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Interview with Professor Enrico Dall'Ara: AI and Biomechanics in METASTRA

An interview with our Research Theme Director for Computational Modelling in Medicine, Professor Enrico Dall'Ara, about his team's work developing advanced computational models to help clinicians assess fracture risk for patients with cancer.

Published by the METASTRA project.
A 3D tomography image of PP mesh
The University of Sheffield-led study found PP mesh fibres became stiffer and showed signs of degradation 60 days after implantation, as seen in this 3D tomography image.

Vaginal mesh scandal: new evidence reveals further failings

New evidence of the failings of the material at the centre of the vaginal mesh scandal has been revealed by a major study by researchers at the University of Sheffield, led by Insigneo member Dr Nicholas Farr.
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BSCI BSCCT Annual Scientific Meeting 2024 hosted in Sheffield

The British Society of Cardiovascular Imaging (BSCI) British Society of Cardiac Computed Tomography (BSCCT) Annual Scientific Meeting for 2024 was held on 19 - 20 September in the Mercure St Paul’s Hotel Sheffield.

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ScHARR researchers collaborate on a European research project to raise awareness of the impact of hypoglycaemia on people’s lives

Researchers from the University of Sheffield’s School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) and Department of Oncology and Metabolism are collaborating with partners as part of a European research project to provide evidence about hypoglycaemia.
Figure: Proposed surgical technique for safe and accurate screw insertion in convergent position.

Development of a computer-aided design and finite element analysis combined method for affordable spine surgical navigation with 3D-printed customised template

A team of researchers, including Insigneo member Professor Damien Lacroix from the University of Sheffield’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, have published a paper in Frontiers in Surgery.
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Update on Insigneo Showcase and BioMedEng21 Conference

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we will not be holding our annual Insigneo Showcase event in May. We would like to invite you to join us instead at the BioMedEng21 conference, which Insigneo is hosting on 6-7 September 2021.
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Call for contributions: special issue on multi-scale modelling in JMBBM

Dr Enrico Dall’Ara (Insigneo Institute, University of Sheffield, UK) and Dr Uwe Wolfram (Heriot Watt University, UK) are currently editing a special issue in the Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials (JMBBM).
Figure: Illustration of BBB, cerebral blood volume for gray matter, gray matter volume, arterial blood volume and transfer of xenon across the barrier

Measuring 129Xe transfer across the blood‐brain barrier using MR spectroscopy

In this study, Madhwesha Rao and colleagues from the Polaris research group at the University of Sheffield’s Department for Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease developed a tracer kinetic model.