UCL Medical-Modelling Group

The Medical-Modelling Group at UCL encompasses a team of applied mathematicians, engineers and clinicians working on a variety of medical problems, principally by developing models of disease to guide clinical intervention.

NEXT MEETING - Weds 30th Nov at 2pm-4pm:

The next meeting of the MMG will be on Wednesday 30th November at 2pm in Room 707, 7th Floor, 25 Gordon St - new people are welcome. Please email Nick Ovenden or Frank Smith if you wish to attend.

The last meeting of the MMG was on Wednesday 30th March 2011. Details of the talks and previous MMG meetings can be found here.

Current members belong to

The group is also affliated to the Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology (CoMPLEX).

Steering Committee

Prof Frank T. Smith MA DPhil FRS

Department of Mathematics, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

Email: frank@math.ucl.ac.uk

Mr Neil Kitchen MD FRCS (SN)

Victor Horsley Department of Neurosurgery, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG.

Email: neil.kitchen@uclh.nhs.uk

Dr Nick Ovenden BSc PhD

Department of Mathematics, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.

Email: nicko@math.ucl.ac.uk

Prof Guo Xiong Wu MSc PhD

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College London, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE.

Email: gx_wu@meng.ucl.ac.uk

For more information about the group's research, please select one the options in the left-hand menu. Alternatively, contact one of the members of the steering committee above.

This page last modified17 November, 2011 by Nick Ovenden


An angiogram of a patient with an Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM). The AVM is the tangled mess of small vessels located on the right side of the picture.

A trace of the unsteady flow velocity over time in a major artery at the base of the brain using Doppler ultrasound.
Figures reproduced with permission from the National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery