The Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering (GSBmE) is recognised as the pre-eminent biomedical engineering school in Australia and is internationally renowned for excellence in research. The primary research activities within GSBmE fall into two core areas:
- Bionics, Biomonitoring & Modelling
- Biomaterials and tissue engineering
Laboratories associated with the School are further involved in a wide range of biomedical engineering activities, covering biomechanics, orthopaedics, , biomathematical modelling, laser micro-manufacturing, bioinstrumentation, electronic chip design, wireless sensor networks, two-photon microscopy, neurophysiology, electrophysiology, and in vitro and in vivo experimentation.
The School's in-house research has an emphasis on health care delivery. Our staff cooperate with clinicians and other associates at various Sydney hospitals (e.g. Prince of Wales, Royal North Shore, St George, St Vincent's, and Westmead), as well as teaching hospitals in other states.
The major therapeutic objectives are:
- to obtain increased knowledge of both healthy systems and failing organs to aid preventative medical care and future device development
- to improve the quality of patient treatment by design and evaluation of alternative treatment modalities
- to reduce costs of health care delivery without compromising treatment efficiency.