• Question: Computer science already aids some medical scenarios is it likely that in the future these two disciplines will be viewed as biomedical engineering?

    Asked by n3rdy to Gopal, Becky on 28 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Rebecca Cook

      Rebecca Cook answered on 28 Jun 2013:


      I think so, in my field of cancer research computer science is very common place. Biological experiments can produced thousands, maybe millions of data points now and we need lots of computer programming to analyse this but also modelling plays a role in cancer research. There are scientists that use model to predict which drugs will work best to inhibit particular proteins!

      I wish I knew more about computer science and programming, it would help me in my work quite a bit! Instead I spend hours copying and pasting into excel 🙁

    • Photo: Gopal Ramchurn

      Gopal Ramchurn answered on 28 Jun 2013:


      Biomedical engineering relies a lot on mechanical engineering, computational modelling, and biology/biochemistry. So, yes, you could say that biomedical engineering will have bits of these disciplines but not just these two.

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