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Modelling Methods for Medical Engineering

3ME Initiative – first six months

Mark Smith & Jon DobsonThursday 18 September 2008,

Glasgow

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3ME Specific Objectives:

“1. Create an interdisciplinary environment and culture that enables Keele researchers to work together in small groups on new common interest areas

2. Host international senior research visitors to enhance the research skills of Keele and the UK's capability in medical engineering

3. Invest to start up new key collaborative medical engineering projects.”

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Biomedical Perspective

Biomedical Engineering – “a new frontier”.

Expertise: orthopaedics, medical physics, bio-engineering and tissue engineering

Eg: 3D tissue engineering in in vitro bioreactors and in vivo systems, fluid-structure interaction in the lung, stem cell delivery, etc

Beneficiaries: patients, clinicians/NHS, industry, future of UK engineering

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Geophysics Perspective

1. Expertise in: geophysical signal processing, image processing, electrical, electromagnetic, ultrasonic and seismic imaging. Clustered supercomputing and modelling of the above potentials. Data acquisition of many types.

1. On-going interactions: Tsunamis, multi-component surface wave propagation and dispersion for structural information. Micro-CT imaging of geological material (fossil, mineral)

2. Interested in: Electromagnetic and ultrasonic interferometry. Integrated inversion of combined data sets, ie ultrasonics and electromagnetic. Development of innovative instrumentation. The use of non-invasive passive noise imaging of various kinds.

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Mathematics Perspective

Relevant expertise: Continuum Mechanics, Fluids and solids; Fluid

Structure Interaction. Waves in Fluids, Solids and Structures. Anisotropy and pre-stress.

On-going interactions:Modelling of stem cell delivery via circulation,

Wave propagation in arterial walls, Tsunamis, Dispersion in layered media. Tissue Engineering, Modelling of Aneurysms.

What are we looking for? Interesting joint projects, joint PhD Students and start up funding.

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What’s on offer from 3ME?

- "Researcher in Residence" posts or pairings of staff (over £100,000 “buy-out” funds available)

- start-up grants (total over £50,000 available) resulting from two "sandpit" discussion meetings

- Research Retreat- Regular "Back-to-Back Seminars"- International Speakers coming to Keele- Training Courses and Summer Schools for

research studentsFlexibility in how we use the EPSRC funds.

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Progress so far…

- Opening meeting – March 2008: 29 took part

Food

“Speed dating”

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Progress so far…

- Sandpit meeting – September 2008:

A hotel, visiting speakers,

breakouts. And…

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Progress so far…

A Dragons Den=> 7 pump-primed projects, spending ~£25,000.

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Still to organise…

- "Researcher in Residence“: 1 or 2 researchers immerse themselves in a different research culture. We have 3 x 5 months full time funding available to pay for “buy-out”.

- Regular "Back-to-Back Seminars“, two 40 minute perspectives on a similar topic.

- Invited international visitors for about 2 weeks each

- Residential Research Retreat over several days.

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Practical benefits so far

- We now know size and shape of the “gap”.- Involvement of clinical staff.- Many new contacts between faculties

(and even some on the same corridor).

- Outside speakers will come to a 3ME event.

- Links to other projects eg students for new Loughborough/Nottingham/Keele Doctoral Training Centre.

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Changes, failures …?

• Internet “chat room” and industry forum has not taken off so far.

• We effectively merged the planned problem scoping workshop with the first Sandpit.

We are very interested in how to measure the ultimate “added value”.

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3ME Contacts

3ME Project Leaders: Alicia El Haj, Jon Dobson, Graham Rogerson, Peter Styles, Mark Smith

3ME Administrator: Paula Marsh• mail p.marsh@bemp.keele.ac.uk • phone 01782 554253. 3ME Website:

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