About Us

At the Griffith Centre of Biomedical and Rehabilitation Engineering (GCORE), we are developing innovative technologies to prevent and manage various neuromusculoskeletal and cardiovascular conditions. Our research encompasses areas of biomedical and rehabilitation science, design, and engineering. A/Prof. Laura Diamond and A/Prof. David Saxby are fusing medical imaging and motion capture to create Personalised Digital Humans to estimate localised stresses and strains in musculoskeletal tissues such as cartilage and tendon.

Our Highlights

NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellowship and Young Tall Poppy Award for Smart technology for hip osteoarthritis: a personalised real-world ‘move’ into the future.

A/Prof. Diamond was awarded an NHMRC Investigator grant (EL1) and a Young Tall Poppy Science Award for her achievements as an outstanding young scientific researcher and communicator. Dr Diamond is designing and testing a new treatment for hip osteoarthritis (OA). This project will test the efficacy of a co-designed ‘smart’ therapeutic intervention for people with hip OA in the real-world. Its focus will include integrating cutting-edge neuromusculoskeletal models with advanced wearable technology and artificial intelligence to push technological boundaries and escape the laboratory for the first time to intervene on a known mechanism of disease.

ARC DECRA Award for Fusing wearables and advanced computational models for real world analysis.

A/Prof. David Saxby, Chief Investigator of ARC CMIT from Griffith University was awarded an ARC DECRA. His project aims to solve a major technological problem: our inability to study human skeletal, muscular, and neural function in the real world. The project expects to, for the first time globally, integrate wearable sensors with neuromusculoskeletal computational models and artificial intelligence, and validate this technology. Expected project outcomes include an integrated system for future commercialisation and new understanding of how whole-body behavioural choices affect tissue mechanics during daily and sporting activities. Project outcomes should provide significant benefits, such as the ability to escape the laboratory to understand human performance for defence, sport, industrial, and health settings.