Our Expertise: Current Research Themes
Advanced Healthcare Materials
- Simple wipe to a complex composite structure for bone replacement
- Areas of application:
- Implantable materials/tissue engineering
- Non-implantable materials
- Healthcare environment materials
- Material manufacture and characterisation
Cell Biology
- Human skin cell culture models (epidermal, dermal and hair follicle ex vivo cultures)
- Wound healing and tissue regeneration
- Skin disease models
- Product development
Bio-metrology
- Surface measurement and characterisation
- Force and pressure measurement
- Tribology
- Interface characterisation
- Finite Element Modelling
- General Measurement
Data Analytics
- Randomised controlled trials and other comparative studies
- Epidemiological, Longitudinal and Multistage studies
- Multicentre studies and other studies with data clustering
- Studies with multiple outcomes
- Meta analysis
Tissue Viability
- Wound dressing and device clinical evaluations
- Health related quality of life outcomes
- Collaboration with multi disciplinary health care professionals
- Education, from masterclasses through bespoke study days to Master's programmes.
Infection Prevention
- Antiseptic/antibiotic therapies and efficacy
- Antimicrobial wound dressings and microorganisms interaction
- Biofilm formation, characterisation, removal and eradication
- Wound microbiology
- Investigation of wound isolates