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Asked by Zzisaaczz to Dominic, Maedeh, Matthew, Matt, Monica on 11 Mar 2016.
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Monica Rozeik answered on 11 Mar 2016:
I’m working on designing a heart valve that will fit in children and hopefully will cope as they grow in size so they won’t need to keep having surgery to have another valve. It’s my most exciting and most challenging project to date! 🙂
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Dominic Eggbeer answered on 11 Mar 2016:
I’m working on a model to train surgeons how to inject medicine in an emergency, another one to train them how to help a patient breath if they are severely injured, a project to make patient specific implants more widely available and cheaper for the NHS and projects to fabricate custom garments (such as shoes and leg wear to compress swelling) for those with paralysed limbs or conditions such as lymphoedema (which causes huge swelling and prevents people moving around easily). I’m also designing 3D printable hands that perform better than current ones and can be made for the NHS. Too much really!
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Matthew Oldfield answered on 14 Mar 2016:
At the moment I’m working on a project developing a steerable needle for brain surgery. I spend my time on building computer programs to understand what happens to make the needle steer. These programs tell me how the steering changes if the needle is made of a stiffer material or a different shape.
The project overall has about eight engineers working on it now. From April there will be engineers from all over Europe working on it and looking at how the needle can deliver drugs to treat brain cancer. The important thing is that the surgeon knows what to avoid in the brain with the needle. Then they can steer around that object and reach the target to push the drugs into the cancer.
We are getting ready for the start of this project at the moment. This includes talking to doctors and experts in looking at medical images like x-rays. I hope that answers your question!
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