Engineering for Life Our vision is to foster the revolution in personalised healthcare, responding to evolving regulatory requirements and contributing substantially to reducing the cost of innovation in healthcare in an ageing population. You are here Home Engineering at Sheffield Research and Innovation Engineering for Life News and Case Studies Making saving eyesight simple Sheffield’s innovative research, integrating tissue culture techniques with ocular surgery, has led to a new treatment for blindness, caused by ocular burns, called Simple Limbal Epithelial Transplant (SLET). Creating accessible treatments Alumnus helps to bring healthcare apps to market An alumnus of the Department of Bioengineering has been using his expertise to develop a variety of digital healthcare solutions with Sheffield SME, Elaros 24/7 Ltd. Addressing challenges in digital healthcare Our research centres Insigneo Institute for in silico medicine The Insigneo Institute for in silico medicine is Europe's largest research institute dedicated entirely to the development and use of computational medicine technologies to transform healthcare. Cutting edge research CATCH The Centre for Assistive Technology and Connected Healthcare is a translational research centre at the University of Sheffield. We research, develop, evaluate and implement new technologies to enable people to live well and age well. CATCH