Our Focus
Developing cardiac big data database within the region, enhancing user ready sensor technology, improving smart wearables, reducing the complexity of point of care diagnostics and improved smart, clinically relevant monitoring in the AAL and rehabilitation environments.
Our Objective
To create a cross-border centre of research excellence within the field of cardiovascular medicine in particular focusing on medical grade wearables and associated remote monitoring systems.
A Dedicated Centre of Excellence
The Eastern Corridor for Medical Engineering (ECME) is a new cross-border centre funded by the European Union’s Interreg VA Programme which is managed by the special EU programmes body (SEUPB).
ECME Objective: A Doctoral Training Centre
The outcome of ECME will be to create better models of heart disease care by researching (through 24 PhD students) and developing generic solutions (through 3 RAs) within the lucrative and growing remote patient monitoring market, with a specific focus on developing:
- cardiac big data database within the region
- enhancing user ready sensor technology
- improving smart wearables
- reducing the complexity and cumbersomeness of point of care diagnostics
- and improved smart clinically relevant monitoring in the AAL and rehabilitation environments.
This project was awarded €8.4M Funding from the European Union’s INTERREG VA Programme, managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB).
The objectives of the project are:
- To create a cross-border centre of research excellence within the field of cardiovascular medicine in particular focusing on medical grade wearables and associated remote monitoring systems; (Be a major research power in Cardio Medical Engineering)
- To undertake excellent research (commencing at TRL levels of between 1 and 3) through the creation of 24 PhD studentships aiming to have all research PhDs completed by December 2021; (Leaders for the Future)
- To engage with ten industry partners at TRL levels of between 2 and 6, through three Research Associate appointments in five RIs and one Business Manager, with funded innovation activity to be completed by December 2021; (Innovation and Economic enhancement)
- To publish 81 peer reviewed journal and conference publications with cross border authorship to increase international recognition of the centre by December 2021;
- To create five new product platforms, (generic technologies that allow both academic and industrial research to be progressed on for a wide range of applications – for example versatile microfluidic system or a robust software algorithm (app) by December 2021 that will provide the building blocks for future commercialisation of the research. (Impact).
NIBEC
The Team
- Professor Jim McLaughlin
- Professor James Davis
- Professor Omar Escalona
- Professor Paul Maguire
- Professor Brian Meenan
- Professor Chris Nugent
- Dr. Dewar Finlay
- Dr. Daniel Guldenring
- Dr. Raymond Bond
Specialties
- Healthcare Sensor Systems
- Medical Electronics
- Vital Signs and Blood Diagnostics (POC)
- AAL
- Wearables
- DSP and Pattern Recognition
- Algorithm Development
- Nano & Micro-Fabrication
Cardiac Research Unit
The Team
- Dr David McEneaney
- Dr Ian Menown
- Dr Peter Sharpe
- Dr Derek McKillop
Specialties
- Cardiac electrophysiology
- heart failure and cardiac implanted device therapy
Netwell & the Regulated Software Centre
The Team
- Dr Julie Doyle
- Dr Fergal Mc Caffery
- Dr John Loane
- Dr Niamh Caprani
- Dr Lucia Carragher
Specialties
- Home Health Technologies
- Regulated Software
- Health Analytic
- post-diagnostic interventions
- Public Health Policies
Biomedical Diagnostics Institute BDI
The Team
- Prof Richard O Kennedy
- Prof Robert Foster
Point of Care device for ultrasensitive detection of miRNA associated with cardiovascular disease. - Prof Jens Ducree
- Professor Paul Cahill
Endothelial release of membrane vesicles that harbour Notch and Hedgehog ligands as a POCT Predictor of Atherosclerosis.
Specialties
- Biomarker Development
- Point of Care Diagnostics
Applied Research For Connected Health INSIGHT
The Team
- Professor Brian Caulfield
- Dr Brian MacNamee
- Dr David Coyle
- Prof Tahar Kechadi
- Department of Cardiology (Beacon Hospital)
Specialties
- Big Data
- Machine learning
- predictive analytics
- information visualisation
- HCI
- Health Data Mining
Department of Diabetes and Cardiovascular Science/Rural Health
The Team
- Prof Ian Megson
- Prof Angus Watson
- Prof Steve Leslie
- Prof Jun Wei
- Dr Sarah-Anne Munoz
- Dr Dan Crabtree
- Dr Andrew Treweeke
- Dr Trish Gorely
Specialties
- Interventional cardiology
- cardiac rehab
- digital Health
- data analytics Protonomics
- rural health
- cardiovascular disease
- biomarkers
- lipids