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Australia
Centre for Neural Engineering, The University of Melbourne
Contact: Jonathan Manton, Professor
BME Specialties: Neural Engineering, Signal Processing for Auditory/Visual Pathways, Neural Networks
Fellows or Scholars? Both
Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation (Queensland University of Technology)
Contact: Clayton Adam, Associate Professor
BME Specialties: Orthopaedic biomechanics, Musculoskeletal bioengineering, Bone and Cartilage Tissue Engineering
Fellows or Scholars? Both
Vision CRC Australia - Institute for Eye Research
Contact: Eric Papas, Director of Postgraduate Studies
BME Specialties: Research and Development
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum and Current Grantees: Stephanie Delgado
Belgium
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Contact: Jenneifer Patterson, Assistant Professor (former Whitaker Grantee)
Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering
BME Specialties: Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Brazil
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Contact: Estevam Barbosa de Las Casas, Department of Structural Engineering
BME Specialties: Dental Biomechanics, New Devices for Speech Language Pathologies,
Solid Mechanics and Orthopedics
Fellows or Scholars? Both
France
Ecole Polytechnique (Paris)
Contact: Abdul Barakat, Professor
BME Specialties: Bioengineering; Biofluid Mechanics and Transport; Cardiovascular Cellular Engineering
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Grenoble Institute of Technology/ MINATEC (GRENOBLE)
Contact: Catherine Picart, Full Professor and Group Leader
BME Specialties: Bioengineering; Biophysics; (Nano) Biomaterials; Tissue engineering
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum and Current Grantees: Jorge Almodovar
Institut Curie
Contact: Matthieu Piel, Team Leader, Department of Subcellular Structure and Cellular Dynamics,
Systems Biology of Cell Division and Cell Polarity
BME Specialties: Micro-fabrication for cell biology, including micro-fluids and micro-patterning, biomechanics
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Universite Paris-Sud 11 (Nano Bio Photonics)
Contact: Niko Hildebrandt, Professor
BME Specialties: FRET, biosensing, live cell imaging, time-resolved miscroscopy,
in vitro diagnostics, quantum dots
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Germany
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
Contact: Francois Nedelec
BME Specialties: Mathematical modelling in cell biology, biomechanics, cell division
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Fraunhofer IAP (Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Contact: Joerg Lahann, Co-Director of the Institute for Functional Interfaces at KIT
BME Specialties: Advanced Polymers and Biomaterials
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Universität Heidelberg
Contact: Dr. Joachim Gerke
BME Specialties: Clinical engineering, Medical Imaging, Biomedical Optics, Organic Electronics, Scientific Computing and Radiotherapy
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Ireland
Centre for Applied Biomedical Engineering Research (CABER), University of Limerick
Contact: Tim McGloughlin, Professor and Director
BME Specialties: Computational and experimental modelling of vascular systems, vascular flows, aneurysm modelling and treatment
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Network of Excellence for Functional Biomaterials, National University of Ireland, Galway
Contact: Abhay Pandit, Professor and Director
BME Specialties: Functional Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering, Nanotechnology, Bio-polymers, Drug and Gene Delivery,
Soft Tissue Repair/Regeneration, Biomaterials in Orthopedic and Neural Applications
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Italy
Italian Institute of Technology
Contact: Pietro Morasso, Senior Scientist
BME Specialties: Neural control of movement; motor learning; neuromotor rehabilitation; robot training
Fellows or Scholars?: Both, at least 12 months stay
Alum and Current Grantees: Devjani Saha
The Netherlands
University of Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center
Contact: Prof. Ton G van Leeuwen, Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering & Physics
BME Specialties: Biomedical optics: Vascular Physics, Cardiovascular Hemodynamics, Biomedical and Forensic Photonics,
Medical Imaging, and Image Analysis
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Eindhoven University of Technology, Institute of Complex Molecular Systems
Alum and Current Grantees: Zenith Acosta Torres
South Africa
University of Cape Town
Contact: Neil Davies, Head Biological Sciences, Cardiovascular Research Unit
BME Specialties: Cardiovascular Biology
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum and Current Grantees: Renee Miller
Contact: Dr. Tania Douglas, Director, Medical Imaging Research Unit; Biomedical Engineering Programme
BME Specialties: Medical Imaging and Image Computing
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum and Current Grantees: Samuel Pickerill
Contact: Thomas Franz, PhD, Head Biomechanical Sciences, Cardiovascular Research Unit
BME Specialties: Cardiovascular Biology
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum and Current Grantees: Michelle Sun
Spain
Instituto de Neurociencias, UMH-CSIC
Contact: Miguel Maravall, Ph.D., CSIC Staff Scientist
BME Specialties: Neural coding; Neural probes for recording and stimulation; fMRI; Deep brain simulation; Brain plasticity; Sensory transduction;
Computational modelling of sensory pathways
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
University of Oviedo
Contact: Juan Cobo Plana, University Clinic of Dentistry
BME Specialties: Biomaterials, Regenerative Medicine Research, Transplants and Implants
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
University of Oviedo
Contact: Pilar de la Pena. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
BME Specialties: Hormone Receptors and Ion Channels
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
University of Oviedo
Contact: Julia Alvarez Guitierrez, Biomedicine and Health Cluster Manager
BME Specialties: The BMH Cluster promotes action in 5 RTD lines at University of Oviedo and
can help students find hosts in i) Genomics and proteomics related with cancer and ageing,
ii) Brain development and degeneration, iii) Biomedicine basic research and drug development,
iv) Regenerative medicine, transplants and implants, v) Food production and food technology.
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Switzerland
EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne)
Contact: Melody Schwartz, Associate Professor
BME Specialties: Bioengineering
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum: Karen Dane, Bill Diplas, Brandon Dixon, Jennifer Munson, Jeffrey Rice, Adrian Shieh, Susan Thomas
ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich)
Contact: Ralph Mueller, Professor
BME Specialties: Biomechanics
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum: Katherine August, Marie Godla, Kathleen Koch, Steven Proulx
Contact: Daniel J. Muller, Professor of Biophysics
BME Specialties: Bionanotechnology, Cell Adhesion and Mechanics
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Biozentrum, University of Basel
Contact: Monika Gessler, Head Scientific Affairs, Biozentrum
BME Specialties: Cell Biology, Neurobiology, Infection Biology, Muscle Biology, Stem Cell Biology
and Organogenesis
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
University Hospital Basel
Contact: Ivan Martin, Professor, Head of Tissue Engineering
BME Specialties: Tissue engineering, specifically bone and cartilaginous tissues
Fellows or Scholars?: Fellows
Alum: Devin Bridgen
United Kingdom
Imperial College, London
Contact: Molly Stevens, Professor of Biomedical Materials and Regenerative Medicine & the Research Director for Biomedical Material Sciences, Institute of Biomedical Engineering
BME Specialties: Biomedial materials and regenerative medicine
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum: Kristy Cloyd, Rekha Nair, Randall Platt, Mark Rocco, Mark Steedman, Hannah Watkins
Contact: Sandra Shefelbine, Lecturer, Department of Bioengineering
BME Specialties: Orthopaedic biomechanics
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Contact: Nick Jones and Mauricio Barahona, Department of Mathematics
BME Specialties: Synthetic and Systems Biology, Biomedical Signal Processing, Network analysis,
Cellular noise and neural processing, Model reduction, Cardio Mathematics, Fluid Phenomena inside tissues
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Contact: Dr. Simon R Schultz, Department of Bioengineering
BME Specialties: Neural Engineering
Fellows or Scholars?: Scholars
Kings College London
Contact: David Nordsletten, Lecturer and Nicolas Smith, Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Imaging Science
BME Specialties: Computational Biomechanics, Fluids and Cardiovascular Imaging
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alumni currently faculty at Kings College: David Nordsletten
Queen's University of Belfast
Contact: Dr. Mathini Sellathurai, Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT)
BME Specialties: Wireless and biomedical signal processing
Fellows or Scholars?: Scholars
University of Cambridge
Contact: Daniel Wolpert, Professor
BME Specialties: Sensorimotor control, engineering
Fellows or Scholars?: Scholars
Alum: Alaa Ahmed
Contact: Karen Lipkow, Cambridge Systems Biology Centre
BME Specialties: Systems Biology, Interplay of Cellular Architecture and Signalling, Mesoscopic Spatial Modelling, Quantitative Microscopy
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
University of Salford
Contact: Dave Howard, Professor and Laurence Kenney, Senior Research Fellow - Centre for Health, Sport and Rehabilitation Sciences
BME Specialties: Gait biomechanics, upper and lower limb prosthetics, functional electrical stimulation
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum: Matthew Major
Worldwide (Honduras, Nicaragua, Rwanda and Tanzania)
Engineering World Health
Contact: Melissa Driver Beard, CEO
BME Specialties: Medical Devices, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, and other engineering disciplines
Fellows or Scholars?: BothMange mænd oplever fra tid til anden problemer med rejsning, hvilket kan have stor betydning for både livskvalitet og selvtillid. Heldigvis findes der moderne og diskrete løsninger, som gør det muligt at handle hurtigt og effektivt. Ét af de mest anvendte præparater er Levitra, der er kendt for sin hurtige virkning og stabile effekt. Flere og flere vælger i dag at køb Levitra online, da det giver mulighed for at modtage behandlingen diskret uden fysisk kontakt med læge eller apotek. Når man bestiller gennem en autoriseret onlineplatform, sikres adgang til ægte medicin med tydelig vejledning og sikker betaling. Denne fleksibilitet er særlig vigtig for dem, der prioriterer anonymitet og ønsker en behandling, der passer ind i en travl hverdag.