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Professor Edward Meinert

Professor Edward Meinert is a Chartered Engineer and leading researcher in digital health and clinical artificial intelligence. He is Professor at Newcastle University, where he directs the DEPTH AI Lab, having secured over £7 million in research funding to develop and evaluate technologies that support better health outcomes across the population. He is a member of the Newcastle NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR BRC) Informatics and Precision Care for an Ageing Population and Digital Health, Ageing Innovation and Inclusion themes and serves as Theme Lead for AI Safety in Digital Health at the Centre for AI Safety of the National Edge AI Hub, promoting the responsible use of AI in critical sectors.

Professor Meinert is Co-Founder and CEO of Gnosis Health Limited, a 2025 spin-out from Newcastle University supported by institutional and private capital. The company builds AI-driven clinical monitoring and self-management tools for people living with chronic conditions, and was incubated at both the UKRI Trusted and Autonomous Systems Robotics and AI Accelerator and the Harvard Innovation Labs Stealth Programme.

Professor Meinert’s research spans clinical AI, digital health interventions, and the use of wearable and sensor technologies to create connected personal health systems. His work aims to generate the evidence needed to improve technology design, influence policy, and shape safe and effective regulation. He leads large, collaborative projects bringing together universities, healthcare providers, and industry partners, and is an author of over 100 publications, a patent application, and nine academic prizes.

A strong advocate for early-career researchers, Professor Meinert supervises postdoctoral fellows, PhD students, master’s students, and undergraduate medical students. His mentees have secured roles at leading institutions and companies such as Imperial College London, AstraZeneca, KPMG, and PA Consulting, and have been awarded prestigious fellowships, academic honours, and distinctions. Many of his students have published their research in top journals, often as first authors. In addition to his research supervision, he supports the academic and personal development of Year 1 and 2 medical students in his role as a pastoral tutor.

Professor Meinert holds degrees spanning software engineering, theology, business, public administration, clinical medicine, and public health from the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, the London School of Economics, and Harvard University.