Biomedical Engineering
PhD
In Keele
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PhD
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Location
Keele
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The multidisciplinary Bioengineering and Therapeutics Group, comprises a multi-disciplinary team linked to the University Hospital of North Staffordshire and RJAH Orthopaedic Hospital at Oswestry with a major focus on enabling technologies involved in cell and tissue engineering and introduction to the clinic of cell therapies for regenerative medicine.
Specific expertise includes active clinical cell therapies, enabling technology development associated with environmental chambers or bioreactor design, targeting and delivery vehicles and strategies using magnetic nanoparticles, control of differentiation of tissue specific stem cells and skeletal stem cells. The grouping holds an EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre in Regenerative Medicine since 2009 run jointly with Nottingham and Loughborough.
The Institute has commenced the first UK MRC multi-centre trial (ACTIVE) into cell therapy in connective tissues. The two hospital sites have GMP cell therapy labs for culture and delivery of human cells on site. Recently, the group has been awarded as partner the first EPSRC Innovative Manufacturing Centre in Regenerative Medicine, which aims to initiate and improve links to industry for taking cell therapies to market for clear patient benefit and the team is part of the EXPERTISSUES EU FP6 NOE. The BT group includes links to other research areas listed here such as Respiratory Medicine, Pharmacy, Clinical Science, Imaging and Neurology. The group has commenced a SP3 - People IRSES EU programme (HYANJI) establishing a research network to Universities in China, Tsinghua and Chengdu Universities, Schools of Pharmacy and Biotechnology.
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Subjects
- Engineering
- Biomedical
- Team Training
- Orthopaedic
- Tissue Engineering
- Biomedical Engineering
Course programme
Research Subject Areas:
Regenerative mechanisms - Prof Alicia El Haj ; Prof Ying Yang; Prof Sally Roberts; Dr Stuart Jenkins
Stem cells - Prof James Richardson; Prof Divya Chari; Prof Nick Forsyth; Prof Sally Roberts; Prof Rosemary Fricker; Dr Stuart Jenkins
Biomedical technologies – Prof Glenn Morris; Dr Paul Roach; Dr Josep Sule-Suso
Biomaterials for tissue regeneration - Prof Ying Yang; Dr Paul Roach; Prof Sally Roberts; Dr Stuart Jenkins
Orthopaedic tissue engineering - Prof Ying Yang; Prof James Richardson; Prof Sally Roberts
Magnetic nanotechnologies - Professor Divya Chari
Rehabilitation engineering - Prof Anand Pandyan; Dr Ed Chadwick; Dr Dimitra Blana;
Biomechanics and mechanobiology - Dr Jan Herman Kuiper
Biomedical Engineering