Biomedical engineering is a branch of science and technology that combines engineering and medical and biological knowledge, tools and methods for the creation, improvement and study of natural and artificial biological objects, medical equipment, materials and products, technologies and technical systems for the diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and prevention of human diseases, as well as software and information technologies for solving applied and fundamental problems in biology and medicine.
The Department of Biomedical Engineering trains specialists (bachelor’s and master’s) in the speciality G22 Biomedical Engineering (BME), within the educational programme Biomedical Engineering.
Postgraduate and doctoral students are also trained in the speciality G22 Biomedical Engineering.
The department’s training bases are the Kharkiv Regional Council’s municipal non-profit enterprise ‘Regional Clinical Hospital’, the S.P. Grigoriev Institute of Medical Radiology and Oncology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Research Institute of Prosthetics, Prosthetics and Rehabilitation, the M.I. Sitenko Institute of Spine and Joint Pathology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, the Kvant X-ray Equipment Plant, and the Brigid Medical Centre.
Postgraduate students, doctoral students, and departmental staff use unique biomedical software and hardware from leading global companies, including Siemens, General Electric, Varian, Philips, and AGFA, in their educational and scientific activities. The department’s branch at the Ukrainian Research Institute of Prosthetics, Prosthesis Manufacturing and Rehabilitation provides its own equipment for the rehabilitation of persons with disabilities.
The department actively cooperates with universities and scientific institutes in China, Poland, and Germany under the ERASMUS+, DAAD, BMBF, and NATO programmes. Thanks to international scientific grants, the department’s research laboratories receive equipment that expands the range of scientific research and improves the training of highly qualified specialists in the biomedical field.
One of the department’s main areas of activity is fundamental and applied research, as well as the development of new medical devices, electronic equipment, and software in healthcare, inclusive education, sports medicine, ecology, nanotechnology, biophotonics, and electrochemical analytics.
