BIOENGINEERING in ROMANIA

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BIOENGINEERING in ROMANIA
POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest

• Cristina Baisan
• Flavia Fiscu
• Razvan Ionescu

Bio Improve Your Life! Workshop Athens, May 2009
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DBB at PUB

• 2002 - The Department of Bioengineering and
  Biotechnology (DBB) was founded at POLITEHNICA
  University of Bucharest
• Mission instructing professionals at the
  interface between engineering, medicine, biology
  and biotechnology

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Objectives

• Education (reevaluation of the educational
  program, its focus on bioengineering and
  biotechnology)
• Research (integration of research in the
  educational curriculum)
• Infrastructure (acquisition of adequate
  laboratory and computational hardware and
  software, publications etc)
• Professional orientation (labor market trends
  technical database academic exchanges aimed at
  learning the educational experience of other
  universities interested in implementing similar
  programs).

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How ?

• DBB is coordinating and developing educational
  and research activities in the multidisciplinary
  area of Bioengineering and Biotechnology at the
  following levels MS, PhD and postgraduate
  training in
• Biomedical,
• Biotechnologies,
• Biomaterials,
• Bioinformatics.

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Master sections

• Medical and Clinical Engineering,
• Biomaterials and Biocompatible Substances and
  Materials,
• Biotechnology,
• Bioinformatics.
• Eligible candidates are graduates of long term
  academic instruction, from areas of engineering,
  medicine and biology.

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Laboratories and research teams

• Electrical Engineering in Medicine Faculty of
  Electrial Engineering
• Biomechanics and Biomedical Equipment Design
  Faculty of Fine Mechanics
• Intelligent Systems and Bioengineering Group
  Faculty of Automatics and Computer Science
• Medical Electronics and Computing Faculty of
  Electronics and Telecommunications
• Modelling and visualisation of complex fluids
  flows REOROM Laboratory, Faculty of Hydraulics
• Biomaterials Faculty of Materials Science
• Biomaterials Faculty of Industrial Chemistry
• Biochemical Engineering Faculty of Industrial
  Chemistry.

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Electrical Engineering in Medicine

• Reduction of electrophysiological phenomena
• Physiologic phenomena
• Direct and inverse problems in biomedical
  engineering
• Electric and magnetic stimulation of excitable
  tissues
• Design and concepts in medical instrumentation
• Medical imaging, reconstruction and navigation
• Human exposure to environmental electromagnetic
  field in medical therapy and life
• Constructal emergence in nature, life and
  engineering applications
• Physical and numerical modeling of anatomical and
  biological systems.

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Biomechanics Biomedical Equipment Design

• Design of a myoelectric controlled upper limb
  prosthesis
• Improvement of the prehension mechanisms included
  in the design of upper limb prosthesis
• Improvement of prosthetic systems
• Design of ultrasound transducers
• Design of some equipment for the study of dental
  photopolimerizable materials
• Simulator for determination of the distribution
  of the ionizing radiation of the low power
  radioactive sources of the medical equipment
• Design of the basic optical components of
  endoscopes
• Mechanical efforts in bone segments and joints by
  Moire network (photoelasticity)
• FEM analysis of mechanical efforts in human
  locomotor system
• Biolubrification and wear in natural and
  prosthetics joints.

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Intelligent Systems Bioengineering Group

• Control systems with applications in medicine
• Intelligent techniques for control and decision
  with applications in medicine
• Data acquisition and statistical processing of
  biomedical data
• Architectures based on cerebral functional
  principles
• Cooperative intelligent agents with applications
  in the area of medical robotics
• Modeling and systemic interpretation of
  biological processes
• Relational databases, instruments for the
  dissemination of medical information in Internet,
  multimedia databases
• Neural networks applications in pattern
  recognition in medicine
• Neuro-fuzzy and evolutionary methods for
  information processing
• Control in bioprocesses
• Control systems and data processing algorithms
  for the environment.

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Medical Electronics Computing

• Electrical stimulation study for a computer
  assisted neuro-stimulator applied in prolonged
  coma and Parkinson disease therapy
• Hardware and software solutions for ECG, EMG, EEG
  recording, analysis and processing
• Bio-chemiluminometer (the first analytical device
  based on bio-chemiluminescence realized in the
  east Europe)
• Methods and equipments for anesthesia by
  electrical stimulation of active points
• Methods and software implementation for
  biomedical signal processing and diagnosis using
  neural networks
• Identifying the conditions for emergence in
  cellular neural systems with applications in
  modeling and identification of biological systems
  and novel methods for biometry
• Method and system for adaptive control of
  exposure during CT scans
• An integrated system for body surface heart
  potential distribution maps.

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REOROM Laboratory

• Experimental investigations, theoretical
  modelling and numerical simulations of complex
  fluids (Newtonian and non-Newtonian liquids,
  viscoelastic fluids, biofluids, biphasic fluids)
  in 2D and 3D configurations, steady and unsteady
  flows
• Rheological investigations of viscoelastic
  liquids
• Modeling, rheology and complex investigations of
  corporal fluids.

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Biomaterials

• The degradation of metallic implants in simulated
  physiological media as an aspect of their
  biocompatibility
• The elaboration and characterization of
  bioartificial polymer with collagen content
• Physical chemical analysis in the service of the
  integrative medicine
• Biosensors
• Enzymes production by microbial fermentation
• Cell factories for producing alcohols, polymers,
  other metabolites, for degradation of pollutants
  
• AND recombinant technologies
• Metabolic engineering and single cell modelling
• Bioreactor performance studies
• Monitoring and control of bioprocesses

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• Thank you for your attention!