Professor Andreas Melzer

Skills/Experience

Professor Melzer has 20 years of experience in the development of medical technology for laparo-endoscopic surgery, interventional radiology, interventional & intraoperative MRI and image guided robotics, surgical instrumentation, surgical robotics and Nitinol devices and is named on more than 100 patents and over 200 publications, more than 500 oral and poster presentations. His major expertise is the development of novel surgical and interventional tools with particular regard to MR compatibility. He has served as co editor of three medical journals, Co-founder and partner of six start up companies in the medical technology for MRI field and consultant for major vendors in interventional medicine. He serves as organizer or chairman of various medical conferences and board member of six medical and technical societies. He currently is Professor of Medical Technology and Director of IMSaT, GE's first European Centre of Excellence for MRI guided Interventions and Surgery

Role in the Project

Professor Melzer is the coordinator of the IIIOS project and will be involved in the supervision and training of IIIOS researchers both in Dundee and across the network.