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Modelling Methods for Medical
Engineering
OPENING
MEETING
2.00pm Friday 18 April 2008
North Staffordshire Medical Institute
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Introduction
Welcome.
Keele has been awarded a 3 year EPSRC
“Bridging the Gaps” grant of £285,272
to support the 3ME Initiative, which
brings together broad research groups
from:
• Mathematics,
• Geophysics, and
• Bioengineering
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EPSRC BTG Objectives:
• “Initiate new, long-term collaborations between
researchers across the EPSRC remit
• Stimulate innovative approaches to collaboration
between disciplines
• Increase the cross-fertilisation of ideas and the
take up of advances across the boundaries
between disciplines.
=> A ‘people-based’ programme of activities that
will stimulate creative thinking to develop a
multidisciplinary working environment; it is not
aimed at supporting research projects.”
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EPSRC BTG Projects
First round BTG projects are running at:
• Bath, Bristol, Heriot-Watt & Edinburgh,
Loughborough, Nottingham, Sheffield,
Strathclyde.
Second round BTG projects are starting at:
• Birmingham, Cambridge, Keele, QMCL, Reading,
Southampton, UCL, York
EPSRC will be monitoring the long-term added value
of investing in BTG: eg joint publications,
international profile, successful grant applications
to Research Councils, European Commission.
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3ME Specific Objectives:
“1. Create an interdisciplinary environment
and culture that enables Keele
researchers to work together in small
groups on new common interest areas
2. Host international senior research
visitors to enhance the research skills of
Keele and the UK's capability in medical
engineering
3. Invest to start up new key collaborative
medical engineering projects.”
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Biomedical Perspective
Biomedical Engineering – “a new frontier”.
Expertise: orthopaedics, medical physics, bioengineering and tissue engineering
Eg: 3D tissue engineering in in vitro bioreactors
and in vivo systems, fluid-structure
interaction in the lung, stem cell delivery, etc
Beneficiaries: patients, clinicians/NHS,
industry, future of UK engineering
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Geophysics Perspective
1.
Expertise in: geophysical signal processing, image
processing, electrical, electromagnetic, ultrasonic and
seismic imaging. Clustered supercomputing and modelling
of the above potentials. Data acquisition of many types.
1.
On-going interactions: Tsunamis, multi-component surface
wave propagation and dispersion for structural
information. Micro-CT imaging of geological material
(fossil, mineral)
2.
Interested in: Electromagnetic and ultrasonic
interferometry. Integrated inversion of combined data
sets, ie ultrasonics and electromagnetic. Development of
innovative instrumentation. The use of non-invasive
passive noise imaging of various kinds.
Immersive, interactive 3-d visualisation
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Mathematics Perspective
Relevant expertise:
Continuum Mechanics, Fluids and
solids; Fluid Structure Interaction. Waves in Fluids, Solids
and Structures. Anisotropy and pre-stress.
On-going interactions (Including discussion)
Modelling of stem cell delivery via circulation, Wave
propagation in arterial walls, Tsunamis, Dispersion in layered
media. Tissue Engineering, Modelling of Aneurysms.
What are we looking for?
Interesting Joint
projects, Joint PhD Students and MONEY.
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How Bridging the Gaps
works – what’s on offer?
- "Researcher in Residence" posts or pairings of
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staff (over £100,000 “buy-out” funds available)
start-up grants (total over £50,000 available)
resulting from two "sandpit" discussion meetings
Research Retreat
Regular "Back-to-Back Seminars"
International Speakers coming to Keele
Training Courses and Summer Schools for
research students
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How Bridging the Gaps
works – what’s needed?
- Ideas from everyone taking part – for:
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collaborations, pairings, exchanges
joint projects … and publications,
visiting international speakers,
seminar topics and speakers,
training courses and events,
industrial or other user involvement.
The initiative has a lot of flexibility in
how we use the EPSRC funds.
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How Bridging the Gaps
works – key mechanisms 1
- People: "Researcher in Residence“: one or two
researchers immerse themselves in a different
research culture. We have approx 3 x 5 months
full time funding available to pay for “buy-out”.
- Stuff: The two planned "sandpit" discussion
meetings will each reward a project put
forward, value at about £20-25,000 each.
- Time & Space: A residential Research Retreat
over several days. Project Scoping meetings
and sandpits.
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How Bridging the Gaps
works – key mechanisms 2
- Gatherings: Regular "Back-to-Back
Seminars“, two 40 minute perspectives on
a similar topic.
- Focus: invited international visitors to
Keele for about 2 weeks each – input to
many activities while they’re here.
- Outputs: eg a Training Course or Summer
School for research students,
publications, grant applications …
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3 M E Initiative detailed work plan
Year
Researchers in
Milestones
Residence
Month
Back-toBack
Seminar
Program
me
Initial
Meeting,
Visiting
Worksho
Senior
ps,
Research
dissemm
Fellow s
ination
activities
Sandpit
meetings Pumpand
primed
Research projects
Retreat
Steering
Group
Actions, notes
meetings
Speed
Call for
dating
VF
and
Proposals Pairing
Meeting
Call for general
sandpit ideas
Steering
Gp
Plan Seminar Programme, organise fi
Meeting 1
Notificatio
n of
EPSRC
grant
November
December
Publicise
2008 January new
Initiative
February
October
1 Project
start
March
Call for R in R
proposals
3ME
seminar 1
April
Seek
industrial
Problem
sponsors
Scoping
for
Workshop
Retreat
1
Science
Learning
Centre
Event?
Sandpit
Meeting 1
May
June
3ME
seminar 2
July
August
September
R in R 1*
October
10 mths
Steering
Gp
Decide VFs, organise research retrea
Meeting 2
Project 1
3ME
seminar 3
£25,000
November
December
3ME
seminar 4
2009 January
February
March
R in R 2 *
Project
year 2
5 mths
3ME
seminar 5
April
May
Visiting
Fellow 1
(tba) 14
days
Steering
Gp
Review Seminar Programme
Meeting 3
Problem
Scoping
Workshop
2
Research
Retreat, 4
days for
~30
Report on
Research
Retreat
June
3ME
seminar 6
July
Sandpit
Meeting 2
August
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3ME Contacts
3ME Project Leaders: Alicia El Haj,
Jon Dobson, Graham Rogerson,
Peter Styles
3ME Administrator: Paula Marsh
• mail [email protected]
• phone 01782 554253.
3ME Website:
www.keele.ac.uk/research/3me
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“Meet & Eat”
We have 12 tables, 12 different dishes
to try, 2 chairs … and 2 minutes!
Please move around the room so you
meet everyone on your card.
Even if you’ve met already, spend a
minute outlining your research and
how you want to benefit from 3ME.
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Group Feedback Session
Four groups, A to D, and a flip chart.
Feed back:
• Common ideas or problems to tackle?
• Suggestions for 3ME activities,
events, speakers, outputs?
• Questions?
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What happens next…?
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Seminar Programme
Researcher in Residence proposals
First Sandpit meeting and proposals
Invitations for international visitors
Workshops
Planning Retreat
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3ME Contacts
3ME Project Leaders: Alicia El Haj,
Jon Dobson, Graham Rogerson,
Peter Styles
3ME Administrator: Paula Marsh
• mail [email protected]
• phone 01782 554253.
3ME Website:
www.keele.ac.uk/research/3me
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