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Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering
Professor J Fisher CBE
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Position
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Responsibilities
- Director of the Institute of Medical & Biological Engineering
- Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Deputy-Vice-Chancellor - University of Leeds
- Non-Executive Director of BITE Centre for Industrial Collaboration
- Director of Tissue Regenix
Academic Background
Qualifications
BSc (Hons) 1st Class in Physics - Birmingham
Postgraduate Certificate in Design & Manufacture - Preston
PhD in Bioengineering - Glasgow
DEng - Leeds
Honours
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
Professional Distinctions
Fellow, Institution of Mechanical Engineers - F.I.MECH.E.
Chartered Engineer, Engineering Council - C.Eng.
Chartered Scientist, Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine - CSci
Fellow, Institution of Physics and Engineering in Medicine - F.IPEM
Research activities
Personal research interests lie primarily in the following areas:
Research Institute Membership
Research students
Professor Fisher CBE is currently supervising the following research student(s):
| STUDENT | THESIS TITLE |
|---|---|
| Abdellatif Abdelgaied | Computational wear modelling of knee joint replacements |
| Mazen Al-Hajjar | Wear of hard-on-hard hip prostheses:Influence of head size, surgical position, material and function |
| James Anderson | Development of a patho-physiology based morphological model for avascular necrosis of the femoral head |
| Shuqiang An | Computational modelling of fluid load support in articular cartilage |
| Hazel Fermor | Engineering of natural cartilage substitution materials |
| Dawn Groves | The effect of the natural acetabulum's geometry on hip osteoarthritis: a clinical and tribological evaluation |
| Megan Hadley | Long term functional simulation of large diameter metal on metal hip implants |
| Salah Hammouche | Wear mechanisms and products of novel hip replacements |
| Jahid Hasan | Tissue engineering of the meniscus |
| Mark Hepples | A tissue-engineered annuloplasty ring for AV valve reconstruction |
| Xijin Hua | Biomechanisms and biotribology of artificial hip joints |
| Philip Hyde | Wear simulation of lumbar total disc replacements |
| Wei Jiang | Wear measurement of polyethylene components in total knee replacement |
| Junyan Li | Integrated computational biomechanics/biotribological modelling of natural hip joints |
| Kathryn Lowery | Factors affecting stability of osteochondral grafts |
| Carl Maguire | Tissue engineering osteochondral grafts from biological scaffolds, applications to the patello-femoral joint in the knee |
| Raman Maiti | Bio tribology of the patella femoral joint in total knee replacement |
| Stewart McLure | Improving models for translational research in osteoarthritis of the knee |
| Jake Milton-Barker | Development of sterilisation techniques for acellular vascular grafts |
| Carly Taylor | The biotribology of articular cartilage in health and disease |
| Simon Taylor | An in-vitro medium term simulation of hip hemiarthroplasty |
| Keeley Tomkinson | Development, of anti-calcification treatments for cardiovascular TE scaffolds |
| Eirini Tsagkaraki | Macroscale and microscale modelling of tissue engineering vascular grafts conditional under pulsatile flow |
| Vassilis Vayianos | Soft-tissue in-growth into hard porous structures for ligament fixation in revision joint arthroplasties |
| Manyi Wang | Application of magnetic resonance imaging for in vitro investigation of meniscus and cartilage degeneration in the knee |
| Philip Wright | Impact and deformation of acetabular cups |
Selected publications
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| Wilshaw, SP; Rooney, P; Berry, H; Kearney, JN; Homer-Vanniasinkam, S; Fisher, J; Ingham, E Development and characterization of acellular allogeneic arterial matrices.. Tissue Engineering Part A, vol. 18, pp.471-483. 2012. | DOI |
| Michalopoulos, E; Knight, RL; Korossis, S; Kearney, JN; Fisher, J; Ingham, E Development of methods for studying the differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells under cyclic compressive strain.. Tissue Engineering Part C Methods, vol. 18, pp.252-262. 2012. | DOI |
| Sariali, E; Stewart, T; Jin, Z; Fisher, J Effect of cup abduction angle and head lateral microseparation on contact stresses in ceramic-on-ceramic total hip arthroplasty.. Journal of Biomechanics, vol. 45, pp.390-393. 2012. | DOI |
| Sariali, E; Jin, Z; Stewart, T; Fisher, J Spectral characterization of squeaking in ceramic-on-ceramic total hip arthroplasty: comparison of in vitro and in vivo values.. Journal of Orthopaedic Research, vol. 30, pp.185-189. 2012. | DOI |
| Vicars, R; Prokopovich, P; Brown, TD; Tipper, JL; Ingham, E; Fisher, J; Hall, RM The Effect of Anterior-Posterior Shear on the Wear of CHARITÉ Total Disc Replacement.. Spine (Phila Pa 1976), vol. 37, pp.E528-E534. 2012. | DOI |
| Fisher, J 50 Active Years After 50. NIHR Office for Clinical Research Infrastructure (NOCRI). London, 2011. |