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Prof Becky Shipley OBE

Chief Research Officer and AHSC Director

Prof Becky Shipley OBE oversees the development of our partnership work in research and early phase innovation. She joined UCLPartners in April 2024.

With a background in mathematics and engineering, Becky’s roles have included Director of the UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Vice Dean (Health) for the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences.

In addition to her UCLPartners role Becky is currently Professor of Healthcare Engineering at UCL. Her research lies in the development of model-based techniques to better understand how diseased and damaged tissues function and repair, including in cancer and nerve injury, as well as data-driven models for predicting (patho)physiology. Becky is a passionate advocate for healthcare engineering and the translation of scientific discoveries into practice. Becky is Co-Director of CHIMERA – a research centre that brings together mathematics, statistics, engineering and computational sciences to develop new data-driven models of human physiology, to inform clinical design making in intensive care. She is also co-lead for the UCLH-UCL BRC Healthcare Engineering & Imaging Theme, and lead for the newly-funded EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Health Technologies.

Becky was awarded an OBE in 2021 for her role during the COVID-19 pandemic in designing and manufacturing non-invasive breathing aids for people with the disease. These breathing aids, known as UCL-Ventura, have been deployed to over 130 NHS hospitals to treat patients as well as across 30 countries.