Oxford Institute of Biomedical Engineering

The Institute is focused on several research areas including the development of human joint prosthetics and biological substitutes for medical implantation.

The Institute is located at the Churchill Hospital campus and has been established to enhance the cooperation between engineering science and clinical medicine. The scientists aim for new organ substitutes, better designed prosthetics, the improvement of imaging techniques and the use of mobile technology to monitor medical data from persons with chronic diseases like diabetes or asthma.

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The Institute is engaged in six different research areas including cardiovascular biomedical engineering and clinical image analysis.
To improve arterial stenting the Institute works on the development of structures with alternating configuration and uses computer simulation to reduce complication in applying these techniques. The Institute wants to establish an acoustic and ultrasound imaging laboratory as well as an in vivo soft-tissue imaging and modelling laboratory with the focus on cancer imaging and image-guided therapy.

The PowerJect Centre at the Institute researches methods for needle-free injections for pain-free drug and vaccine application.
The scientists use compressed gas to accelerate the particles which penetrate skin or mucosa. The work of the Centre is supported by clinical and immunology specialists.

The Institute’s part which works on E-health and biomedical signal processing combines mobile phones with a blood glucose meter or peak flow meter for the transmission of medical data. This can be achieved by collaborating with service providers, medical charities and diagnosticians.

The Orthopaedic Biomedical Engineering group is particularly focused on the research of human joints and their prosthetics using computer modelling.

The aim of the Regenerative Biomedical Technology group is to find biological replacements for medical implantations by working with 3D scaffold and living cells in bioreactors. The scientists are also interested in the establishment of online tissue monitoring.