LSI Doctoral Training Centres - Medical devices doctoral training centre

在生命科学接口（LSI），一个关键的挑战是如何促进临床医生和技术人员之间的跨学科互动，并提供工程师和科学家，他们可以有效地弥合目前两组之间存在的差距。临床科学的许多新发展从根本上依赖于有效的技术交付手段，对医疗设备的研究尤其如此，其中包括生物材料、组织工程、植入式设备、药物交付和诊断。在联合王国，一直需要为工程师和物理科学家提供机会，让他们在具有适当临床和医疗行业联系的中心内接受生命科学指导和适当的跨学科医疗设备研究培训。英国政府和科学委员会通过技术战略委员会，确定医疗设备是英国当前和未来需求的关键技术领域：融合技术——物理与生物的融合，导致新的和综合的功能。诊断和筛查技术，以及更有针对性的治疗方法的开发和监测。再生医学-诱导身体再生健康功能组织并提供替代部件的方法。辅助技术-帮助康复和支持社区独立生活的设备和技术。我们提议的医疗器械博士培训中心将培训学生并开展临床相关研究，以满足9个核心主题的医疗器械需求，这些主题嵌入了大学与其直接的学术和临床外部合作者的当前研究工作中。这些专业分别是：药物输送、生物成像、骨科设备、微设备、心血管设备、生物材料、组织工程、神经修复、医学诊断。该中心每年至少招收10名学生，其中8名由EPSRC资助，2名由大学资助。

At the Life Sciences Interface (LSI), one of the key challenges is how to foster cross-disciplinary interactions between clinicians and technologists and provide engineers and scientists who can effectively bridge the gap that currently exists between the two groups. Many new developments in the clinical sciences are fundamentally dependent on effective means of technology delivery, and this is particularly true of research into medical devices, which includes biomaterials, tissue engineering, implantable devices, drug delivery and diagnostics. There is an ongoing need in the UK to provide opportunities for engineers and physical scientists to receive instruction in the life sciences and suitable interdisciplinary medical device research training which takes place within a centre which has the appropriate clinical and medical industry links.The UK government and science councils have , through the Technology Strategy Board, identified medical devices as a key technology area for the UK with immediate and future needs in: Converging technologies - convergence of the physical with the biological leading to new and combined functionalities. Diagnosis and screening technologies together with the development and monitoring of more targeted therapies. Regenerative medicine - methods to induce the body to regenerate healthy functional tissue and to provide replacement parts. Assistive technologies - devices and technologies that aid rehabilitation and support for independent life in the community.The Medical Devices Doctoral Training Centre we propose will train students and carry out clinically -relevant research to meet medical device needs across nine core themes which are embedded in the current research work of the University with its immediate academic and clinical external collaborators. These are:Drug deliveryBioimagingOrthopaedic DevicesMicrodevicesCardiovascular DevicesBiomaterialsTissue EngineeringNeuroprostheticsMedical DiagnosticsTen students minimum will be recruited to the centre each year, 8 supported by EPSRC and 2 by the University.