishing a collection of articles with the Open Access journal – Frontiers in Medical Technology. The collection will capture the bioengineering response and activity on COVID-19 from research groups in the UK and around the world.

The collection is available online and titled: The Bioengineering Response to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, and the editors are Prof Alicia El Haj – University of Birmingham, Prof Anthony Bull – Imperial College London and Prof Rebecca Shipley – University College London.

The collection will bring together high-level manuscripts from international experts, with the main aim to create an E-Book compilation. Manuscript contributions can be of different types and the deadline for submissions is currently set to 31^st March 2021.

For more information, please contact medicaltechnology@frontiersin.org

The official launch of the Association of Biomedical Engineers, Medical Engineers and Bioengineers took place on 14th September 2020. You can watch a recording of the launch here. Details of the event and a copy of the invitation is in the previous news article below.

You are cordially invited to attend the official launch of the Association of Biomedical Engineers, Medical Engineers and Bioengineers (BioMedEng Association).

The event will take online on Monday 14th September 2020 at 15:00, with a launch address from Dr Hayaatun Sillem, CEO, Royal Academy of Engineering at 15:15, and a panel session at 15:50.

The panel will include leading academics and engineers, industrial executives, key government officials and NHS professionals. We will broadcast the event to the wider UK bioengineering community virtually.

Please hold the date in your calendar and find a copy of the programme below.

Registration link (Eventbrite)

Programme

15:00	Welcome Prof Anthony Bull, Inaugural Chair of Trustees
15:05	Bioengineering Societies in the UK – the earlier days Tom Miller, Researcher – History of Academic Bioengineering
15:10	Background/History Prof Peter Weinberg, Founder and Past Chair, UK Bioengineering Society
15:20	Launch Address Dr Hayaatun Sillem, CEO, Royal Academy of Engineering
15:35	Official Launch BioMedEng Council Rep – Prof Claudia Mazza, University of Sheffield
15:45	Association Update – BioMedEng21 Prof Alicia El Haj, Trustee, BioMedEng Association
15:50	Debate/Panel Discussion – “ The Bioengineering Response to the Global Pandemic” Moderator – Dr Helen Meese Vice Chair, Biomedical Engineering Division, The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) Panel Prof David James, COVID Antibody Tests, University of Sheffield Prof Rebecca Shipley, UCL-Ventura CPAP, University College London Dr Sophie Cox, Personalised PPE, University of Birmingham Dr Joseph Sherwood, JamVent, Imperial College London Prof Sebastien Ourselin, AI Diagnostics for COVID, King’s College London Prof Molly Stevens, Technology for very Early Diagnosis, Imperial College London
16:50	Closing Remarks and announcement of BioMedEng22 and BioMedEng23 Prof Anthony Bull, Inaugural Chair of Trustees

Remember to register for this event with Eventbrite: https://bit.ly/3hbTX76