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What we do and care about
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Tissue Regeneration

Microscopic images of new tissue forming inside a polymeric scaffold.
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Therapies for Heart Attacks

Anatomical contours of left and right ventricles of a heart for computational mechanics of biomaterial injections in the treatment of myocardial infarction.
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Finite Element Analysis

Partial finite element model of a vascular prosthesis illustrating deformation caused by blood pressure.
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Scaffolds for Soft Tissue Regeneration

Scanning electron micrograph of electro-spun polymeric scaffold for soft tissue regeneration.

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Welcome back to Dodzi Motchon

Dr Dodzi Motchon returns to the Mechanobiology Lab as postdoctoral fellow.
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Juliet Nagawa submitted PhD thesis

Congratulations to Juliet Nagawa for submitting her PhD thesis - well done for this major step and achievement!
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Malebogo Ngoepe appointed as UCT Research Centre director

Congratulations to Associate Professor Malebogo Ngoepe to the recent apointment as director of the Centre for Research in Computational and Applied Mechanics (CERECAM) at UCT.
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Welcome to visiting researcher Dr Jerry Ochola

Welcome to Dr Jerry Ochola from Moi University in Kenya to a nine-month research visit to the Mechanobiology Lab funded through an Africa Research Excellence Fund fellowship.
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