Engineering for health uses a wide range of skills to tackle societal challenges in disease prevention, diagnostics, therapeutics and rehabilitation. This interdisciplinary field combines medicine, biology and engineering to find affordable and sustainable solutions in response to an aging society. In collaboration with clinics, research results are translated into novel methods and technologies that improve health and medical care.

IEPE covers a wide range of health-related topics:

• Drug delivery
• Organ perfusion and regeneration
• Wearable health technology
• Biomarker sensing
• Contrast agents
• Artificial heart designs
• Wound healing
• Blood purification