Engineering for Life Our vision is to foster the revolution in personalised healthcare, responding to evolving regulatory requirements and contributing substantially to reducing the cost of innovation in healthcare in an ageing population. You are here Home Engineering at Sheffield Research and Innovation Engineering for Life News and Case Studies ‘Digital twin’ heart modelling project will monitor patients virtually Sheffield academics from the Faculties of Engineering and Health are part of a team of interdisciplinary researchers who will create and test the first ‘digital twin’ heart models for a group of chronically ill NHS patients Digital twin to monitor heart health New anti-inflammatory foods research aims to prevent chronic age-related diseases Age-related macular diseases could be prevented by enriching foods with anti-inflammatory properties in a new University of Sheffield research project.. Read more Our research centres Insigneo Institute for in silico medicine The Insigneo Institute for in silico medicine is Europe's largest research institute dedicated entirely to the development and use of computational medicine technologies to transform healthcare. Cutting edge research CATCH The Centre for Assistive Technology and Connected Healthcare is a translational research centre at the University of Sheffield. We research, develop, evaluate and implement new technologies to enable people to live well and age well. CATCH