Nine staff and PhD students from the Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (Faculties of Engineering and Biological Science) attended the Otley Science Fair on 15th November 2014 interacting with the general public through a interactive exhibits. Visitors to the stand ranged from toddlers to pensioners, and everyone in between! ‘We’ve got your back’ Interactive...
On Friday the 26th of September, 4 researchers from the Institute of Medical & Biological Engineering took part to YORNIGHT, one of the 300 events across Europe hosting the European Researchers' Night. Over 200 visitors, mainly families, came to our evening stand set in King's Manor within York's Museum Gardens. They had a chance to...
HRH the Countess of Wessex visited researchers from the Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (iMBE) at the Great Yorkshire Show last week. The Countess had the chance to meet the team and ‘Frank’, the University’s very own cycling skeleton. Frank is fitted with two artificial hips and an artificial knee and demonstrates the pioneering...
F our research staff from the Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering attended the NIHR ‘Ok to Ask’ event on the 20th May 2014. This was a chance for our researchers to engage with patients at the Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit (LMBRU) at Chapel Allerton. A lot of the patients attending the event have...
Engineers at the University of Leeds, led by Dr Claire Brockett will be cheering on the start of this year’s Tour de France in Leeds, as they delve into the engineering behind the event: from super-engineered bikes to bioengineering for broken bones. Engineering the Tour de France: From Body to Bicycle...
Seven staff and PhD students from the Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering spent four days interacting with school students and the general public at The Big Bang Fair in Birmingham. Visitors to the stand ranged from toddlers to pensioners with two days dedicated to school groups. Over the four days there were approximately 84,000 visitors to the event. There...
The ORS celebrated its 60th Annual Meeting in New Orleans USA and iMBE students and staff participated over this 4 day event (15-18 March 2014). The theme of this year's meeting was "Leading innovation through collaboration". Please find below a list of our posters. Click on the links to access the relevant pdf. Poster No...
6 researchers from iMBE have been busy at the Big Bang Fair at the NEC in Birmingham, where we are exhibiting ‘iMBE – We’ve got your back’ as part of the EPSRC stand until Sunday. Around 3,000 visitors came to the stand yesterday where we have the jump-o-meter, raspberry spine, interactive touchscreens and the giant...
Member of Parliament for Leeds North West, Greg Mulholland, has visited the Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering as part of the Royal Society Pairing Scheme. Greg was invited to the Institute to see the pioneering research that Dr Claire Brockett and her team are undertaking on ankle joints and also toured the test laboratories....
A new £3.2 million training centre aimed at keeping the UK at the cutting edge of regenerative medicine research will be based at the University of Leeds, the government announced today. The Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Innovation in Medical and Biological Engineering is expected to bring 50 PhD...