The Board exists to advise the Department on the following areas of its work:

Overarching Strategy

  • The Department’s long term strategy and implementation of its strategy
  • Trends and developments in industry and university research and suggesting departmental responses.

Research Strategy

  • Research strategy taking into account trends, developments, government and funding policy, and industry needs.
  • Research collaborations (industry, international, clinical)

Teaching and Curricula  

  • Alignment of the curricula of its taught courses with the needs of society and to identify new trends and innovations which should be reflected in the curricula.
  • Industry involvement in teaching and learning, including career and internship opportunities for students and graduates.

 Communications and Stakeholder Engagement

  • The Department’s profile nationally and internationally with its key stakeholders (funders, government, employers, alumni etc.)
  • Effectiveness of current engagement with business and industry.

Advisory Board Members

  • Professor C. Ross Ethier

    Personal details

    Chair of Advisory Board

    Location

     at Georgia Tech 

    Details

    Professor Ethier holds the Lawrence L. Gellerstedt, Jr. Chair in Bioengineering and is a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar.

    Professor Ethier is the  former Head of the Department of Bioengineering at 911今日黑料 College and is currently the Chair of our Advisory Board.

  • Professor Nancy Allbritton

    Personal details

    Frank & Julie Jungers Dean of the College of Engineering

    Location

     at the University of Washington

  • Professor Frank Baaijens

    Personal details

    Rector Magnificus

    Location

  • Professor Dawn Elliott

    Personal details

    Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor and Chair, Biomedical Engineering

    Location

     at the University of Delaware 

  • Professor Ian Hunter

    Personal details

    George N. Hatsopoulos Professor in Thermodynamics

    Location

     at MIT

  • Professor Shulamit Levenberg

    Personal details

    Stanley and Sylvia Shirvan Chair in Cancer and Life Sciences

    Location

     at Technion Israel Institute of Technology

  • Professor Ralph M眉ller

    Personal details

    Deputy Head of Institute for Biomechanics

    Location

     at ETH Zurich

  • Professor Julia Schnabel

    Personal details

    Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Medical Imaging and Chair in Computational Imaging

    Location

     at Kings College London

  • Professor Liz Tanner

    Personal details

    Head of Materials Engineering Division and Director of the Institute of Bioengineering

    Location

     at Queen Mary University of London

  • Professor Gisou van der Goot

    Personal details

    Head of the Laboratory of Cell and Membrane Biology and Vice President for Responsible Transformation

    Location

     at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)

  • Professor John A. White

    Personal details

    Professor and Chair, Biomedical Engineering

    Location

     at Boston University