Fantastic effort from Team Headingley who gained first place in the Early Career Researcher (ECR) Target Product Profile (TPP) competition at the OncoEng launch meeting. Indeed, all the teams did remarkably well and it was more about exposing the ECRs to this innovation tool that are important when considering product development. Congratulations to Maxime Berg, … Read more
OncoEng welcomes the funding to be provided to UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the body that administers research funding to public bodies in the United Kingdom. UKRI’s overall budget, for the next three years, was set as part of the UK Government’s 2021 Spending Review and rises from £7.9 billion in 2022 to 2023, to … Read more
OncoEng is looking for its first PhD candidate, based at UCL! The student will join the research groups of both Rebecca Shipley (computational modelling in medicine and biology; UCL Mechanical Engineering) and Simon Walker-Samuel (biophysics and imaging; UCL Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging), collaborating closely with colleagues in UCL Mathematics (Nick Ovenden). The project will … Read more
Metamaterials are architected materials designed to exhibit properties superior to their constituent material. Metamaterial structures are well established in optics, acoustics, and thermodynamics. Additive Manufacturing has enabled the expansion of metamaterial application space into mechanical mechanisms. These architected materials exploit structural deformations and mechanical energies to exhibit unique phenomena that are used to build functional … Read more
Customized patient implants have been shown to improve patient outcomes but they typically require increased preoperative assessment, involve longer lead times, and are burdened with higher costs all of which have prevented widespread adoption. To attain the benefits of patient-specific implants, whilst avoiding the limitations of currently available solutions, fully automated design and manufacture product … Read more
A recently published paper by Simão Laranjeira and Rebecca Shipley from UCL Centre for Nerve Engineering developed a new in silico framework to help design peripheral nerve injury repair constructs. The work was developed within the remit of the UCL Centre for Nerve Engineering of creating novel strategies to treat peripheral nerve injury. The framework … Read more
A £7 million research project has been launched to develop a new imaging and keyhole surgery approach to the treatment for secondary bone tumours of the spine. Known as metastatic bone disease, the tumours spread from a primary cancer located elsewhere in the body. The condition is particularly associated with breast cancer. The bone tumours cause vertebrae to … Read more