Imperial College London

Professor C. Ross Ethier

Faculty of EngineeringDepartment of Bioengineering

Visiting Professor
 
 
 
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Contact

 

r.ethier

 
 
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Location

 

Royal School of MinesSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Overview

My research area is biomechanics, with focus on:

  • Glaucoma, including studies of aqueous humour drainage and optic nerve head biomechanics
  • Mechanobiology of Osteoarthritis
  • Flow in the cardiovascular system; relationship between hemodynamics and arterial disease
  • Cellular biomechanics

View an image showing some of the tissues that are important in glaucoma. We study the lamina cribrosa and the trabecular meshwork/inner wall of Schlemm’s canal.

Please follow this link to learn more about my research om osteoarthritis.

View an image showing computed flow and wall shear stress patterns in a mouse aorta and a human aorta. The mouse is a widely used model for studying arterial disease in humans, yet surprisingly its blood flow patterns are different than those in the human.

Funding

Collaborators

Professor Mark Johnson, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University

Professor Dan Stamer, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Arizona

Professor John Flanagan, School of Optometry, University of Waterloo

Research Staff

Lei,MY

Weinberg,DMSSWPPD

Research Student Supervision

London,MMVDIC

Toronto,MAE

Toronto,MCH

Toronto,MRN

Toronto,MSR