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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Working with us

 

 

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Newsround

  • 12 Jul

    Research Meeting:Wednesdays

    RESEARCH MEETINGS: Normally every second Wednesday. The next research meeting will be on the 25th May; Alan Brown will present his work.
  • 31 Jan

    SofTMech Training Day 28.01.22

    On Friday Jan 28th 2022 The SofTMech Training committee hosted a (virtual) half day training workshop on the theory and practice of the Finite Element Method. To view further details including how to access the recorded talks click here .....
  • 04 May

    5th Soft Tissue Workshop

    The 5th St. Andrews Soft Tissue workshop took place on Tues. 1st June to Thurs. 3rd June. It was supported by ICMs. There were 100 registered delegates. The three day workshop programme covered the themes of Cardiac Modelling, Multiscale Modelling, Respiration and Circulation, Cancer and Mechanobiology. There were 6 plenary talks,28 talks & a poster session in sococo, preceded by one-minute presentations by the poster delegates. Recordings of all 6 plenary talks can be viewed via link.
  • 23 Mar

    TEAMS:Communication via the SofTMech^MP Team

    SofTMech had moved to using Microsoft TEAMS prior to COVID-19. However now all meetings will be virtual and mostly held using Microsoft TEAMS. Overview:
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Related Grants

  • Growth and Remodelling in the Porcine Heart

 

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PhDs in Applied Maths & Stats Sept/Oct 22

News

  • 12 Jan

    28th January Training Workshop

    Scientific computation and the finite element method on Friday 28th January (9.30am-1pm). Given the current restrictions, this event will be held on Zoom.
  • 27 Aug

    Fellowships for SofTMech staff and students

    SofTMech staff and students have been awarded Fellowships; Dr Cicely Macnamara has been appointed to a three-year Rankin-Sneddon Fellowship in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Glasgow, from September 2021. SofTMech students Debao Guan and Jay Mackenzie have been awarded one-year Post-PhD Research Assistantships in Mathematics and Statistics at Glasgow read more........
  • 26 Aug

    Best Paper Award ICSTA conference

    The paper "Inference in cardiovascular modelling subject to medical interventions" by Mihaela Paun, Agnieszka Borowska and Dirk Husmeier, in collaboration with their North Carolina collaborators Mitchel Colebank and Mette Olufsen http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/248501/ has won the best paper award at this year's ICSTA conference (International Conference on Statistics: Theory and Applications). A recording of the presentation is available here: zoom_recording.mp4
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TACKLING COVID-19

  • 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

    CSO Rapid Research in COVID Programme Award for Colin Berry

    Colin Berry has been successful in the Chief Scientist Office Rapid Research in Covid-19 (RARC-19) funding call and has been awarded £47,940 to lead a project to investigate Cardiac Imaging in SARS Coronavirus disease-19 (CISCO-19). One-in-four patients with COVID-19 pneumonia develop life-threatening heart problems. Through cardiovascular imaging and biomarkers analyses this study aims to evaluate whether COVID-19 infection results in heart injury read more
  • 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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