Medical devices and healthcare

Improving the health and wellbeing of ageing populations presents huge economic and innovation opportunities – specifically in the field of medical devices and healthcare. 

We are a research leader in the $512 billion global medical devices industry. Our work ranges from R&D collaborations with multinational companies and SMEs, through to successful innovations via spin-out companies. And we’re always looking for opportunities to work closely with organisations to drive future health innovation and economic development. 

Key research assets and capabilities

Our expertise includes core engineering areas, clinical expertise and need identification. We have close links with local teaching hospitals, translational medicine and health-economic modelling. And our region is home to a diverse and stable multi-ethnic population – enabling scalable clinical trials.

• Advanced materials for medical devices
• Centre for Healthcare Technologies
• CHEATA
• Digital health
• Implants
• Intelligent modelling and analysis (biomedical)
• Medical device design and manufacturing
• MindTech – supporting the development, adoption and evaluation of new technologies for mental healthcare and dementia
• Modelling, analysis and decision support
• Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre
• Rehabilitation:
  
  
  • Rehabilitation Network
  • National Rehabilitation Centre
  • National Institute for Health and Care Research
• Precision imaging
• Sensing and imaging
• Scaffolds and biomaterials for treatment

Key contact

Caroline Sykes
Business Partnerships Manager
caroline.sykes@nottingham.ac.uk