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The Awards offer to students and recent graduates the opportunity to present their work to academic and business leaders in the wide field of bioengineering. Prizes were awarded by a panel of BmED Board members and industrial partners for poster and podium presentations.
The event started with poster presentations. In the mixed undergraduate/MSc category sponsored by Triteq, Emma Newman, University of Southampton won the top prize for her poster on an artificial model of the ureter to test the performance of urological devices. Andrew McDonald, University of Cambridge, and Akash Mehta, Queen Mary University London, were the runners up.
The PhD Poster category was sponsored by the NIHR Surgical MedTech Co-Operative. A poster on developing an active physiological wrist simulator and applications to surgical reconstruction earned Darshan Shah from Imperial College London the top prize. Sherif Elsharkawy from Queen Mary University of London took the second place.
Vicon sponsored the prize for Best Medical Engineering Undergraduate Project, won by Jennifer Bishop, University of Oxford. Her presentation focused on using machine learning to drive smart patient discharge in hospitals. Helen Le Sueur, University of Surrey, and Sue Yi Chong, Imperial College London, also presented their work and won prizes.
The DePuy Prize for Best Medical Engineering PhD Project was awarded to Romina Plitman Mayo, University of Cambridge for her work on modelling oxygen transport in the human placenta. Francesc Levrero Florencio, University of Edinburgh, Mark Varley, University of Cambridge, and Karla Inostroza, Queen Mary University of London, were the runners up.
The event closed with the annual Prestige Lecture presented by Prof Mark Miodownik, MBE, from University College London. His address, titled "Living Materials", presented his journey toward creating smart materials and highlighted the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration.