Access Keys:
The RCUK Digital Economy Programme congratulates the Department’s Engineering World Health Oxford Team, at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, which has won first prize in the annual Engineering World Health Design Competition for its Blood Pressure project. The competition, launched in 2009, is unique in being directed at the needs of developing country health care.
The winning team, comprising: Carlos Arteta; Corentin Chiffot; Joao Domingos; Marco Pimentel; Arvind Raghu; Mauro Santos; David Springer (studying at the Centre for Doctoral Training in Healthcare Innovation for their DPhils and on their MSc in Biomedical Engineering), and supervised by Dr Gari Clifford, has won first prize of $5,000 for an automated low-cost, easy-to-use blood pressure measurement device.
Further information is available here.