Professor Will Shu
Biomedical Engineering
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Prize And Awards
- Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (FRSM)
- Recipient
- 10/2024
- Best presentation award in 'Supporting the Replacement of Animals in Science' at BioMedEng24.
- Recipient
- 6/9/2024
- Real-time Digital Twin Assisted Surgery (DTAS)
- Recipient
- 29/3/2023
- Scottish Edge Award: Top Winner Round 18
- Recipient
- 12/2021
- Global Surgical Training Challenge Discovery Award
- Recipient
- 2021
- Digital twin guided minimally invasive, intelligent and intuitive surgery (MI-3 Surgery)
- Recipient
- 2021
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Publications
- Biofabrication and biomanufacturing in Ireland and the UK
- Murphy Jack F, Lavelle Martha, Asciak Lisa, Burdis Ross, Levis Hannah J, Ligorio Cosimo, McGuire Jamie, Polleres Marlene, Smith Poppy O, Tullie Lucinda, Uribe-Gomez Juan, Chen Biqiong, Dawson Jonathan I, Gautrot Julien E, Hooper Nigel M, Kelly Daniel J, Li Vivian S W, Mata Alvaro, Pandit Abhay, Phillips James B, Shu Wenmiao, Stevens Molly M, Williams Rachel L, Armstrong James P K, Huang Yan Yan Shery
- Bio-Design and Manufacturing Vol 7, pp. 825-856 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s42242-024-00316-z
- Printing cell embedded sacrificial strategy for microvasculature using degradable DNA biolubricant
- Shi Jiezhong, Wan Yifei, Jia Haoyang, Skeldon Gregor, Cornelissen Dirk Jan, Wesencraft Katrina, Wu Junxi, McConnell Gail, Chen Quan, Liu Dongsheng, Shu Wenmiao
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202417510
- Near real-time estimation of blood loss and flow-pressure re-distribution during unilateral nephrectomy
- Cowley James, Kyeremeh Justicia, Stewart Grant D, Luo Xichun, Shu Wenmiao, Kazakidi Asimina
- Fluids Vol 9 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids9090214
- Dynamic healing-assembly for biocompatible, biodegradable, stretchable and self-healing triboelectric nanogenerators
- Shen Ao, Xuan Huixia, Jia Yujie, Gu Shijia, Neisiany Rasoul Esmaeely, Shu Wenmiao, Sun Wei, You Zhengwei
- Chemical Engineering Journal Vol 491 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2024.151896
- Exploiting light-based 3D-printing for the fabrication of mechanically enhanced, patient-specific aortic grafts
- Asciak Lisa, Domingo-Roca Roger, Dow Jamie R, Brodie Robbie, Paterson Niall, Riches Philip E, Shu Wenmiao, McCormick Christopher
- Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials Vol 154 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2024.106531
- Understanding the role of biofilms in acute recurrent tonsillitis through 3D bioprinting of a novel gelatin-PEGDA hydrogel
- Denton Oliver, Wan Yifei, Beattie Laura, Jack Téa, McGoldrick Preston, McAllister Holly, Mullan Cara, Douglas Catriona M, Shu Wenmiao
- Bioengineering Vol 11 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering11030202
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Professional Activities
- Health and Care Futures: thematic areas workshop
- Invited speaker
- 30/5/2024
- Springer Nature (Publisher)
- Peer reviewer
- 11/2016
- 2016 International Conference on Biofabrication
- Chair
- 31/10/2016
- 2016 International Conference on Biofabrication
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 30/10/2016
- 13th Annual Norwegian Stem Cell Network Conference, Oslo September 15th, 2016
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 15/9/2016
- 16th Annual Meeting of Tissue and Cell Engineering Society, UCL, London.
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 4/7/2016
Projects
- Engineering Functional Human Tissue
- Eastham, Sarah (Research Co-investigator) Wu, Junxi (Principal Investigator) Shu, Will (Co-investigator)
- A 3-year studentship to develop a 3D microvascular model with blood-brain barrier function.
- 01-Oct-2024 - 01-Oct-2027
- Development of bioactive graphene based scaffolds for tissue repair
- Shu, Will (Principal Investigator) Wu, Junxi (Co-investigator)
- 01-Oct-2023 - 31-Mar-2025
- Real-time Digital Twin Assisted Surgery (DTAS)
- Shu, Will (Principal Investigator) Kazakidi, Asimina (Co-investigator) Luo, Xichun (Co-investigator) Connolly, Patricia (Co-investigator) Stewart, Grant D (Co-investigator) Tsaftaris, Sotiris (Co-investigator) O'Neil, Kevin (Co-investigator)
- EPSRC Transformative Healthcare Technology (THT) Phase 2 grant (EP/X033686/1)
Award: ~£4M, fEC: ~£4.9M (1 of only 5 funded projects in the UK) - 01-Sep-2023 - 31-Aug-2027
- Real-time Digital Twin Assisted Surgery
- Shu, Will (Principal Investigator) Connolly, Patricia (Co-investigator) Kazakidi, Asimina (Co-investigator) Luo, Xichun (Co-investigator)
- 01-Sep-2023 - 31-Aug-2027
- BIO-ART: Multiscale understanding of BIOfilms and microBIOmes in Acute Recurrent Tonsillitis (Fellowship for Catriona Douglas, NHS)
- McConnell, Gail (Principal Investigator) Hoskisson, Paul (Co-investigator) Shu, Will (Co-investigator)
- 09-Jun-2023 - 08-Jun-2026
- Digital twin guided minimally invasive, intelligent and intuitive surgery (MI-3 Surgery)
- Shu, Will (Principal Investigator) Kazakidi, Asimina (Co-investigator) Luo, Xichun (Co-investigator)
- 01-Oct-2021 - 01-Jun-2023