Dr Giovanni Biglino
Current positions
Associate Professor in Biological Sciences
Bristol Medical School (THS)
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
UKRI2582 Mending Broken Hearts: Transdisciplinary Approaches from Art, Medicine, and Cultural Studies
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (THS)Dates
01/10/2025 to 30/09/2028
UKRI2582 Mending Broken Hearts: Transdisciplinary Approaches from Art, Medicine, and Cultural Studies
Principal Investigator
Role
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Religion and TheologyDates
01/10/2025 to 30/09/2028
Holding my heart
Principal Investigator
Description
This is an interdisciplinary exploration of the role that 3D medical technologies can play in exploring one’s identity 3D medical models and the emotional implications that these can carry. We…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (THS)Dates
01/03/2022 to 28/10/2022
How to Mend a Broken Heart: Metaphors and Co-Creation
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Funded by The Brigstow Institute, this developmental workshop will involve a small group of postmenopausal women with takotsubo cardiomyopathy under follow up at Bristol Heart Institute to gain better insight…Managing organisational unit
Department of EnglishDates
20/04/2018 to 31/07/2018
Towards a Narrative Cardiology
Principal Investigator
Description
Funded by a British Heart Foundation Small Meeting Grant, this is a one-day event on the application of narrative medicine to cardiology, with talks by patients, healthcare professionals and academics…Managing organisational unit
Department of EnglishDates
18/12/2017 to 31/07/2018
Thesis supervisions
Designing and 3D Printing Improved Patches for Patients Undergoing Surgical Repair of Congenital Heart Disease
Supervisors
Exploration of the multi-scale nature of bicuspid aortic valve aortopathy
Supervisors
Storytelling Healers
Supervisors
Decellularisation and stem cell tissue engineering of valved right ventricular outflow tract xenografts for correction of tetralogy of Fallot
Supervisors
Physiological Mechanisms underlying Blood Pressure related Hypoalgesia
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
01/04/2026Computational analysis of mechanical performance for 3D-printed biodegradable PLA cardiovascular stents
Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials
Computed tomography can assess aortic valve stenosis by planimetry, enhances the continuity equation, reveals an anatomical ratio that mimics the dimensionless velocity index and demonstrates limitations in the use of calcification in stenosis severity assessment.
Clinical Radiology
3D Printing of Biodegradable Polymer Vascular Stents to Treat Cardiovascular Diseases: A review
Additive Manufacturing
A scoping review of literature about 3D printing
3D Printing in Medicine
Development of a Novel Hierarchically Biofabricated Blood Vessel Mimic Decorated with Three Vascular Cell Populations for the Reconstruction of Small-Diameter Arteries
Advanced Functional Materials
Related people
Dr Tom Johnson
Associate Professor in Cardiology
Bristol Medical School (THS)
Professor Gianni Angelini
BHF Professor of Cardiac Surgery and Director
Bristol Medical School (THS)
Professor Massimo Caputo
Professor of Congenital Heart Surgery
Bristol Medical School (THS)
Dr Sandra Neumann
Honorary Research Fellow
Bristol Medical School (THS)
Dr James Armstrong
Associate Professor in Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
Bristol Medical School (THS)