List of biofluid mechanics research groups

Last updated February 10, 2024

This list of biofluid mechanics research groups gives an overview of academic research organisations in the field.

Country	University / Institute	Group	Topic
Australia	UNSW Australia	Sydney Vascular Modelling Group Advanced^[1] and Thermofluidics Group^[2]	Cardiovascular fluid dynamics and mechanics, stent design and strategy optimization, arterial flow and stenosis, transport of drugs from stents
Australia	ANU	Optical Biofluidics Imaging (oBIG) Lab^[3]	Biomedical Photonics, Biofluidics Imaging, Applied Optics
Belgium	Ghent University	BioMMeda^[4]	Biomedical ultrasound research, medical devices, cardiovascular mechanics, (artificial) organs and biofluids
Canada	University of Toronto	Biomedical Simulation Lab^[5]	Hemodynamic factors in atherogenesis, stroke risk assessment, optimization of bypass graft surgery
Canada	University of Western Ontario	Biofluidics Research Lab^[6]	Vascular models (atherosclerosis, aneurysms), microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip, cell mechanotransduction
Germany	Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin	Biofluid Mechanics Lab^[7]	Blood pressure measurement, ventricular assist devices, flow visualization methods (PIV, dye erosion/washout), Computational Fluid Dynamics, heart valves, blood damage, thrombus formation, congenital heart disease, patient-specific modelling
Germany	RWTH Aachen	Laboratory for Biomedical Fluid Mechanics^[8]	Flows in artificial organs, artificial heart valve prostheses, blood pumps
Germany	University of Bayreuth	Biofluid Simulation and Modeling^[9]	Drug delivery agents in blood flow, interfacial water, molecular dynamics of liquid organic solar cells
Israel	Israel Institute of Technology	The Technion Biofluids Laboratory^[10]	Respiratory flows, small-scale physiological flows using microfluidic techniques
Israel	Ariel University	The Ariel Biomechanics Center (ABmC) ^[11]	Heart valves, medical devices
Italy	Politecnico di Milano	LaBS^[12]	Intracranial aneurysm, pediatric surgical corrections, fetal hemodynamics
Netherlands	University of Twente	Computational Physiology^[13]	Intracranial aneurysm, Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow, Regimes of flow in Physiology, Numerical Methods, High Performance Computing
Norway	Simula Research Laboratory	Simula^[14]	Intracranial aneurysm, Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow, Cardiac Biomechanics, Numerical Methods
Singapore	NUS	Biofluid Mechanics Research Laboratory^[15]	Biofluid Mechanics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Cardiovascular Engineering, Particle Image Velocimetry
Switzerland	École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne	LHTC^[16]	Wave propagation, Cerebrospinal Fluid Mechanics, Hemodynamical forces and vascular diseases
Switzerland	University of Bern	ARTORG Cardiovascular Engineering Group^[17]	Heart valves, complex vascular networks, advanced pumping systems
Switzerland	University of Zurich	The Interface Group^[18]	Cerebrospinal fluid dynamics, cardiovascular fluid mechanics, integrated flow chambers for mechanobiology, biomedical applications
Turkey	Koç University	Pekkan Biofluid Mechanics Laboratory^[19]	Cardiovascular fluid mechanics, ontogenical hemodynamics
United Kingdom	University College London	MUSE^[20]	Cardiovascular fluid mechanics, cardiovascular engineering
United Kingdom	Imperial College London	The Xu Group^[21]	Cardiovascular diseases, Fluid–structure interaction, drug delivery
United Kingdom	University of Sheffield	CISTIB^[22]	Biomedical imaging, interventional planning, medical devices
United Kingdom	Imperial College London	Cardiovascular Biomechanics and Ultrasound Laboratory ^[23]	Embryonic and fetal cardiac flows, congenital heart malformations, placenta and umbilical biomechanics, anti-thrombotic blood pumps
United Kingdom	University of Strathclyde	Biofluid Mechanics (BioFLM) research group^[24]	Biofluid mechanics, haemodynamics, cardiovascular fluid mechanics, in-silico modelling of fluids in biological systems
United States	Colorado State University	Cardiovascular and Biofluid Mechanics Laboratory^[25]	Heart valve, heart development, Fluid–structure interaction
United States	Georgia Institute of Technology	Cardiovascular Fluid Mechanics Laboratory^[26]	Biomechanics of vascular pathologies, medical devices
United States	Georgia Institute of Technology	Biofluids and Medical Device Research Group^[27]	Cardiac and valvular mechanics, aortic valve mechanobiology, prosthetic heart valve mechanics, pediatric cardiovascular engineering
United States	University of Idaho	NIML - Neurophysiological Imaging and Modeling Laboratory^[28]	Cerebrospinal fluid dynamics, Intrathecal drug and gene vector delivery, hydrocephalus and Chiari malformation, medical devices, neurodegenerative disorders
United States	University of Illinois at Chicago	Laboratory for Product and Process Design^[29]	Cerebrospinal fluid flow, intrathecal drug delivery, intrathecal magnetic drug targeting, convection-enhanced drug delivery, whole brain cerebral blood flow, oxygen perfusion in cerebral microvasculature, cerebral water transport by Aquaporin 4, hydrocephalus smart shunt design
United States	University of Maryland	Biofluid Dynamics Laboratory^[30]	Hemodynamics and hemopathology in the microcirculation, drop dynamics
United States	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Biofluids and Vascular Biology Laboratory : Jiménez Lab^[31]	Cardiovascular stents, Lymphatic flow study
United States	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Edelman Lab^[32]	Drug delivery, medical devices
United States	University of Michigan	Biofluid Mechanics Research Laboratory^[33]	Lung airway closure/re-opening, pulmonary surfactant delivery, artificial lung, ocular flows
United States	University of Minnesota	St. Anthony Falls Laboratory ^[34]	Cardiovascular fluid mechanics, medical devices, virtual surgery
United States	Stony Brook University	Biofluids Research Group^[35]	Heart valves, artificial heart, left ventricular assist device
United States	The City College of New York	The Wallace H. Coulter Laboratory for Cardiovascular Dynamics and Biomolecular Transport^[36]	Vascular diseases, mechanotransduction, glycocalyx
United States	Tulane University	Biofluid Mechanics Laboratory^[37]	Improved therapies for pulmonary disease ARDS, prevention of ventilator-induced lung injury
United States	University of Texas at San Antonio	Vascular Biomechanics and Biofluids Laboratory ^[38]	Medical devices, Abdominal aortic aneurysm, Fluid–structure interaction
United States	The George Washington University	Biofluid Dynamics Laboratory ^[39]	Arterial flows, intraglottal flows
United States	Wright State University	Multi-Scale Cardiovascular Bioengineering Laboratory ^[40]	Heart valve disease, Congenital heart defects, Mechanobiology, Fluid–structure interaction, Particle-image velocimetry
United States	Northern Arizona University	Cardiovascular Biomechanics Lab ^[41]	Mass transport in Cardiovascular system, Heart valve calcification study, Particle deposition in Respiratory tract

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[1] Sydney Vascular Modelling Group

[2] Advanced Thermofluidics Group

[3] Optical Biofluidics Imaging (oBIG) Lab

[4] BioMMeda

[5] Biomedical Simulation Lab

[6] "Biomedical Physics Research Lab - Western University". physics.uwo.ca. Retrieved 2023-12-13.

[7] Biofluid Mechanics Lab

[8] Laboratory for Biomedical Fluid Mechanics

[9] Biofluid Simulation and Modeling

[10] The Technion Biofluids Laboratory

[11] The Ariel Biomechanics Center (ABmC)

[12] LaBS

[13] Computational Physiology

[14] Simula

[15] Biofluid Mechanics Research Laboratory

[16] LHTC

[17] ARTORG Cardiovascular Engineering Group

[18] The Interface Group

[19] Pekkan Biofluid Mechanics Laboratory

[20] MUSE

[21] The Xu Group

[22] CISTIB Archived 2014-12-28 at the Wayback Machine

[23] Cardiovascular Biomechanics and Ultrasound Laboratory

[24] "Biofluid Mechanics". Biofluid Mechanics. Retrieved 2023-02-22.

[25] Cardiovascular and Biofluid Mechanics Laboratory

[26] Cardiovascular Fluid Mechanics Laboratory

[27] Biofluids and Medical Device Research Group

[28] NIML - Neurophysiological Imaging and Modeling Laboratory

[29] Laboratory for Product and Process Design

[30] Biofluid Dynamics Laboratory

[31] Jiménez Lab

[32] Edelman Lab

[33] Biofluid Mechanics Research Laboratory

[34] St. Anthony Falls Laboratory

[35] Biofluids Research Group

[36] The Wallace H. Coulter Laboratory for Cardiovascular Dynamics and Biomolecular Transport

[37] Biofluid Mechanics Laboratory

[38] Vascular Biomechanics and Biofluids Laboratory

[39] Biofluid Dynamics Laboratory

[40] Multi-Scale Cardiovascular Bioengineering Laboratory (MSCBL)

[41] "Home". cardiolab.nau.edu.

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