The following list below is an overview of all available MRes Bioengineering research projects for the 2022-23 academic year. Each project is hyperlinked which will download a PDF file of the project description.

Alternatively, you may refer back to the home page to access the same projects below but categorised by their themes accordingly that may suit your area of interest.

Supervisor(s)Project Title
Barry Seemungal (Brain Sciences) Assessing the effect of Dopamine on mutual information of Perceptuo-Motor Coupli‌ng in humans via transcranial magnetic stimulation‌
Bogachan Tahirbegi Conducting polymer nanowire and graphene based transistors on paper and PDMS for ultradense ECoG (Electrocorticography) arrays‌
Bogachan Tahirbegi Fabrication of hybrid electrodes and hydrogels from conductive polymer nanowires, graphene and carbon nanotubes on PDMS for non-invasive imaging‌
Choon Hwai Yap Catheter Intervention in the Fetal Heart to Prevent Congenital Malformations
Choon Hwai Yap ‌Computational Modelling of Cardiac Biomechanics and Tissue Architecture to Understand Heart Failure
Choon Hwai Yap Fine Tuning a Novel Hemostatic Bandage for Commercialization
Choon Hwai Yap Importance of the Forces of the Heart During Embryonic Heart Development
Christopher Rowlands A New Head Mounted Display Concept: Virtual Reality in a Pair of Sunglasses
Christopher Rowlands Advanced Microscopy for Everyone
Christopher Rowlands ‌Analysing hyperspectral oncological images using cutting-edge data processing
Christopher Rowlands AstroTIRF: Pinning light to a surface
Christopher Rowlands Building a next-generation scanning microscope
Christopher Rowlands Detecting bioweapons with stand-off Raman spectroscopy
Christopher Rowlands Developing algorithms to sculpt light in 3D
Christopher Rowlands Diagnosing Disease with Speedy-Scanning Raman Readout
Christopher Rowlands Drugs on Demand - towards an automated synthesis platform
Christopher Rowlands Dynamic Dichroic Mirrors - making reprogrammable optical filters for stand-off chemical imaging‌
Christopher Rowlands High-precision LEGO photonics
Christopher Rowlands Making a true 3D camera
Christopher Rowlands Next-Generation Drug Synthesis: Optimizing bioreactors with lasers
Christopher Rowlands Speedy Spectroscopy - investigating new ways to speed up vibrational spectroscopy‌
Christopher Rowlands Towards a Raman-Activated Cell Sorting system for cancer screening
Christopher Rowlands Virtually Microscopic - building a virtual-reality interface to complex microscopic data‌
Christopher Rowlands Watching Sound - creating a new technique for stand-off ultrasound imaging
Christopher Rowlands World's Fastest Video Camera
Claire Stanley Development of microfluidic technologies for biological research
David Labonte AntGate: A colony door which selects for ant size
David Labonte Design of an Actively Powered Omni Directional Insect Treadmill
David Labonte Development of a muscle-fibre tracking algorithm
David Labonte FrankenInsects: Building an open-source and portable device for targeted insect muscle stimulation‌
David Labonte Going out on a limb: How do insects actively lose their limbs
David Labonte ‌Markerless pose estimation to study the locomotion of load-carrying leaf cutter ‌ants
David Labonte Markerless pose-estimation to study the effects of leg loss on insect locomotion
David Labonte The metabolic costs of insect herbivory
Jimmy Moore  ‌Drug mass transport in the interstitium
Jimmy Moore Lymph Node Implant for Breast Cancer-Related Lymphoedema
Jimmy Moore MRI phantom to enable imaging of lymphatic vessels
Joseph van-Batenburg Sherwood Experimentally modelling the interactions between red blood cells and endothelia‌ cells in disease
Joseph van-Batenburg Sherwood Technical advancements to a low-cost, high-performance ventilator
Julien Vermot Lowering costs of super-resolution imaging by developing expansion microscopy
Julien Vermot ‌Machine learning for 3D segmentation of large datasets to detect normal and pathological hearts‌
Majid Taghavi Electric artificial muscle for wearable robotics
Majid Taghavi Interactive robotic skin
Majid Taghavi Multimodal haptic device
Majid Taghavi Origami muscle
Majid Taghavi Soft-rigid hybrid robotic material
Martyn Boutelle Microfabricated multimodality probes for minimally invasive monitoring the brain‌
Mengxing Tang  Functional imaging using ultrafast and super-resolution ultrasound
Molly Stevens Developing innovative biomaterials for regenerative medicine, advanced therapeut‌ics and biosensing
Reiko Tanaka Automatic quantification of fungal burdens in histology images using deep neural‌ networks‌
Reiko Tanaka Computational design of antifungal drug treatment schedules
Reiko Tanaka ‌Development of automated evaluation tool for clinical signs of atopic dermatitis using machine learning analysis
Reiko Tanaka Development of computational tools to predict the occurrence of eczema using machine learning methods‌
Reiko Tanaka Learning from noisy labels by EczemaNet
Reiko Tanaka Mathematical modelling of filamentous fungal growth in vivo
Reiko Tanaka Mechanistically inspired non-linear mixed effects models of invasive fungal infections
Reiko Tanaka Removing skin colour bias in eczema severity scoring using image-to-image translation‌
Reiko Tanaka Systems biology approach for cancer immunotherapy: Dynamical mechanisms to turn "cold" tumours into "hot" tumours‌
Reiko Tanaka Systems biology approach for mechanistic understanding of paediatric asthma exacerbations
Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro Deciphering the codon usage code and its role in metabolism with applications in synthetic biology‌
Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering for microbial biotechnology and bioengineering‌
Rylie Green A bioelectronic implant for cancer treatment
Rylie Green Biofunctionalising electrodes through conductive hydrogel coatings
Rylie Green Conducting polymer nanowire and graphene based transistors on paper and PDMS for‌ ultradense ECoG (Electrocorticography) arrays‌‌
Rylie Green Fabrication of hybrid electrodes and hydrogels from conductive polymer nanowires, graphene and carbon nanotubes on PDMS for non-invasive imaging‌‌
Rylie Green Injectable brain machine interfaces
Rylie Green Living Bionics: Stimulation to drive neural network development
Rylie Green Living electrodes: Adhering cells through biotinylation
Rylie Green Living electrode-on-a-chip development of microphysiological models to study bioelectronic interfaces in vitro‌‌‌‌‌
Rylie Green Neonatal EEG Electrode Cap
Rylie Green Printing of flexible polymer bioelectronics
Rylie Green Spinal cord bridge
Simon Schultz Assessing the effect of Dopamine on mutual information of Perceptuo-Motor Coupli‌‌ng in humans via transcranial magnetic stimulation‌‌
Simon Schultz Mapping amyloid plaques in whole brains using serial section two photon tomography‌
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