Fellowbook News
AIMBE Fellowbook collects news stories highlighting the members of the AIMBE College of Fellows. Read the latest stories, jump to the College Directory, or search below to find the newest research, awards, announcements and more for the leaders of the medical and biological engineering community.
Sergiu Pasca | Via Stanford Medicine |
September 16, 2026
Stanford Medicine scientists have chalked up a major advance in growing human brain cells outside of the human brain — and outside of laboratory glassware. In a study published online Sept. 16 in Nature, the researchers succeeded in transplanting self-organizing bits of laboratory-grown human brain tissue called cortical organoids into mice specially bioengineered and bred [...]
Thomas Yankeelov | Via Medscape |
September 16, 2026
Electrophysiologist Jonathan Chrispin, MD, wanted to do more. He was standing in the electrophysiology lab at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, catheter in hand, about to ablate a patient’s ventricular tachycardia (VT) — a potentially fatal arrhythmia caused by electrical circuits looping through scar tissue left behind by a heart attack. In a standard procedure, [...]
Natalia Trayanova | Via Medscape |
September 16, 2026
Electrophysiologist Jonathan Chrispin, MD, wanted to do more. He was standing in the electrophysiology lab at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, catheter in hand, about to ablate a patient’s ventricular tachycardia (VT) — a potentially fatal arrhythmia caused by electrical circuits looping through scar tissue left behind by a heart attack. In a standard procedure, [...]
Rory Cooper | Via Saudi Press Agency |
September 10, 2026
Chairman of the Board of the King Salman International Award for Disability Research Ahmed Al-Rajhi announced the winners of the fourth edition of the award, which attracted broad international participation, with 770 nominations received from 111 countries across all six continents, representing more than half of the world’s countries. Al-Rajhi emphasized that the fourth edition [...]
Rocky Tuan | Via Solaris Symposium |
September 3, 2026
Connecting Global Minds, Transforming Human Health The 2027 Solaris Symposium – Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine invites international scientists, bioengineers, biotechnology experts, clinician-scientists, regenerative medicine specialists, and both established and young investigators to Hong Kong to attend a cutting-edge, engaging and broad-ranging event on 14-17 January, 2027. The 2027 Solaris Symposium is dedicated to [...]
Feng Yue | Via Northwestern University |
September 2, 2026
Northwestern Medicine scientists have developed a novel high-resolution spatial genomics platform that may enhance future research about how genome organization and genetic alterations contribute to the development of disease, including cancer, as detailed in a recent study published in Nature Methods. “What is particularly exciting is that we can simultaneously profile 3D genome organization and [...]
Eric Perreault | Via Morgridge Institute for Research |
September 1, 2026
Eric Perreault, a research executive, academic leader and biomedical engineering professor at Northwestern University, has been selected as the third chief executive officer of the Morgridge Institute for Research, beginning early in 2027. The Morgridge Institute is an independent biomedical research organization closely affiliated with the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with the purpose of advancing frontiers [...]
Shreyas Vasanawala | Via Children's Hospital Association |
August 26, 2026
An infant with congenital heart disease was deteriorating at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford despite multiple open-heart surgeries. His heart was enlarged and not pumping properly, but traditional imaging couldn’t explain why. A high-resolution MRI technique built on AI modeling revealed a subtle abnormality the other imaging couldn’t see. The surgeons quickly corrected it, and [...]
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic | Via EurekAlert |
August 19, 2026
Cancer spreading beyond the primary tumor – a process known as metastasis – is responsible for at least two-thirds of cancer deaths. Drugs targeting the metastatic progression have largely failed, in part due to the lack of predictive models that would help identify the underlying mechanisms of metastasis. While animal models have led to key [...]
Xudong Wang | Via Inside Precision Medicine |
August 19, 2026
Scientists have developed a battery-free pacemaker with the potential to last a patient’s entire lifetime, reducing risks and costs of replacement. In a study published in Science Advances, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) report the first heartbeat-powered pacemaker capable of generating enough energy to offer a feasible alternative to conventional battery-powered devices. “One [...]
Diane Joseph-McCarthy | Via Boston University |
August 13, 2026
Designing an effective antibody drug is like searching for the right key in a warehouse of locks. Scientists may begin with million— or even billions—of antibody candidates, but only a tiny fraction will recognize and bind tightly to the disease target. Identifying those rare candidates has long been one of the biggest challenges in developing [...]
Savio Woo | Via University of Pittsburgh |
August 4, 2026
Savio L-Y. Woo, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering, has been named the inaugural recipient of the WACBE Yuan-Cheng (Y. C.) Fung Lifetime Achievement Award by the World Association for Chinese Biomedical Engineers (WACBE). This honor is the highest distinction conferred by WACBE, established to recognize [...]
Aliasger Salem | Via The Conversation |
July 23, 2026
Most Americans don’t read the rules that govern the federal grants funding science. Those rules, called the Uniform Guidance, shape how cancer research is funded, graduate students are trained, clinical trials are sustained, universities stock their labs and discoveries from those labs move into broader society. When the Trump administration announced on May 29, 2026, [...]
Jian Ma | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News |
July 23, 2026
While Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia, many of the molecular mechanisms that drive its progression remain poorly understood. While researchers have cataloged changes in gene activity across different brain cell types, a key unanswered question has been how the genome’s 3D organization influences those changes. Now, researchers have linked alterations in [...]
Shana Kelley | Via Northwestern Medicine |
July 23, 2026
A new study from Northwestern Medicine investigators, in collaboration with Biohub, a program of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, has identified potential drug targets for treating psoriasis, according to the study published in Nature Communications. The study was led by Shana Kelley, PhD, the Neena B. Schwartz Professor of Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Biochemistry and Molecular [...]
Abhishek Jain | Via Texas A&M University |
July 17, 2026
A first-of-its-kind device that replicates human blood flow waveforms in the lab opens doors for advancing the study of vascular diseases, discovering drugs and supporting safe space travel. For more than 25 years, lab-on-a-chip technology has allowed researchers to model human organs and blood vessels by using real human cells in artificial microscopic environments. These [...]
Daniel Rueckert | Via Imperial College London |
June 26, 2026
Artificial intelligence is increasingly used to support diagnosis and treatment in healthcare. However, a new study published in Nature, involving researchers from Imperial College London’s Department of Computing, shows that these systems can unintentionally reveal whether a person’s data was used to train them. Working with collaborators at the Technical University of Munich and the [...]
Jonathan Lovell | Via University at Buffalo |
June 26, 2026
University at Buffalo researchers are developing a single shot for flu, COVID-19 and RSV Flu season is no longer just flu season. Since 2022, the health care community has faced what’s known as a “tripledemic” of seasonal influenza, COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). That may mean that the flu shot needs to become more [...]
Arezoo Ardekani | Via Purdue University |
June 22, 2026
Label-free, noninvasive framework enables robust, scalable classification of liposomal drug carriers A patent-pending innovation created and validated in Purdue University’s College of Engineering could strengthen pharmaceutical research and development in the areas of batch verification, encapsulation efficiency screening and regulatory compliance workflows. Mechanical engineering professor Arezoo Ardekani and her doctoral student Kaeul Lim have leveraged [...]
Quing Zhu | Via Technology Networks |
June 22, 2026
A three-second optical scan could help detect endometrial cancer without a painful biopsy. Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic cancer, with more than 69,000 cases diagnosed in the U.S. in 2025 and increasing up to 3% annually. Diagnosis requires an often painful and invasive biopsy that carries a risk of false negatives. A multidisciplinary [...]
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