Welcoming the new Chair of the IOM3 Biomedical Applications Group
Professor Elizabeth Tanner was elected Chair by voting.
Earlier this month, the IOM3 Board ratified the Nominations Committee's recommendation to elect Professor Elizabeth Tanner OBE FRS FREng FIMMM as the Chair of the Biomedical Applications Group.
Professor Tanner is currently the Bonfield Professor of Biomedical Materials at Queen Mary University of London. She has been involved in biomaterials since her postdoc years at Queen Mary, progressing through the academic ranks from Research Assistant to Professor of Biomaterials at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre (IRC) in Biomedical Materials. In 2007, she joined the University of Glasgow, leading the development and launch of their MSc and the first BEng and MEng degrees in Biomedical Engineering in Scotland. During her time in Glasgow, Professor Tanner was also President of the Scottish Association of Metals (2011-2013). In 2018, she returned to Queen Mary to take up the Bonfield Chair named after Professor Bill Bonfield, the founding Chair of the Biomedical Applications Division (BMAD), the predecessor to BMAG.
Professor Tanner is delighted to chair the Biomedical Applications Group, having acted as the link person between the Biomedical Engineering Divisions of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and IOM3 in the 2000s.
Currently, she is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Engineering in Medicine (IMechE-BMAD) and has a first-hand appreciation for the complementary work of IOM3-BMAG and IMechE-BMAD.
Professor Tanner aims to bolster links between these two groups and build on the interdisciplinary strengths of the biomedical engineering field, including biomaterials. She says, 'I’m looking forward to building links within IOM3 and beyond to the benefit of UK biomedical applications and biomaterials'.
During her term, she would also strengthen ties with the UK Society for Biomaterials and the European Society for Biomaterials – both learned research-led organisations whose work in the field has spanned decades. Links with the UK Biomedical Devices Industry will also be essential to include the users of biomaterials. Finally, and most importantly, Professor Tanner aims to strengthen links with the other groups within IOM3 who cover polymers, elastomers, composites and ceramics – the materials used as biomaterials. A series of combined meetings, held in hybrid mode, will allow for intergroup discussion and collaboration, without excluding members who do not find it easy to travel to London.
Please join us in congratulating and welcoming Professor Elizabeth Tanner.
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