Several research entities within the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, affiliated with various departments, conduct groundbreaking and internationally renowned scientific research within various subdomains of biomedical engineering. The Institute of Biomedical Engineering (iBME) aims to strengthen Ghent University's position as a leading institute in biomedical engineering and to increase the field's internal and external visibility among students, researchers, hospitals, the biomedical industry, patients and healthcare providers, policymakers, and others, both domestically and internationally. Research activities within iBME, typically in collaboration with medical partners, include: - Multiscale models of organ systems - Virtual human twins - Advanced hearing technology - Neurophysiological modeling and neural interfaces - Preoperative planning and medical decision support tools - Mechanics of biofluids, soft tissues, and medical devices - Advanced medical image and signal analysis - Data science and artificial intelligence - Molecular-scale modeling of biomolecules - Design of (pre)clinical imaging systems - (Pre)clinical biomarker imaging for personalized medicine - Human-environment interaction - Micro- and nanotechnology, microfluidics, sensors and (optical) chips - Biomaterials, surface engineering and functionalisation - ...