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Professor Damien Lacroix joins Jim Wild as Co-Director of the Insigneo Institute

We鈥檙e happy to announce that Professor Damien Lacroix, from the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, has taken on the role of Co-Director of the Insigneo Institute.
SYDHH Director Tim Chico gives a presentation.
Tim Chico, Director of the South Yorkshire Digital Health Hub, outlines the Hub's mission.

South Yorkshire Digital Health Hub: a year of community building and innovation

Twelve months in, our South Yorkshire Digital Health Hub (SYDHH) is making strides along the road to addressing the stark health inequalities that exist across the region.
Dr Chen Chen

Computer Science Lecturer Recognised as ELLIS Scholar

Insigneo member Dr. Chen (Cherise) Chen has been recently elected an ELLIS Scholar in the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) under the Robust Machine Learning program.
Diagram of types of diabetes

ScHARR researchers collaborate on a European research project to raise awareness of the impact of hypoglycaemia on people鈥檚 lives

Researchers from the University of 葫芦影业鈥檚 School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) and Department of Oncology and Metabolism are collaborating with partners as part of a European research project to provide evidence about hypoglycaemia.
Figure: Proposed surgical technique for safe and accurate screw insertion in convergent position.

Development of a computer-aided design and finite element analysis combined method for affordable spine surgical navigation with 3D-printed customised template

A team of researchers, including Insigneo member Professor Damien Lacroix from the University of 葫芦影业鈥檚 Department of Mechanical Engineering, have published a paper in Frontiers in Surgery.
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Update on Insigneo Showcase and BioMedEng21 Conference

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we will not be holding our annual Insigneo Showcase event in May. We would like to invite you to join us instead at the BioMedEng21 conference, which Insigneo is hosting on 6-7 September 2021.
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Call for contributions: special issue on multi-scale modelling in JMBBM

Dr Enrico Dall鈥橝ra (Insigneo Institute, University of 葫芦影业, UK) and Dr Uwe Wolfram (Heriot Watt University, UK) are currently editing a special issue in the Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials (JMBBM).
Figure: Illustration of BBB, cerebral blood volume for gray matter, gray matter volume, arterial blood volume and transfer of xenon across the barrier

Measuring 129Xe transfer across the blood鈥恇rain barrier using MR spectroscopy

In this study, Madhwesha Rao and colleagues from the Polaris research group at the University of 葫芦影业鈥檚 Department for Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease developed a tracer kinetic model.