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.
Read about our recent inaugural internal CBio conference
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.
New Bath-developed surgical device used for the first time
Bath engineer collaborates with RUH clinicians on new drilling guidance system to help fix broken bones
Soil power: UK startup Bactery is generating sustainable energy from the earth
University of Bath startup creates sustainable power from bacterial batteries – ‘Bacteries’ – that harvest electricity from soil
Seaweed packaging innovator Kelpi secures £4.35 million in new funding
Firm co-founded by University of Bath Bioprocess Engineer Prof Chris Chuck set to expand
Microsystems for healthcare meeting is a European first
The first gathering of experts in microsystems for healthcare in Europe is to take place at the University of Bath this week.
New £13m Centre of Excellence in water-based community health monitoring to open
Centre will develop a nationwide early warning system for diseases using water-based systems
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.
Study with us
You could study a PhD with us or join our research community through a doctoral training centre.
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.
New doctoral training centre in Freshwater-Based Early Warning Systems to open after £2.66m funding
RED ALERT CDT will strengthen UK’s expertise in environmental health management, by developing monitoring tools for freshwater based early warning systems
A more adventurous approach to prosthetics research
PhD researcher, Sam Walters is developing a hybrid prosthetic wrist unit for amputees. They tell us about their research and how they hope it can better lives.
University of Bath PhD Projects, programmes and scholarships on FindAPhD
Find out what PhD projects we're seeking research candidates for on FindAPhD and how to apply.
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.