Clinical and Experimental Research in Cardiology

Prof. Qian has 30 years continuous experience in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) research. He has worked in the field of circulatory assist and was instrumental in the development of the artificial heart program. He primarily developed the CFD technique which was employed for blood pump design. Dr. Qian has developed CFD techniques for application to research in studies of haemodynamics and mechanisms of rupture of cerebral aneurysms. He has developed novel methodologies for improvement cardiovascular and cerebrovascular surgical method. These have begun to be applied in pilot studies to assess the clinical applicability. The haemodynamic system has been applied to over 300 patients, and has been introduced into daily clinical diagnosis. He has over 10 years international industry R&D and management experience. Since Qian moved back to academic research from industry in 2004, he has successfully obtained over $4 million research support from government research funding. Since then, he published over 100 high quality research papers.

Blood flow biomechanics in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, Cardiovascular and Neurovascular blood flow, Cardiovascular surgery support and training device, neurovascular and cardiovascular surgical and endovascular devices R&D, Computational fluid dynamics (haemodynamics), Blood flow visualization, and in-vitro, in-vivo validation and calibration tests, and Artificial organs etc.