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  • “Personal protective equipment (PPE) for vitreoretinal surgery during COVID-19” Aman Chandra, Richard Haynes, Ian Eames, Melanie Hingorani & Louisa Wickham  et al  Nature “Eye”, Volume 34 Issue 5, May 2020

  • “Lasting organ-level bone mechanoadaptation is unrelated to local strain” Behzad Javaheri & Peter D. Lee et al. Science Advances. Volume 6, number 10, March 2020

  • “In situ characterization of nanoscale strains in loaded whole joints via synchrotron X-ray tomography” Andrew A. Pitsillides & Peter D. Lee et al. Nature Biomedical Engineering, November 2019

  • “Persistent and polarized global actin flow is essential for directionality during cell migration” Yolland, L, Burki, Miodownik, M et al. Nature Cell Biology 4 November, 2019

  • “Stress relaxation in epithelial monolayers is controlled by the actomyosin cortex” Nargess Khalilgharibi et al. Nature Physics, 15, 839-847, May, 2019

  • “Boron nitride nanoscrolls: Structure, synthesis, and applications” Muhammad Saqib Qayyum, Hasan Hayat, Rupy K. Matharu, Tanveer A. Tabish, and Mohan Edirisinghe. Applied Physics Reviews. Volume 6, issue 2, April 2019

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UCL Ventura team wins prestigious engineering award

HRH The Princess Royal, Royal Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, congratulates the winners of the President’s Special Awards for Pandemic Service. Teams honoured include our very own UCL Ventura lead by Professors Rebecca Shipley and Tim Baker

For more on this award see the UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering news story

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