2023

  • Thank you to Prof Minghong Yang, Professor of Optics Engineering at the Wuhan University of Technology for visiting us and for giving an invited talk at UCL (9 August 2023). Kudos to Zhi Li for leading with the charge with organising this event and to Sacha Noimark, Semyon Bodian, Esra Aytac Kipergil, Jo Coote, and Zhi Li for presentations/demos.
  • ​Richard Colchester and Phil Wiles represented UCL at the “BIGEvent” Science Communication conference on the 26th July, with a board game developed as part of the InTheatre Project.
  • ​Fraser Watt and Erwin Alles (MISI group) contributed prominently to the 2023 UCL Open Day (1 July 2023) for future students and their families. This event involved a range of activities from Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. Fraser and other PhD students hosted demonstrations from WEISS’s Science of Surgery which allowed visitors to take part in table-top-interactive activities such as acoustic levitation, robotic endoscopy, guidewire maze and ultrasound. 
  • Several members of the Interventional Devices Group present at the WEISS away day in Wotton House (11-12 July 2023).
  • Thanks to Dr Wei-Chuan Shih from the University of Houston for visiting the UCL-WEISS Centre!
  • Good luck to Shireen Jaufuraully with her next steps in obstetric medicine!
  • Adrien Desjardins takes part in "FOETAL 2: 2nd Forum on Obstetrics Engineering and Translation for Assisted Labour" at Oxford University (4 July 2023) along with colleagues from UCL: Silvia Schievano, Manish Tiwari, Carmen Salvadores Fernandez, Shireen Jaufuraully, and Jeremy Opie. Kudos to Antoine Jerusalem and Alice Collier (Oxford) and their colleagues for hosting and organising!
  • Shaoyan Zhang presented a poster at the European Conference on Biomedical Optics (ECBO) as part of a collaboration with Mr Chung Lim from the Royal Free Hospital in London (26 June 2023)
  • The Interventional Devices Group present at the Departmental Forum (UCL Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering) featuring presentations from Jo Coote, Esra Kipergil, Sunish Mathews, Efthymios Maneas and Jia-En (Danny) Chen (26 June 2023)
  • MSc students Nura Khan (Supervisors Zhi Li and Sacha Noimark) and Paul Oswald (Supervisors Sunish Mathews and Adrien Desjardins) present at the Poster Day (23 June 2023)
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  • Jia-En (Danny) Chen developed 3D-printed skull models based on anonymised patient data and they were used in a neurovascular course at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (Queen's Square, London, UK) in collaboration with Mr Hani Marcus (17 June 2023)
  • Congratulations to Karol Duque for being awarded a Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering Summer Studentship, working with Jia-En (Danny) Chen and Adrien Desjardins
  • Thank you to Prof Wen Feng Lu, Prof Ching-Chiuan Yen, Dr Ma Sha, and Dr Teoh Jee Chin from the National University of Singapore (NUS) for visiting us at the UCL-WEISS Centre and for inspiring discussions (6 June 2023)!
  • The MISI group has a new website! https://www.ucl.ac.uk/interventional-surgical-sciences/research/research-groups/multimodal-interventional-sensing-and-imaging-misi
  • Adrien Desjardins gave an invited talk at the UCL Medical Image Computing Summer School (MedICSS) on July 5
  • Congratulations to Valeria Dosso for being awarded a Summer Studentship from the Institute of Healthcare Engineering, working with Dr Neal Navani, Dr Ricky Thakrar (Respiratory Medicine, University College Hospital) and Efthymios Maneas, Anastasia-Theodora Stoica and Adrien Desjardins

  • ​Congratulations to Valeria Dosso who was awarded a summer studentship from the Institute of Healthcare Engineering to work with Efthymios Maneas and Adrien Desjardins on ultrasound phantoms
  • Congratulations to Efthymios Maneas and Adrien Desjardins, who have been awarded a Discovery-to-use (EPSRC IAA) grant for multimodality imaging phantoms (April 2023)
  • Efthymios Maneas completed "Innovation to Market", an elective MBA course at London Business School, to learn how to commercialise research and take a new technology to market (March 2023). After five extended taught sessions, Efthymios was paired with an MBA student in a joint project which was finally presented/pitched for investment in front of a panel of judges (March 2023; London, UK).
  • Last month, Richard Colchester was selected to participate in The Royal Society Policy Pairing Scheme. The scheme gives policymakers and research scientists an opportunity to experience each other’s worlds. This year’s event took place at Westminister between 26 – 30 March. After being paired with a government policymaker, Richard spent the week participating in workshops, hearing from guest speakers and spending time with his paired partner. Each year 30 research scientists are paired with UK parliamentarians and civil servants. They learn about each other’s work by spending time together in Westminster and the researcher’s institutions. You can read about Richard's experience here.
  • Adrien Desjardins attends iPCI, a global hybrid event focusing on optimising outcomes with state-of-the-art imaging and physiology techniques in interventional cardiology (13-14 April 2023; Rotterdam, Netherlands)
  • UCL-WEISS Science of Surgery! Kudos to Zhi Li, Semyon Bodian, Shaoyan Zhang, Fraser Watt, Erwin Alles, and Anastasia-Theodora Stoica for representing the group on 3 April 2023. Thanks to Shaoyan for leading the charge.
  • Congratulations to Efthymios Maneas, who was awarded funding from the Devices & Diagnostics Pilot Data Scheme for multimodality imaging phantoms (UCL Therapeutic Innovations Networks)
  • Congratulations to Carmen Salvadores Fernandez, who was invited to give an Oral Presentation at the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) 2023 Spring Meeting (Strasbourg, France)
  • Congratulations to Semyon Bodian for passing his PhD viva with flying colours! At right: with first supervisor Dr Sacha Noimark
  • The Interventional Devices Group presents at the all-WEISS meeting, highlighting recent and ongoing translational research from all of us and our various groups.
  • Kudos to Richard Colchester for contributing prominently to SURGE II (London, UK), which "brought together scientists, artists, and the public to explore the application of technology in surgery. This collaborative project between UAL’s Post-Grad Community and UCL’s Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS) culminated in a week-long exhibition at London College of Communication’s Lower Gallery." Carla Fernandez, MA Data Visualisation (London College of Communication), reflected on her work with Richard: "Inspired by Dr. Colchester’s research on minimal invasive imaging, me (MA in Data Visualisation) and Zhe Lou (MA in User Experience) together with Dr. Richard Colchester co-created a workshop for heart disease patients and ultrasound researchers at WEISS. We put together a space to develop a personal technical approach to minimal invasive ultrasound by producing a map of the patient's metaphorical arteries. We sought that this unique and contextualised representation could disengage different sensations towards information and technology."
  • Congratulations to Shireen Jaufuraully and the wider team for winning Best Oral Presentation: "Improving diagnostic accuracy during labour and postpartum with a sensorised surgical glove” at the World Congress of Perinatal Medicine (Milan, Italy)
    Congratulations to Shireen Jaufuraully and the wider team for winning the Fiona Denison Innovation Award: S. Jaufuraully, C. Salvadores Fernandez. B. Bagchi, P. Datta, P. Gupta, A. David, D. Siassakos, A. Desjardins, M. K. Tiwari, "Detection of anal sphincter injury using a sensorised surgical glove", RCOG Annual Academic Meeting, 10th February 2023 
  • Congratulations to Carmen Salvadores Fernandez and the wider team for winning the Best Poster Award at UCL Robotics '23: C. Salvadores Fernandez, S. Jaufuraully, B. Bagchi, P. Datta, P. Gupta, A. David, D. Siassakos, A. Desjardins, M. K. Tiwari, “Sensorised surgical gloves based on a novel sprayable multifunctional triboelectric nanocomposite for healthcare applications” UCL Robotics ’23, 17th February 2023

2022

  • In Theatre (17 October 2022–06 November 2022) was an accessible, interactive pop-up installation in Brick Lane from WEISS (UCL) and The Liminal Space that explores how ground breaking innovations such as these could benefit patients in the future. Here were two contributions from members of the Interventional Devices Group:
    Interactive Game workshop
    WEISS researcher Richard Colchester collaborated with game maker Matteo Menapace to engage with a group from Tower Hamlets who had had surgery and a group of secondary school age girls from the Mile End Community project to create a collaborative and interactive game exploring the process of healthcare research. The game is highly adaptable and now available for all WEISS researchers to use as part of their own engagement practice.
    Medical Scan workshop
    Artists Arieh Frosh and Ed Compson teamed up with WEISS researcher Zhi Li to run a workshop with people who had had a medical scan. Together, the group created communal artworks using chalks, laser etching and other techniques, while reflecting on their medical scanning experiences.
    Zine making workshop
    Sacha Noimark, a WEISS researcher, worked with artist Soofiya to create an online zine making workshop with people who had had a surgical procedure to learn more about what they wish they had known beforehand. Soofiya collated the findings of the workshop into a magazine that was handed out at In Theatre.
  • Multiple awards for IDG members at the WEISS winter workshop! Congratulations to Robert Stafford Williams for winning WEISS Early Career Researcher of the Year and to Sacha Noimark, Richard Colchester, and Zhi Li for winning the Public Engagement Group Award! Also, congratulations to Carmen Salvadores Fernandez and Shireen Jaufuraully for winning the Public Engagement Emerging Practice Award at the WEISS Annual Awards
  • Multiple talks and posters at the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (Oct 10-13; Venice, Italy): Fraser Watt and Erwin Alles (MISI group); Shaoyan Zhang, India Lewis-Thompson and Richard Colchester (micro-OpUS group);  Esra Kipergil, Efthymios Maneas and Adrien Desjardins (Interventional Devices Group) 
  • Shireen Jaufuraully gave an oral poster presentation at the RCOG World Congress and won first prize for best in-session oral poster presentation (13-15 June 2022); title: A Novel Sensorised Device to Improve Safety and Training in Operative Birth
  • Shireen Jaufuraully gave a poster presentation at the British Intrapartum Care Society (29 Sept 2022); title: A Novel Sensorised Device to Improve Safety and Training in Operative Birth. She also gave an oral presentation at this meeting; title: Detection of anal sphincter injury using a sensorised surgical glove
  • Shireen Jaufuraully gave an oral presentation at the British Maternal & Fetal Medicine Society (BMFMS) upcoming (17-18 November 2022); title: Detection of anal sphincter injury using a sensorised surgical glove. She also gave a poster presentation at the BMFMS; title: A Novel Sensorised Device to Improve Safety and Training in Operative Birth
  • Congratulations to Robert Stafford-Williams (MISI group of Erwin Alles) and Semyon Bodian (group of Sacha Noimark in a joint talk with Mengjie Shi in the group of Wenfeng Xia) for their talks at Optics and Ultrasound V (Sept 12-13, London, UK)
  • The Interventional Devices Group presented multiple talks and posters at the BioMedEng22 Conference (8-9 September, London, UK)
  • The Interventional Devices Group were at the WEISS away day; Richard Colchester and Adrien Desjardins are presenting (19-20 July 2022; Leatherhead, UK). Congratulations to Robert Stafford-Williams and Semyon Bodian for their pitches!
  • Richard Caulfield's PhD ceremony is held at UCL! On the right: with Manish Tiwari the day after.
  • Anastasia Theodora-Stoica and Yi Li give posters at the UCL MSc poster day
  • Richard Colchester, Zhi Li, and Sacha Noimark are leading with an activity in the WEISS public engagement event "In Theatre"
  • Congratulations to Elizabeth Carr for success with her PhD viva!
  • Congratulations to Eleanor Mackle for being awarded her PhD!
  • Congratulations to Senta Neubueser for winning a Summer Studentship from the Department of Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, working with Manish Tiwari and Carmen Salvadores Fernandez
  • Sacha Noimark and Semyon Bodian gave invited talks at the International Workshop on Biomedical Photoacoustics at the IEEE EMBC conference (Glasgow, UK)
  • Adrien Desjardins gave a lecture for the UCL Medical Image Computing Summer School (London, UK)
  • Adrien Desjardins gave a lecture for the King's Summer School on Surgical & Interventional Engineering (London, UK)
  • Sacha Noimark, Phil Wiles, Simon Watt, and artist Soofiya organised an interactive arts-led workshop on zine making. Participants were encouraged to tell their stories, and connect through zines about their surgical experiences and shared what they would like to know when deciding whether or not to have surgery (London, UK; 15 June)
  • Adrien Desjardins, Manish Tiwari, Silvia Schievano, and Antoine Jerusalem co-host a workshop on measuring and modelling forces in obstetrics at UCL-WEISS (15 June 2022)​
  • Efthymios Maneas, Eleanor Mackle, and Callum Little present and Adrien Desjardins Chairs a session at IPCAI/CARS 2022 (6-10 June; Tokyo, Japan)
  • The Interventional Devices Group present at the WEISS Science of Surgery Event
  • Adrien Desjardins presented at the Career Celebration Event for Prof. Adrian Podoleanu (University of Kent; 27 May 2022)
  • Richard Colchester is profiled in this video -- speaking about his research into optical ultrasound as part of the Disruptive Thinkers series from the UCL Faculty of Engineering.
  • Congratulations to Erwin Alles for winning a Springboard award from the Academy of Medical Sciences!


2021

  • Adrien Desjardins gave an invited talk at the Royal Free Cardiovascular Symposium (London UK; 19 November 2021)

2020

  • We have started an EDI (Equality, Diversity, Inclusion) channel in the group with rotating leads for presentations at group meetings. Thank you to Sacha Noimark, Robert Stafford-Williams, and Jo Coote for generating a lot of momentum with this.
  • Eleanor Mackle presents at the UCL WEISS symposium on Phantoms for Medical Research
  • Callum Little and Adrien Desjardins present at the UCL WEISS co-investigator meeting
  • Adrien Desjardins presented at the Graduate Seminar Series at Yonsei University
  • Callum Little presented at TCT 2020 / Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics 2020
  • Congratulations to Richard Caulfield for passing his PhD viva!
  • Esra Aytac Kipergil and Erwin Alles presented at IEEE Ultrasonics 2020
  • Sacha Noimark and Richard Colchester are Guest Editing a Methods Collection for JoVE, the Journal of Video Experiments. Their aim is to compile a research collection showcasing ways in which PDMS composites have been created for use in sensing and imaging in biomedical applications, to encourage cross-disciplinary use and future collaborations. Further details here. Please consider submitting an abstract!
  • Richard Colchester was selected as one of University College London's British Science Association Media Fellows. Congratulations!
  • ​Callum Little presented at the American College of Cardiology World Congress of Cardiology
  • Efthymios Maneas presented at CARS 2020
  • Congratulations to Radhika Poduval (former PhD student in the Interventional Devices Lab) for her Postdoctoral position at Harvard University
  • Members of the Interventional Devices lab took part in two popular public engagement activities at the Science Museum: the Science Museum Lates and the Science Museum Half Term events. 
  • Congratulations to Eleanor Mackle and Liz Carr for placing in the top three of speakers (peer judging!) in the i4health upgrade day
  • Congratulations to Erwin Alles for being promoted to Lecturer in Interventional and Surgical Sciences at WEISS!
  • Esra Aytac Kipergil presented at the Departmental Forum
  • Eleanor Mackle presented for a visiting group from EWHA Womans University (Prof Seokchang Ryu)

2019

2018

  • Congratulations to Efthymios Maneas for winning third prize in the Biophotonics and Imaging Graduate Summer School 2018 poster competition
  • Erwin Alles, Richard Colchester, and Tom Robbins present at IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium 2018 (Kobe, Japan)
  • Congratulations to Efthymios Maneas for being awarded a Platform Grant from the Centre for Medical Image Computing (CMIC)
  • Congratulations to Wenfeng Xia for his new position as a Lecturer at King's College London
  • Congratulations to Yousuf Makki for winning a British Heart Foundation Travel Award for BioMedEng18
  • Congratulations to Yousuf Makki for winning best presentation at the The Conference of Astronomy and Physics Students (Newcastle, UK)
  • Congratulations to Sacha Noimark for winning an EPSRC-UKRI Innovation Fellowship
  • Adrien Desjardins gives a keynote talk at the European Society for Vascular Surgery (Frankfurt, Germany)
  • Adrien Desjardins gives a talk at the UCL Cardiovascular Symposium (London, UK)
  • Callum Little presents a poster at Optics in Cardiology (Zurich, Switzerland)
  • Jo Coote and Richard Caulfield present posters at Photonex London 2018: Advances in Biophotonics (UCL, London, UK)
  • Efthymios Maneas and Richard Caulfield present posters at the UCL Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (EGA) Institute for Women's Health 13th Annual Conference (London, UK). Congratulations to Richard for winning second prize for his poster!
  • Malcolm Finlay and Erwin Alles present a poster at the European Cardiac Arrhythmia Society (Paris, France)
  • Congratulations to Elizabeth Carr for winning an Annual Scholarship from the Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers!
  • Congratulations to Efthymios Maneas for winning Runner-up prize for best poster: Placenta Imaging Workshop at the Centre for Medical Image Computing (London, UK)!
  • Adrien Desjardins presents at the Placenta Imaging Workshop at the Centre for Medical Image Computing  (London, UK)
  • Jo Coote, Sunish Mathews, Efthymios Maneas, Richard Colchester, and Adrien Desjardins present at SPIE Photonics West 2018 (San Francisco, USA)

2017

  • Sacha Noimark and Richard Colchester present at Optics + Ultrasound IV (Glasgow, UK)
  • Adrien Desjardins presents at Optics + Ultrasound IV (Glasgow, UK)
  • Adrien Desjardins attends EPSRC's Inaugural Healthcare Technologies Hive Event (Glasgow, UK)
  • Wenfeng Xia and Adrien Desjardins present at MICCAI 2017 (Quebec City, Canada)
  • Erwin Alles presents at the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (Washington D.C., USA)
  • Adrien Desjardins presents at the 2nd Canterbury Conference on OCT (Canterbury, UK)
  • Baroness Manningham-Buller visits our lab, with an optical ultrasound demo by Erwin Alles
  • Congratulations to Richard Colchester for winning the 2017 Lombardi Prize for best PhD thesis in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering at UCL!
  • Radhika Poduval presents at the European Conference on Biomedical Optics (Munich, Germany)
  • Adrien Desjardins presents at CLEO: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2017 (San Jose, USA)
  • Sacha Noimark presents at 253rd American Chemical Society National Meeting (San Francisco, USA)
  • Adrien Desjardins and Richard Colchester present at Optics in Cardiology 2017 (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
  • Efthymios Maneas and Daniil Nikitichev present at the University of Cambridge
  • Wenfeng Xia, Richard Colchester, and Efthymios Maneas present at SPIE Photonics West 2017 (San Francisco, USA)
  • Congratulations to Richard Colchester for being awarded an EPSRC Doctoral Prize fellowship!

2016

  • Congratulations to Ragav Manimaran: selected as the Global Winner of the Undergraduate Awards in the Medical Sciences category for his research project on cardiac phantoms (co-supervised by Adrien Desjardins, Wenfeng Xia, and Malcolm Finlay, with support from Daniil Nikitichev and Efhymios Maneas)
  • Adrien Desjardins presents at Optics + Ultrasound III (Nottingham)
  • Congratulations to Richard Colchester for passing his his viva!
  • Adrien Desjardins and Wenfeng Xia present (poster and oral) at MICCAI 2016 (Athens, Greece)
  • Together with Paul Beard, Ben Cox, Wiendelt Steenbergen, and Burcin Unlu, Adrien Desjardins organised the first photoacoustic tutorial at MICCAI 2016
  • ​Erwin Alles presents at IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium 2016 (Tours, France)
  • Erwin Alles presents at The Young Researchers' Futures Meeting 2016
  • ​Adrien Desjardins presents at the Hamlyn Symposium
  • Adrien Desjardins presents at Oxford Photonics Day
  • Congratulations to Richard Colchester for winning best presentation in the Cambridge-UCL Photonics Doctoral Training Programme
  • Erwin Alles presents at Laser Ultrasonics (Linz, Austria) 
  • Congratulations to Sacha Noimark for being awarded a Ramsay Memorial Fellowship!
  • Congratulations to Richard Colchester for winning best poster in the Cambridge-UCL Photonics Doctoral Training Programme!
  • Wenfeng Xia and Adrien Desjardins present at Photonics West  (San Francisco, USA)

2015

  • Sacha Noimark and Richard Colchester present at Materials Research Society (Boston, USA)
  • Adrien Desjardins presents at UK-Japan Bioengineering Workshop (London, UK)
  • Erwin Alles presents at IEEE Ultrasonics (Taipei, Taiwan)
  • Wenfeng Xia presents at the European Conference for Biomedical Optics (Munich, Germany)
  • Malcolm Finlay presents at Europace (Milan, Italy)
  • Wenfeng Xia presents poster at MICCAI (Munich, Germany)
  • Richard Colchester presents at Photonics West (San Francisco, USA)

2014

  • Adrien Desjardins presents at Surgical vision and Biophotonics: a meeting of the British Machine Vision Association (London, UK)
  • Adrien Desjardins presents at the Franco-British Engineering Education workshop (London, UK)
  • Jean-Martial Mari presents at the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (Las Vegas, USA)
  • Adrien Desjardins present at Photonics West 2014 (San Francisco, USA)​