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Bioengineering

Bioengineering is where engineering meets medicine by preventing invasive surgery, innovating hi-tech health devices, and enhancing artificial organs. It spans wearable devices, tissue engineering and biomechanics, with career paths to healthcare, pharmaceuticals and scientific research.

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INSIGNEO

The Insigneo Institute for in silico Medicine is Europe’s largest research institute dedicated entirely to the development, validation, and use of in silico medicine technologies.

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CBTE

The main aim of the Centre for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering at the University of Sheffield is to foster multidisciplinary interactions, bringing scientists, engineers and clinicians together.

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Bioengineering at Sheffield ranked 5th in the Guardian University Guide 2023

Bioengineering at Sheffield has been ranked among the best in the UK in the Guardian University Guide 2023, published at the weekend (Saturday 24th September 2022).
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Bioengineering student reaches the final of Global Student Prize

Dimitris Boufidis has beaten almost seven thousand students to become one of fifty finalists in the Chegg.org Global Student Prize, which awards prize money to a student who has made a significant impact on students and society.
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Bioengineering in the top three for student satisfaction

Bioengineering at the University of Sheffield has been ranked in the top three in the Russell Group for student satisfaction.
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PP mesh - the cause of the vaginal mesh scandal - before and after being tested using the new method. The test shows that the PP mesh starts to crack after being tested in conditions similar to inside the human body.

Repeat of vaginal mesh scandal could be prevented by new early warning system

A new way of testing biomaterials that could help to avoid a repeat of the vaginal mesh scandal, has been developed by our researchers.

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Bioengineering
Interdisciplinary Programmes in Engineering (IPE)
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