Dr Michael Walsh leads Development of Medical Device to Increase Angioplasty Success Rates
A novel medical device technology to treat narrowed or obstructed blood vessels invented by University of Limerick researchers has been licensed to Galway-based medical devices company, Clada Medical. Developed by biomedical engineers at the University of Limerick the device may enhance success rates in angioplasty procedures. It is estimated that over 1 million angioplasty procedures are undertaken…
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Dr Peter Hoskins visits CABER and presents MSSI lecture
Dr Peter Hoskins (University of Edinburgh), recently been appointed Adjunt Professor of Biomedical Imaging in the Department of Mechanical, Aeronautical and Biomedical Engineering, visited CABER on 3rd and 4th of April.Dr Hoskins presented a lecture at the MSSI Research Forum entitled "From Doppler Ultrasound to Elastography via Patient Specific Modelling"The photograph shows Professor McGloughlin,…
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Professor McGloughlin presents at major CFD meeting in Israel
Professor Tim McGloughlin presented a paper entitled "VASCULAR DEVICE DESIGN AND THE ROLE OF CFD" at the recent conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)in Medicine and Biology in conjunction with the Seventh International Biofluid Mechanics Symposium March 25-30, 2012 Crowne Plaza Dead Sea, Ein Bokek, Israel
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Dr David Hoey joins CABER
Dr David Hoey, recently appointed as Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical, Aeronautical and Biomedical Engineering at UL has joined CABER. Dr Hoey who has just completed a Marie Curie Fellowship at the Jacobs Laboratory at Columbia University and at the O'Brien Laboratory at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, completed his PhD at Trinity College, Dublin in 2008 under the supervision of Professor…
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CABER PhD Graduations
At the recent University of Limerick Conferring, PhD awards were conferred on Dr Maurice Donoghue ( Supervisor Dr Michael Walsh) and Dr Niall Davis (Supervisor Professor Tim McGloughlin). Dr David O'Reilly (Supervisor Dr Michael Walsh) was also awarded a PhD.
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CABER Researcher Rory Mooney presents at TERMIS NA in Houston
CABER PhD Researcher Rory Mooney was selected for a podium presentation at the prestigious TERMIS NA meeting in Houston in early December.His talk entitled "Automated Decellularisation of Extracellular Matrix (ECM) Scaffolds: An in vitro feasibility study" described ground breaking work on scaffold preparation. (co-authors Piterina, Walsh and McGloughlin).
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Dr Barry O’Connell moves to Medtronic
Following 2 years as a Post Doctoral Researcher at CABER, Dr Barry O'Connell has joined the R&D team at Medtronic in Galway.
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3 CABER researchers attain PhDs
Following succesfully defending their PhD theses, CABER researchers Dr Niall Davis, Dr Maurice Donoghue and Dr David O'Reilly were awarded PhDs by the University of Limerick at the recent Exam Board.Dr Davis was supervised by Prof Tim McGloughlin and Drs Donoghue and O'Reilly were supervised by Dr Michael Walsh and all three will be conferred at the Winter Conferring Ceremony in January 2012.
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CABER and GMEDTEC partcipate in ASME SBC Inaugural CFD Challenge Work
Inaugural CFD Challenge Workshophttp://www.asmeconferences.org/SBC2012/InauguralCFDWorkshop.cfmThe GMEDTEC and CABER groups in Ireland that are leading the
experimental arm of the Challenge.
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BioInnovate Fellowships 2012
The Bioinnovate Progamme is now seeking Expressions of Interest for potential candidates for the 2012 Fellowship programmeSee www.bioinnovate.ie
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