The Board exists to advise the Department on the following areas of its work:
Overarching Strategy
- The Department’s long term strategy and implementation of its strategy
- Trends and developments in industry and university research and suggesting departmental responses.
Research Strategy
- Research strategy taking into account trends, developments, government and funding policy, and industry needs.
- Research collaborations (industry, international, clinical)
Teaching and Curricula
- Alignment of the curricula of its taught courses with the needs of society and to identify new trends and innovations which should be reflected in the curricula.
- Industry involvement in teaching and learning, including career and internship opportunities for students and graduates.
Communications and Stakeholder Engagement
- The Department’s profile nationally and internationally with its key stakeholders (funders, government, employers, alumni etc.)
- Effectiveness of current engagement with business and industry.
Advisory Board Members
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Professor C. Ross Ethier
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Wallace H. Coulter Department of Bioengineering at Georgia Tech
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Professor Ethier holds the Lawrence L. Gellerstedt, Jr. Chair in Bioengineering and is a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar.
Professor Ethier is the former Head of the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College and is currently the Chair of our Advisory Board.
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Professor Nancy Allbritton
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Professor Nancy Allbritton Frank & Julie Jungers Dean of the College of EngineeringLocation
College of Engineering & UW Medicine at the University of Washington
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Professor Frank Baaijens
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Professor Dawn Elliott
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Professor Dawn Elliott Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor and Chair, Biomedical EngineeringLocation
Biomedical Engineering at the University of Delaware
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Professor Ian Hunter
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Professor Shulamit Levenberg
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Professor Shulamit Levenberg Stanley and Sylvia Shirvan Chair in Cancer and Life SciencesLocation
Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at Technion Israel Institute of Technology
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Professor Ralph Müller
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Institute for Biomechanics at ETH Zurich
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Professor Julia Schnabel
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Professor Julia Schnabel Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Medical Imaging and Chair in Computational ImagingLocation
School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences at Kings College London
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Professor Liz Tanner
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Professor Liz Tanner Head of Materials Engineering Division and Director of the Institute of BioengineeringLocation
School of Engineering and Materials Science at Queen Mary University of London
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Professor Gisou van der Goot
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Professor Gisou van der Goot Head of the Laboratory of Cell and Membrane Biology and Vice President for Responsible TransformationLocation
School of Life Sciences at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
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Professor John A. White
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College of Engineering at Boston University