SofTMech

 

 

SofTMech is a large and established Centre of Mathematics for Healthcare, with primary support from the EPSRC since 2016.  Our Centre consists of multiple academic, clinical and industrial partners and combines extensive expertise in mathematical, statistical and computational modelling of cardiac and cancer physiology and disease.  We have developed a range of novel mulltiscale mathematical models and statistical inference techniques applicable to heart conditions, diseases, cancer and beyond, including patient-specific medical device optimisation and modelling diseases in the human retina. Details of our grants, funding opportunities and partners are available from the menu

 

 

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Training the Leaders of Tomorrow

Newsround

  • 07 Sep

    SofTMech head to Vienna

    A number of the SofTMech group head to Vienna in September 2023. First Sathish Kumar a PhD Student jointly funded by SofTMech and Terumo Aortic is going the the Summer School at Graz University from the 11th to 15th September. Then Jakub Kory, one of SofTMechMP's Research Associates is presenting his work at the International Conference on Computational Bioengineering (ICCB) from the 19th to 22nd September. Also presenting at the conference is PhD student Alejandro Roque-Piedra. Read on ......
  • 23 Aug

    CardiARC Zone

    As part of the ARCADIA festival SofTMech presented the CardiARC Zone on the 17th September 12.00 - 15.00 in the new Advanced Research Centre at the University of Glasgow.(ARC). We ran some fun competitions to test knowledge of the heart. Our Virtual Reality (VR) tours of the heart in the ARC's VR suite proved very popular and we we were sold out; full report....
  • 15 Jun

    British Heart Foundation Award

    A team of researchers from the SofTMech Centre has been awarded a three-year British Heart Foundation project grant on “A modelling study of right ventricular function in repaired tetralogy of fallot for predicting outcome and impact of pulmonary valve replacement” read more ......
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Optimizing Cardio-Mechanic Models for Diagnosis and Treatment of Heart Disease Optimizing Cardio-Mechanic Models for Diagnosis and Treatment of Heart Disease

Optimizing Cardio-Mechanic Models for Diagnosis and Treatment of Heart Disease

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Cell Focus

Optimizing Cardio-Mechanic Models for Diagnosis and Treatment of Heart Disease

Soft Tissue Workshop 7-9 June 2023

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TACKLING COVID-19

  • 23 May

    Cardiac Imaging in SARS Coronavirus disease-19 (CISCO-19) published in Nature

    Cardiac Imaging in SARS Coronavirus disease-19 (CISCO-19) published in Nature. The project was awarded £47,940 in the Chief Scientist Office Rapid Research in Covid-19 (RARC-19) funding call to lead a project to investigate Cardiac Imaging in SARS Coronavirus disease-19 (CISCO-19) read more .........
  • 12 Oct

    IAA COVID Project Award for Xiaoyu Luo

    Xiaoyu Luo has been successful in the recent EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) managed by College of Science and Engineering (IAA call) with the project "Cardiac endotypes in COVID-19: quantification and mechanisms of cardiac injury". The project team is Xiaoyu Luo, Colin Berry, Kenneth Magnion, Nick Hill, Dirk Husmeier, Hao Gao and Scott Richardson.
  • 08 Jul

    BHF-NIHR partnership set to fast-track coronavirus research

    BHF have joined forces with the National Institute of Health research (NIHR) to launch a nationwide research initiative to better understand why people with heart and circulatory diseases are at higher risk and often suffer more severely with coronavirus (Covid-19) see more
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