The course "Biomechanics and Mechanobiology" introduces students to biomechanics as the study of movement in living matter at all scales of the human body (from molecules through tissues and organs to the movement of the body itself) and expands the concept of biomechanics to include explanations of processes that maintain physiological homeostasis, such as remodeling and adaptation. Attention is also given to the causes and mechanical contexts of the onset and progression of diseases and their implications for biomechanics, particularly of the musculoskeletal and cardiovascular systems.

1. Biomechanics: motion at all scales
2. Biomechanics of cell
3. Tissues
4. Muscle contraction and its mathematical description
5. Load carrying tissues
6. Continuum mechanics (strain and stress)
7. Constitutive description of tissues
8. Adaptation and remodeling
9. Bone as an example
10. Biomechanics of the circulatory system
11. Mechanobiology of the blood vessels
12. Inflammation
13. Pathobiomechanics of the circulation

Taber LA (2020) Continuum Modeling in Mechanobiology. Springer Cham.
Pivonka P (2018) Multiscale Mechanobiology of Bone Remodeling and Adaptation. Springer Cham.

Students must attend 80% of the class sessions and prepare a presentation, which we will discuss during the exam. Students will choose their own presentation topic from a list that will be posted in the second half of the course.