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News & Events

• Professor Tim Baker recognised in 2020 Honours list for UCL Ventura engineering efforts
• UCL Ventura: The Miracle from MechSpace – watch the webinar
• MechEng graduand George Imafidon joins Lewis Hamilton’s diversity commission
• Lee and Luo named Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
• UCL ocean physicist to deliver Royal Institution Christmas Lecture
• UCL Ventura team wins prestigious engineering award
• Professor David Andrews Awarded William Froude Medal for Naval Architecture

Research highlights

• “Current methodologies and approaches for the formation of core–sheath polymer fibers for biomedical applications”  S. Mahalingam, Rupy K. Matharu, Shervanthi Homer-Vanniasinkam, and Mohan Edirisinghe. Applied Physics Reviews. Volume 7, issue 4, October 2020

• “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