Panel for Biomedical Engineering

Publications

Briefing Papers

The Royal Academy of Engineering publishes regular briefing papers on a range of topics. These papers provide information, analysis and key policy recommendations on science, engineering and innovation policy issues, specifically within the biomedical engineering discipline. To view a briefing paper, click on one of the links below.

• Designing cost-effective care for older people: how technology can make a difference (May 2012) (2255KB)

• Engineering for Health (March 2011) (151KB)

• Ageing Population (March 2011) (130KB)

• Cardiac Implantable Devices (March 2011) (148KB)

• Joint Replacement (March 2011) (150KB)

• m-Health (March 2011) (139KB)

• Neural Engineering (March 2011) (146KB)

• Regenerative Medicine (March 2011) (162KB)

• Simulation and Medical Training (March 2011) (157KB)

• Surgical Innovation (March 2011) (142KB)

Recent Reports

• Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) report on Smart technology for healthy longevity

• Personalised Medicine: the challenge for biomedical engineering (109KB)

• The Ageing Population: Challenges for Engineering (90KB)

• First Degrees in Medical Engineering: a positive step for engineering? (185KB)

• Systems Biology: a vision for engineering and medicine (127KB)

• The Japanese Approach to Tissue Engineering (342KB)

Lecture Transcripts

• Systems Biology and Medicine: from reactive to predictive, personalized, preventative and participatory medicine (590KB)
  Dr Leroy Hood, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle (November 2007)

• The New World of Health Work (181KB)
  Neil Jordan, Worldwide Executive Director, Microsoft Healthcare Industry (November 2006)

• Innovation in Medical Technology - Global Reality and UK Promise (1067KB)
  Sir Christopher O'Donnell, Chief Executive, Smith & Nephew plc (November 2005)  

• Engineering, the Double Helix and the Genome (904KB)
  Professor R.I.Kitney OBE FREng (April 2003)  

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