Heart of Gold: Team Bath Heart wins world Heart Hackathon competition
Team Bath Heart’s artificial heart wins top prize at international engineering & design contest.
Centre for Bioengineering & Biomedical Technologies
We address the grand challenges in human health and wellbeing through transdisciplinary and translatable bioengineering research.
Our community
Our Centre is home to academics, researchers and research students spanning the breadth and depth of bioengineering and technologies. As well as research focus, we support undergraduate students to successes in project work and team competitions.
Student-made water quality monitor can help isolated communities track safe water sources
Team Bath Biodevices without Borders' portable OASIS device combines miniature testing equipment with GPS to create safe water map.
Research pillars
Our research sits under three transdisciplinary pillars.
Sustainable healthcare
Targeted and personalised intervention
Humans and the environment
Research stories
Find out more about the research we're doing in the Centre.
No more big needles: scientists develop a skin patch that painlessly delivers drugs into the body
An affordable microneedle skin patch that delivers a controlled dose of medicine directly into the body has been developed by a team led by scientists at Bath.
‘Lab on a chip’ genetic test device can identify viruses within three minutes with highest accuracy
Compact genetic testing device created for Covid-19 could be used to detect a range of pathogens, or conditions including cancer.
'Earswitch' could allow people with neurological conditions to communicate using a hidden ear muscle
The revolutionary device being developed by a GP with researchers at Bath could offer fresh hope for people with conditions such as Motor Neurone Disease.
Electrical nerve stimulation research could pave the way to new treatments
Electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve could lead to new treatments for a wide range of diseases and disorders including epilepsy, depression and arthritis
£1 million funding for project using Bath research to develop low-emission food systems
The project will be led by Clean Food Group working in collaboration with the University of Bath's bioprocess engineering and yeast biotechnology research teams
Open ankle models project
We are developing a new open-source simulation tool to improve our understanding and treatment of ankle injury.
Study with us
You could study a PhD with us or join our research community through our C3Bio Doctoral Training Initiative: grand challenges in health technologies.
Faculty of Engineering & Design postgraduate research degrees
Join our collaborative and supportive research community, and start your journey to becoming an expert in your field.
Study with our C3Bio Doctoral Training Initiative: Grand Challenges in Health Technologies
We're looking for PhD students to join our DTI addressing grand challenges in health technologies. Find out about the areas we cover and current opportunities.
How you can work with our C3Bio Doctoral Training Initiative
We are seeking industrial partners and external sponsors to work with us on our Doctoral Training Initiative. Find out how you can get involved.
About us
We are a diverse, collaborative and inclusive community delivering impact through innovation in the areas of targeted and personalised interventions, sustainable healthcare, and humans and the environment. We are bridging the gap between the different disciplines to develop technologies that address clinical, environmental and industrial needs.
Work with us
Please contact us with any questions about our research activity or find out about ways you can collaborate with us.