Research

We strive to make a significant impact by discovering novel technologies and treatments for coronary artery disease. You or your organisation can support our research through donations and philanthropic funding directly through the UNSW Alumni & Giving campaign.

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Personalise

Our research aims to understand the physiology of vascular function and blood flow to translate findings into clinical understanding and applications for disease treatment. Our primary focus is the characterisation of the pathophysiological processes of coronary artery disease. We use powerful image processing techniques and computational and experimental modelling of patient-specific clinical data. Personalised modelling pipelines are developed to help early disease diagnosis and improve treatment strategies through outcome predictions. We collaborate closely with clinicians.

Current research projects

Coronary Atlas

Just like we come in all different sizes and shapes, our arteries do too. Our team accounts for such individual differences by developing the largest coronary artery population vessel shape and flow database to date. This leads to advanced insights and reveals high-risk patients.

Stent design and strategy

Stent implants are not always easy. Some patients’ vessels are challenging to implant a stent into and for some lesions, there is still no consensus on the best stenting strategy. Our team is investigating these knowledge gaps.

Risk prediction

Deep learning is the most powerful machine learning subset, especially for our medical image processing. Using the large database available, we aim to identify early disease markers.

Personalised treatment

The future of medicine is precise. We aim to increase the understanding of individual differences and how these may affect cardiovascular health.

Get involved

Faculty members, industry, graduate school students or students looking for graduate programs, we want to hear from you. We're recruiting undergraduate and postgraduate bioengineering students and offering PhD bioengineering scholarships. Joint PhD projects are also possible. Biomedical engineering Post-Doc inquiries are also encouraged.

Learn more

Faculty members, industry and clinicians are encouraged to reach out. Especially if you're working in biomedical engineering and cardiovascular sciences, tissue engineering, life sciences, stem cell engineering and general stem cells in biological systems. We want to hear from you if you're interested in collaborating across biomedical engineering for cardiovascular health.

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