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Professor John Fisher and students from the institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (iMBE) featured on the ITV programme 'Tonight' on Thursday 5 July. Professor Fisher discussed his research into joint replacement and substitution and the need for replacement joints with longer lifespans. Related articles: Royal Honour - Professor John Fisher receives the Queen’s Anniversary Prize....
Exclusive funding for regenerative medicine projects with academic and industry collaborators has been launched at a special conference. The event, organised by Regener8 and the Medical Technologies Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC), launched a call for five Proof of Concept (PoC) awards of up to £100K to fund projects that align with the therapeutic priorities...
The University has committed £2.1m to create a 700 square metre facility dedicated to Medical Engineering at Leeds. Accommodating over 100 research and innovation personnel the new facility will extend existing dedicated medical engineering laboratories to meet the needs of our planned growth and innovative scientific ambitions over the next decade and beyond. It will...
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...