Biomedical engineering alliance

Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU) and the University of Sydney have agreed to invest $1 million each in a biomedical engineering partnership.

Both universities signed an agreement to consolidate the project, which will involve joint research, information exchange and academic mobility.

The agreement, signed by Dr Michael Spence, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney, and Professor Jiang Sixian, Party Secretary and Chair of the University Council at SJTU, places another building block in the growing relationship between the two universities.

The research collaborators from the University of Sydney include the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies, Sydney Medical School and the Charles Perkins Centre, which has a research focus on obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The research collaborators from SJTU include the School of Biomedical Engineering, the School of Medicine and the Translational Medicine Research Centre.

“Researchers in this faculty have been collaborating with Shanghai Jiaotong for close to a decade, with joint programs in cancer, genetics, infectious diseases, child health and education,” said Professor Bruce Robinson, Dean of Sydney Medical School. “The new alliance will further strengthen our partnership in addressing common challenges facing both Australia and China.”