WELMEC

Centre of Excellence in Medical Engineering

As we age, our musculoskeletal and cardiovascular systems degenerate, impairing our mobility, ability to work and quality of life. Yet our expectations for health, activity and wellbeing in the second 50 years of life are increasing.

Funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, WELMEC Centre of Excellence in Medical Engineering is developing new ways to extend human joint and cardiovascular health, and so improve quality of life, for ‘50 active years after 50’®. We research, develop and deliver to patients new types of intervention for the musculoskeletal and cardiovascular systems. Details of the clinical innovation challenges we are addressing, and the associated research themes through which we will deliver these are described on the research page.

Medical engineering pioneers’ Royal prize

Longer-lasting hip joints, replacement heart valves and knee reconstructions – technologies all developed at the University of Leeds – have won the Royal seal of approval. Two decades of world-leading medical engineering research and impact have been rewarded with the Queen's Anniversary Prize, which is the country's highest accolade for an academic institution. The Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (IMBE) at Leeds was named today as a winner in the prizes, which will be presented by the Queen in February.  READ MORE

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