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Alper Receives TAMEST’s 2019 O’Donnell Award in Engineering
Hal S. Alper | Via The University of Texas at Austin | November 14, 2018Hal S. Alper, Ph.D. is the recipient of the 2019 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Engineering from TAMEST (The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas). Dr. Alper’s research looks for sustainable ways to create new molecules that can be used for plastics, drugs and other products that typically require petroleum products as […]
Moths and magnets could save lives
Gang Bao | Via Rice University | November 12, 2018A new technology that relies on a moth-infecting virus and nanomagnets could be used to edit defective genes that give rise to diseases like sickle cell, muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis. Rice University bioengineer Gang Bao has combined magnetic nanoparticles with a viral container drawn from a particular species of moth to deliver CRISPR/Cas9 payloads […]
Researchers Develop ‘Bio-patch’ to Monitor Post-surgical Success of Breast Reconstruction
Guang-Zhong Yang | Via Breastcancer News | November 9, 2018An international team of researchers has developed a wireless device that can detect early problems after a patient undergoes breast reconstruction surgery. The work, led by Imperial College London in the U.K., and funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), was part of the Smart Sensing for Surgery project. Breast reconstruction surgery […]
Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust commits $12 million to the UI College of Engineering to improve human health
Joseph Reinhardt | Via University of IOWA | November 8, 2018The Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust has committed a transformational $12 million grant to fund life-changing research and discoveries in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the University of Iowa College of Engineering. With this grant, the department will build on its exceptional contributions to the field of pulmonary and respiratory biomedicine to find solutions […]
Martine LaBerge honored as Fellow by the Biomedical Engineering Society
Martine LaBerge | Via Clemson University | November 1, 2018Martine LaBerge of Clemson University is one of the newest Fellows in the Biomedical Engineering Society, an honor recognizing her for exceptional achievements and experience in biomedical engineering. LaBerge is chair of the Department of Bioengineering at Clemson and executive director of the Clemson University Biomedical Engineering Innovation Campus, or CUBEInC, in Greenville. She is […]
Northwestern Engineering’s Guillermo Ameer Receives Key to Panama City, Panama
Guillermo Ameer | Via Northwestern University | October 31, 2018Northwestern Engineering’s Guillermo Ameer, a pioneer in the field of regenerative engineering, was presented the Key to Panama City, Panama, by Vice Mayor Raisa Banfield last week. The event was covered by Telemetro, a national Spanish-language television network based in Panama City. Ameer, the Daniel Hale Williams Professor of Biomedical Engineering with the McCormick School […]
Myoscience Announces the Completion of Enrollment in the Campbell Clinic Study
William Mihalko | Via PRWeb | October 31, 2018Myoscience, Inc. announced today that it has completed enrollment in its randomized, controlled trial at the Campbell Clinic in Memphis, Tennessee. This study enrolled 125 patients and compares the effect of cryoanalgesia using the iovera° system to the standard of care for managing pain after total knee replacement surgery (TKA). The Myoscience iovera° system is […]
Laser-activated silk sealants outperform sutures for tissue repair
Kaushal Rege | Via MD Linx | October 31, 2018NIBIB-funded researchers have developed laser-activated nanomaterials that integrate with wounded tissues to form seals that are superior to sutures for containing body fluids and preventing bacterial infection. Tissue repair following injury or during surgery is conventionally performed with sutures and staples, which can cause tissue damage and complications, including infection. Glues and adhesives have been […]
Nicholas Peppas Wins Prestigious AAPS Pharmaceutical Scientist Award
Nicholas Peppas | Via University of Texas at Austin | October 30, 2018Nicholas A. Peppas, professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering’s Department of Biomedical Engineering and McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, as well as in UT’s Dell Medical School and College of Pharmacy, has been named the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists’ (AAPS) Distinguished Award winner for 2018. He is honored for his pioneering work in […]
The Key to Healthy Humans, Safe Spacecraft and Prospering Plants
Wolfgang Fink | Via The University of Arizona College of Engineering | October 29, 2018Wolfgang Fink (Right) has always had a knack for seeing how the pieces of a puzzle fit together. Once, when a team of researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory was stumped on how to fix a problematic planetary rover arm, he suggested using a method he’d developed to improve the function of proteins, pointing out […]
UVA Creates a Simple Way to Solve the Complex Mysteries of the Microbiome
Jason Papin | Via University of Virginia | October 25, 2018This much is clear: The tiny bacteria that live on and inside us are tremendously important for our health and well-being, affecting everything from our mood to the risk of autism. But understanding how those multitudes of microbes interact – and how they influence human health – is a gargantuan task, akin to counting the […]
Reinhart-King receives the inaugural BMES Mid-Career Award
Cynthia Reinhart-King | Via Vanderbilt University | October 25, 2018Cynthia A. Reinhart-King, a nationally recognized cellular bioengineer, is the inaugural recipient of the Biomedical Engineering Society’s Mid-Career Award. Reinhart-King delivered the award lecture Saturday, Oct. 20, at the BMES 2018 Annual Meeting in Atlanta. Reinhart-King received the 2010 Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award and she is the only person to have received two of […]
ENG’s Xin Zhang Is BU’s 2018 Innovator of the Year, First Woman Chosen
Xin Zhang | Via Boston University | October 24, 2018Cited for translational research on use of metamaterials in MRI, acoustic technologies Xin Zhang is well-known for her pioneering work with metamaterials in areas as diverse as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), downwell sensor technology for the oil industry, and noise-cancellation acoustics. A College of Engineering professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering, she […]
Celebrating Earl Bakken
Earl Bakken | Via Medtronic | October 22, 2018Medtronic co-founder Earl E. Bakken, a pioneer in medical technology whose inventions impacted the lives of millions of people around the world, passed away Sunday in Hawaii. He was 94 years old. “All of us at Medtronic are saddened today by the news of Earl’s passing,” said Omar Ishrak, chairman and CEO of Medtronic. “Earl […]
Cryptographic protocol enables greater collaboration in drug discovery
Bonnie Berger | Via MIT | October 18, 2018MIT researchers have developed a cryptographic system that could help neural networks identify promising drug candidates in massive pharmacological datasets, while keeping the data private. Secure computation done at such a massive scale could enable broad pooling of sensitive pharmacological data for predictive drug discovery. Datasets of drug-target interactions (DTI), which show whether candidate compounds […]
Probiotics and antibiotics create a killer combination
Robert Langer | Via MIT | October 17, 2018In the fight against drug-resistant bacteria, MIT researchers have enlisted the help of beneficial bacteria known as probiotics. In a new study, the researchers showed that by delivering a combination of antibiotic drugs and probiotics, they could eradicate two strains of drug-resistant bacteria that often infect wounds. To achieve this, they encapsulated the probiotic bacteria […]
Why do digital health startups keep failing?
Paul Yock | Via Fast Company | October 17, 2018The “move fast and break things” approach that works in tech doesn’t translate well to healthcare. Instead, digital health startups should try need-driven innovation. A decade ago, a wave of companies promised to transform people’s health by allowing them to track data about their eating, sleep, exercise, and other habits. One hot startup of that […]
Roderic I Pettigrew received the Spirit of the Heart Award
Rod Pettigrew | Via Association of Black Cardiologists | October 17, 2018Roderic I Pettigrew received the Spirit of the Heart Award for national leadership in health promotion. The award is given by the Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC) which works to “save the hearts and minds of a diverse community”. These awards were created to recognize those with extraordinary contributions in medicine, research, mentoring, public service, […]
National Academy of Medicine Honors Nicholas Peppas for Outstanding Service
Nicholas Peppas | Via National Academy of Medicine | October 15, 2018The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) honored three members today at its annual meeting for their outstanding service. The honorees are Elaine L. Larson, senior associate dean of scholarship and research, Anna C. Maxwell Professor of Nursing Research, and professor of epidemiology at Columbia University; Hedvig Hricak, chair of the department of radiology at Memorial […]
Connecting the dots of Alzheimer’s disease
Ellen Kuhl | Via Stanford University | October 15, 2018Some people may follow a football team, others may follow their favorite television streaming series. For Ellen Kuhl, PhD, a professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford, her passion lies in following proteins. In a recent Stanford news article, Kuhl explains how her team developed a computer simulation to track the spread of defective proteins in […]