Translating clinical insight into biomechanics engineering innovation
We partner with clinicians to define unmet needs, design bespoke medical devices, and discover new ways to measure and improve human movement.
Explore our areas of expertise
We work across medical engineering, biomechanics, healthcare technologies, and user-centred design to develop solutions that respond to real clinical needs and improve patient outcomes.
Clinical Collaboration
Partnering with healthcare professionals to identify and solve high-impact, unmet needs.
Biomechanical Analysis
Utilizing advanced measurement tools to decode complex human movement.
User-Centred Design
Placing the patient and clinician at the centre of the engineering process.
Adaptive Technology
Rapidly prototyping and “flexing” engineering solutions to fit specific medical contexts.
Innovations designed for pressure management and prevention
Our current technology development focuses on insole based solutions that help clinicians and users better understand, monitor, and reduce pressure related risk. From advanced sensing to active pressure redistribution, these innovations are designed to improve prevention, comfort, and patient outcomes.
Smart Insoles
Sensing compressive stress, shear stress and temperature for diabetic foot ulceration risk management.
These smart insoles are designed to provide deeper insight into pressure related risk, supporting earlier detection, better monitoring, and more informed clinical decision making.
Real-time pressure insight
Measures stress, shear and temperature
Supports diabetic foot risk management
Shape Changing Insoles
Actively changing shape to minimise peak plantar pressure and pressure time integral.
This technology is being developed to better manage foot pressure in conditions such as diabetes and ageing, helping to prevent foot pain and ulceration through adaptive response.
Active pressure redistribution
Designed for prevention
Supports comfort and offloading
Applications across healthcare and human movement
Diabetic Foot
Supporting earlier detection and better management of plantar pressure, shear stress, and temperature to help reduce ulceration risk and improve patient outcomes.
Prosthetics
Exploring pressure-related challenges in prosthetic use, with a focus on comfort, fit, and better understanding of load at the limb interface.
Exoskeletons
Investigating how contact pressure insight could support safer, more comfortable use of wearable assistive technologies in clinical and human movement settings
Meet the team behind MME Lab
Manchester Medical Engineering Lab is led by Dr Glen Cooper and Professor Andy Weightman, supported by post-doctoral researchers and a growing PhD team advancing work across biomechanics, healthcare technologies, robotics, and user-centred design.
Academic Leads
Post Doctoral Researchers
PhD Researchers
Flagship Projects
Partner with MME Lab
We welcome opportunities to collaborate with clinicians, researchers, healthcare organisations, and innovation partners to identify unmet needs and develop impactful medical engineering solutions.