Dr Mo Sanami

Dr Mohammad Sanami is currently a Reader/Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the School of Engineering. He graduated with a BEng and MSc in Technology of Textile Engineering in 2006. Following the completion of his MSc, he worked part-time as a lecturer at the University. He also worked in the automotive industry for two years. He turned to Medical engineering based on his interests in using finite element analyses (FEA) and simulation methods for biomedical applications. He was awarded his second MSc in Medical Engineering from The University of Hull in 2009. His PhD thesis at the University of Bolton has been based on developing smart materials for biomedical applications.

From April 2015, he was a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, where he was working on the intra-abdominal platform system to aid retraction in laparoscopic surgery. He worked closely with industry partners and a clinical advisory group to develop and validate a complete system for commercialisation. Since May 2017 he has returned to the University of Bolton and taken a new role as a programme leader of Biomedical Engineering.

Since 2017 he has secured and managed funding in the area of Biomedical Engineering. He is a Senior Fellow of HEA, a Fellow of IMMM, and a full member of IPEM. Since 2016 he has been a charted engineer and member of IMechE.

His research has resulted in five UK innovation patents so far in implants, deployable devices, production of continuous collagen filaments, vascular grafts, and telescopic magnetic retractors.