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.
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.
PhD student Lee Kruse currently spends three months with Prof Wouter Roos at the University of Groningen to mechanically charaterise HIV virus-like particles with AFM.
Welcome to Majahonkhe Shabangu who recently joint the Mechanobiology Lab as PhD student with focus on the mechanobiology in diagnosis and treatment of cancers in South African patients
We recently bid farewell to two of our postdoctoral research fellows, Kevin Sack and Tamer Abdalrahman. Fortunately, both remain involved in collaborative research with our lab.
Congratulations to Rochelle Smith who submitted for examination her MSc dissertation on cell mechanics in cancer drug resistance. We are delighted that Rochelle now wants to pursue a PhD with us.
Congratulations to alumnus Prof Mazin Sirry for receiving a prestigious Iso Lomso Fellowship for Early Career African Researchers from the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study.
Your biomechanics research addresses challenges in Africa - then submit an abstract to session "Integration of Global Health and Biomechanics: Addressing the Challenges in Africa" at World Congress of Biomechanics in Dublin, 8-12 July 2018. D
Prof Mazin Sirry, alumnus of the Division of Biomedical Engineering, has been appointed as Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Medical Sciences and Technology in Khartoum, Sudan.
Congratulations to Lee Kruse who was awarded the 2nd prize for oral presentation "Mathematical modelling of early stage engulfment of HIV into host cells" at the HUB/IBMS/PAT Postgraduate Research Day held on 27 Sep 2017.
We bid farewell to (soon to be Dr) Andie De Villiers who left the Mechanobiology Lab on 31 March to take up a faculty position in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Stellenbosch University.
The Mechanobiology Lab gathered over breakfast to bid farewell to Mazin Sirry who will take up an academic position at the University of Medical Sciences and Technology in Khartoum, Sudan.
Ghodeejah Higgins has been awarded a UCT Max & Lillie Sonnenberg Scholarship for a 5-months research visit on cancer mechanobiology to Muhammad Zaman's Laboratory for Molecular & Cellular D
Welcome to Julie Kohn from the Reinhart-King Lab at Cornell University. Julie joined Mechanobiology Lab as visiting PhD student for 12 months, funded through the
The Division of Biomedical Engineering held a workshop with 60 grade-10 learners from several secondary schools in Khayelitsha on 10 September 2016 as part of the 100up Project of UCT's School Improvement Initiative.
Kick-off meeting held for at University of California Berkeley on 11-12 August 2016 for UCT Three-Way PhD Global Partnership Programme “Computational Mechanobiology and Bioengineering towards Cell Therapies for Heart Attack and Heart Failure&rdqu
Welcome to John Nchejane at Mechanobiology Lab as new PhD student. John joins the UCT Three-way PhD Global Partnership Programme "Computational Mechanobiology and Bioengineering towards Cell Therapies for Heart Attack and Heart Failure".
Fulufhelo Masithulela and Hugo Krynauw graduated with a PhD in Cardiovascular Biomechanics during UCT's graduation ceremony on 13 June 2016. Congratulations to Fulu and Hugo for this achievement!
Fulu Masithela and Hugo Krynauw both received excellent examiners' reports for their PhD theses and will be bestowed with the PhD degree during UCT's graduation ceremony on 13 June 2016 at 18h00. You can watch the ceremony as it happens th
Chimwemwe Msosa recently joined the Mechanobiology Lab to undertake PhD studies that form part of his professional development as Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Malawi.
Congratulations to Dr Tamer Abdalrahman who received an EuroScience – Bosch Travel Grant to attend the EuroScience Open Forum taking place in Manchester, UK, during 23-27 July 2016.
A review paper on "Personalised computational cardiology: Patient-specific modelling in cardiac mechanics and biomaterial injection therapies for myocardial i
This is a great opportunity for U.S. Biomedical Engineering (BME) students and post-docs to apply for a Whitaker grant and be fully funded do spend one-two years in our Division of Biomedical Engineering working on a BME related project.
Congratulations to Dr Mazin Sirry for successfully completing the examination of his PhD thesis and being awarded the PhD degree during a graduation ceremony in 11 June 2015.
Congratulations to Mazin Sirry for completing his PhD thesis! Well done! Mazin submitted his thesis earlier this month and is currently enjoying time with his family.
Dr Tamer Abdalrahman joined the Mechanobiology Lab as postdoctoral research fellow to contribute to the research in therapies for myocardial infarction. Tamer received his PhD from the University of Torino, Italy, and subsequently undertook a postdocto
Tom Franz was recently awarded a three-year NRF Collaborative Postgraduate Training Grant worth R2.7m.The research project is concerned with multiscale modelling of cell therapies for myocardial infarction with the aim to develop computational tools to
BMBL has moved to new premises in UCT's Department of Human Biology on 29 and 30 April 2014. We can now be found in the Anatomy Building, 7th floor, Rooms 7.25 and 7.26 on UCT's Faculty of Health Sciences campus. Our new contact details ca
An invited commentary was published by BMBL in the Biophysical Journal on the potential of cellular mechanics and mechanobiology in prevention and management of obesity (
Malobogo Ngoepe very recently joined BMBL as postdoctoral researcher. Malebogo obtained PhD from the University of Oxford with research investigating, through computational modelling, the formation of thrombus in cerebral aneurysms. At BMBL, Maleb
In the next months, the Biomechanics and Mechanobiology Lab will move to the Division of Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Human Biology of UCT. This change is connected with Tom Franz having been offered the position of Head of the Division
The paper "Studying the influence of hydrogel injections into the infarcted left ventricle using the element-free Galerkin method" was published in the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering [
The Biomechanics and Mechanobiology Lab wishes all members, alumni, collaborators and friends a pleasant holiday season and a happy and prosperous new year. We are looking forward to continuing our research with you in 2014!
UCT’s Chris Barnard Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, with its Cardiovascular Research Unit, led by Prof Peter Zilla, was recently supported by the NRF in the acquisition of state-of-the-art intra-operative medical imaging equipment. NRF&rsqu
Since the first heart transplant, there have been enormous advances in promoting cardiovascular health and much progress in treating diseased hearts. These advances are dependent on bringing together different approaches – engineering, biomateria
Welcome to the new look of the BMBL web page - with a design that follows UCT's corporate identity. You will still find most of the information that was available under the previous design. Come back for news and updated on our research, stude
As part of an international event on cell mechanics and mechanobiology in Cape Town organised by BMBL, the consortium led by Prof Thomas Franz recently met with the UK Minister of Science and Universities, Rt Hon David Willetts MP.
Rodaina Omar has been as successful as Peter Wise - also obtaining a distinction for her MSc (Med) thesis on the optimization of structural and mechanical properties of electro-spun biodegradable scaffolds for vascular tissue regeneration. Congratulati
