Department of Bioengineering

Welcome to the UK's leading Bioengineering department

The Human Robotics Group in the laboratory

Research

Our research themes are highly interdisciplinary and involve collaborations with departments from all faculties in the College, London hospitals, and international universities and research centres.

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Study

The Department of Bioengineering is committed to the highest quality teaching both in and outside the lecture theatre. We offer opportunities to study at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

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Caption: Vasiliki Vardakastani, Research Associate in the Biomechanics Lab

Caption: Admiring the cortical and trabecular structure of bone

Caption: Rehabilitation engineering student project demonstrated at project day

Caption: The Musculoskeletal Mechanics research team in action in the Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies (CBIS).

Caption: Professor Anthony Bull welcomes The Duke of Sussex during his visit to Day 1 of the Blast Injury Conference 2019.

Caption: Second year Engineering Design Project students showcasing their Smart Baby Buggy project at the Bioengineering Demonstration Day.

Caption: Professor James (Jimmy) Moore, The Bagrit & RAEng Chair in Medical Device Design. He researches fluid flow in the vascular and lymph systems of the human body

Caption: UROP project students with Dr Ian Radcliffe, Senior Teaching Fellow.

Caption: Arianna Rech an MRes student, working on her micro-fluidic device.

Caption: MEng Biomedical Engineering students from the Animal Locomotion and Bio-Inspired Robotics module compete in an autonomous robot race. Students use small pixy-cameras and Raspberry Pi computers to build and code an autonomous robot that navigates around a track and avoid obstacles.

Dr Joseph Sherwood with the JAMVENT emergency ventilator

Caption: In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, experts from the Departments of Bioengineering and Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College London designed a simple, low-cost emergency ventilator that can be built to meet MHRA requirements using generic parts.

Two researchers sat at a lab bench handling equipment

Caption: Researchers in a lab at the newly built Sir Michael Uren Biomedical Engineering Research Hub (BmE Hub). The Hub will comprise state-of-the-art laboratory and office facilities for the next generation of biomedical engineering research across technology and application themes.