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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.
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 [...]
Samuel Stupp | Via Northwestern University |
June 11, 2026
Shape-shifting liquid transforms into an energy-rich gel that stores power for months Northwestern University scientists have developed a new liquid material that charges like a battery, transforms like a living organism and then resets itself in open air. Traditionally, harvesting energy, storing it, and using it require separate materials or devices. The new platform merges [...]
Trey Ideker | Via Inside Precision Medicine |
May 27, 2026
As genomic sequencing becomes routine in oncology, clinicians are increasingly inundated with tumor mutation data—but often without clear guidance on how to use it. A new artificial intelligence foundation model called MutationProjector may help bridge that gap by transforming complex tumor mutation profiles into clinically meaningful representations that can predict treatment response, classify cancer subtypes, [...]
Teja Guda | Via UT San Antonio |
May 26, 2026
For patients suffering from traumatic injuries that leave behind “volumetric” gaps — where significant bone and blood vessels are lost — the clock is always ticking. Without a nearby blood supply, cells in the center of a large injury cannot survive, often leading to permanent tissue loss or failed grafts. A team of eight scientists [...]
Yubin Zhou | Via Bioengineer.org |
May 21, 2026
In a remarkable breakthrough that could reshape cellular immunotherapy and broaden our understanding of calcium signaling, researchers at Texas A&M Health have engineered genetically encoded peptide inhibitors to precisely modulate a critical calcium entry pathway in cells. Their pioneering work targets the store-operated calcium entry (SOCE) mechanism, a central conduit through which calcium ions enter [...]
Elana Fertig | Via University of Maryland School of Medicine |
May 21, 2026
In an unexpected finding, a new study flips on its head researchers’ understanding of how precancerous pancreas lesions evolve into pancreatic cancer. The paradigm-changing discovery has tremendous implications for identifying people at higher risk of cancer or even, potentially stopping malignant transformation. In a study just out in the American Association for Cancer Research’s journal [...]
Azad Madni | Via USC Viterbi |
May 20, 2026
Professor Azad Madni has been selected as an International Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), joining an elite group of engineers recognized for their outstanding contributions and strategic leadership in addressing issues of global significance. As Northrop Grumman Foundation Fred O’Green Chair in Engineering, and University Professor at USC Viterbi‘s Department of Astronautical [...]
Azad Madni | Via Linkedin |
May 20, 2026
We are excited to announce that Professor Azad Madni was awarded the Albert Holzman Distinguished Educator Award at the IISE Annual Conference in Arlington, TX. This award recognizes educators who contributed significantly to the profession through teaching, research and publication, extension, innovation, or administration. Dr. Madni is a Professor of Astronautics, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering [...]
Lydia Sohn | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News |
April 24, 2026
A study headed by researchers at City of Hope and the University of California, Berkeley has found that physical and mechanical properties of normal human mammary epithelial cells can offer a “functional readout” of biological age and breast cancer susceptibility. The team created a novel, high-throughput microfluidic platform that can assess women’s breast cancer risk [...]
Mriganka Sur | Via Rett Syndrome News |
April 22, 2026
Different mutations can have different effects on brain cell activity Different mutations that cause Rett syndrome can have divergent effects on brain cell activity, a study found. The findings “hold promise for understanding mutation-specific mechanisms of Rett syndrome, and developing targeted mutation-specific therapeutics,” the researchers wrote. Through a series of experiments using cell models, the [...]
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic | Via EurekAlert |
April 20, 2026
Chronic lung inflammation in cystic fibrosis (CF) often persists even after treatment with newly-approved gene therapies or small molecule CFTR modulators—an unresolved clinical paradox. A new study published in EXO - Beyond the Cell identifies a potential explanation: inflammation is driven not only by intrinsic defects in immune cells, but also by lasting changes in [...]
Sangeeta Bhatia | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News |
April 20, 2026
Damage to the liver in patients developing end-stage liver disease has become too severe for the organ’s normally extraordinary regenerative capacity to repair or compensate for that damage. Once this point of no return has been reached the only option is an organ transplant. However, donor livers are in high demand and very limited supply. [...]
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