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University Chancellor Lord Bragg, Vice-Chancellor Professor Michael Arthur and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor John Fisher have visited Buckingham Palace to receive the Queens Anniversary Prize. They were accompanied by postgraduate students and research assistants from the University's institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (iMBE), which was awarded the Prize. iMBE is the UK's leading bioengineering research...
Faculty of Engineering spin out company, Tissue Regenix Group Plc has secured a new investment of £25 million. The company was formed in 2006 to take an innovative range of 'biological scaffold' products (now known as dCELL® technologies) to market. The dCELL® process removes the cells from natural tissues to leave a biological scaffold which...
Staff and students are participating in the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society which takes place between 4-7 February in San Francisco. Please find below the list of posters and podiums. Click on the poster number to access the relevant pdf. Paper 0306 - Quantitative Comparison of UHMWPE Wear Particles Generated from SB Charité...
Longer-lasting hip joints, replacement heart valves and knee reconstructions – technologies all developed at the University of Leeds – have won the Royal seal of approval. Two decades of world-leading medical engineering research and impact have been rewarded with the Queen's Anniversary Prize, which is the country's highest accolade for an academic institution. The Institute...
The bones of people who died up to a hundred years ago are being used in the development of new treatments for chronic back pain. It is the first time old bones have been used in this way. The research is bringing together the latest computer modelling techniques developed at the University of Leeds, and...
Staff, alumni and a longstanding supporter of the University of Leeds are recognised in the New Year's Honours list. Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor John Fisher receives a CBE and Head of Catering and Conferencing, Beverley Kenny, has been awarded an MBE. NASA astronaut and Leeds graduate Piers Sellers has received an OBE and Marjorie Ziff, a...
Professor John Fisher from Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering at The University of Leeds is speaking at the UK National Stem Cell Network Annual Science Meeting in Nottingham about his teams research into how biological scaffolding will pave the way for off-the-shelf tissue transplants. Professor Fisher and his colleague Professor Ingham have been working...
Advances in medical engineering that could help improve the quality of life of an ageing population are being showcased at the University of Leeds. Work at the WELMEC Centre of Excellence in Medical Engineering is centred on technologies that will provide '50 active years after 50'. Its partner programme, the Innovation and Knowledge Centre in...
Tissue Regenix, a medical technology company spun-out of the University of Leeds, has announced the proposed reverse takeover of AIMlisted Oxeco plc and that it is seeking admission to AIM. The group is focused on the development and commercialisation of acellular tissue replacement products to address the chronic global shortfalls in donor tissue availability. Key...
WELMEC Centre of Excellence in Medical Engineering at the University of Leeds is helping the Wellcome Trust-EPSRC Medical Engineering Initiative celebrate its first birthday and a year in which researchers have brought groundbreaking medical technologies closer to reality. In June 2009, the Trust and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) announced funding for...