For us, it’s all about overcoming the big challenges – the ones that matter most. They drive our research and, quite frankly, get us into work every morning. We want to help patients with spinal injuries walk again. We want people to avoid stroke and paralysis. We want to hold back the visual deterioration that comes with age. We want to help cure cancer.

Based at University College London, we bring together leading researchers to develop digital and medical technologies that transform lives across the globe.

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Rebecca Shipley 0:01
Healthcare engineering is really about bringing together maths and science to develop the next generation of technologies which will improve people's lives across the globe.

Dam Stoyanov 0:09
We're working at the bleeding edge of technology that's going to advance health care.

Geoff Parker 0:13
The reason that we exist as researchers in this area is to answer big questions. And those questions come from our technical colleagues. Their problems that we need to solve as engineers,

Ann Blandford 0:23
Digital is really central to this area. Now, because almost no health care is delivered without being digitally enabled.

James Philliips 0:30
We can draw on a lot of different technologies and combine them in ways that perhaps weren't possible previously.

Joe Jacobs 0:36
Collaboration between engineering and clinicians is absolutely essential because for clinicians, we just don't know how to interrogate the huge amount of data we have in the best possible way. And for engineers, we give them a stare on what clinical questions are going to be the most important to investigate.

Nigel Titchener-Hooker 0:51
Lots of people talk about the discoveries in the medical sciences and life sciences, but I think the key thing they miss one of them is the translation of those discoveries into practical outcomes is absolutely crucial.

Ashish Suri 1:03
When you're working in a single place like in India or in UK, you are only seeing those problems which are there in the country. But when you're going to other places, you see more problems and you can make solutions which are for the global solutions.