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UD biomedical engineering chair to lead national organization
Dawn Elliott | Via U Daily | September 13, 2017As president of the Biomedical Engineering Society, Dawn Elliott will focus on education Dawn Elliott, chair of the University of Delaware’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been elected president of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). Founded in 1968, this professional society for biomedical engineering and bioengineering has more than 7,000 members. As president, Elliott plans […]
Texas A&M System to lead new NSF Engineering Research Center
Gerard Coté | Via Texas A&M | September 12, 2017A Texas A&M University System-led consortium of industry, government partners and universities has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center (ERC) on Precise Advanced Technologies and Health Systems for Underserved Populations (PATHS-UP), with the goal of addressing the grand challenge of overcoming the human and economic burden of diabetes and heart […]
Alzheimer’s disease biomarker identified across test sites
Bharat Biswal | Via EurekAlert! | September 12, 2017New Rochelle, NY, September 12, 2017–A new study has demonstrated the potential to use a frequency distribution-based index of brain functional connectivity as a biomarker for detecting Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). These new findings, which show the index of functional connectivity to have good accuracy across databases and test sites, are published […]
Engineering Research Center Will Help Expand Use of Therapies Based on Living Cells
Krishnendu Roy | Via Georgia Tech | September 12, 2017The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded nearly $20 million to a consortium of universities to support a new engineering research center (ERC) that will work closely with industry and clinical partners to develop transformative tools and technologies for the consistent, scalable and low-cost production of high-quality living therapeutic cells. Such cells could be used […]
Gecko Biomedical receives CE Mark Approval for SETALUM™ Sealant
Jeff Karp | Via Gecko Biomedical | September 11, 2017Gecko Biomedical (“Gecko”), a medical device company developing innovative polymers to support tissue reconstruction, announced today that it has received CE Mark approval for its SETALUM™ Sealant allowing the company to market its technology in Europe. The SETALUM™ Sealant is a biocompatible, bioresorbable and on-demand activated sealant usable in wet and dynamic environments as an […]
Milica Radisic Named Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Milica Radisic | Via University of Toronto | September 7, 2017Professors Reza Iravani (ECE) and Milica Radisic (IBBME/ChemE) have been elected fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) on the basis of their exceptional contributions to scholarship in their fields. The RSC’s mission is to recognize scholarly, research and artistic excellence, to advise governments and organizations, and to promote a culture of knowledge and […]
Pushing Science and Engineering to Create New Soft Materials
Ashutosh Chilkoti | Via Washington University in St. Louis | September 6, 2017Engineering new materials holds enormous potential to improve and advance the global community. Breakthroughs in medicine, defense and clean energy could be achieved by designing polymeric materials with a whole host of abilities and properties. To push this emerging field forward, the National Science Foundation (NSF) set up an initiative called Designing Materials to Revolutionize […]
Pushing Science and Engineering to Create New Soft Materials
Rohit Pappu | Via Washington University in St. Louis | September 6, 2017Engineering new materials holds enormous potential to improve and advance the global community. Breakthroughs in medicine, defense and clean energy could be achieved by designing polymeric materials with a whole host of abilities and properties. To push this emerging field forward, the National Science Foundation (NSF) set up an initiative called Designing Materials to Revolutionize […]
Researchers Developing Signal Processing Techniques to Identify Gut Microbial Biomarkers of Colon Cancer
Arul Jayaraman | Via Texas A&M | September 4, 2017An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Texas A&M University has been awarded a Division of Computing and Communication Foundations grant by the National Science Foundation to develop a gut-microbial investigation model that can identify critical dietary risk factors that cause colorectal cancer. The three-year, $350,000 project is a direct outcome of Texas A&M Engineering Experiment […]
American Health Council Names Dr. William Federspiel, PhD, to Education Board
William Federspiel | Via Globe News Wire | September 1, 2017NEW YORK, Sept. 01, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Dr. William Federspiel, William Kepler Whiteford Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh, has been selected to join the Education Board at the American Health Council. He will be sharing his knowledge and expertise in Healthcare Education, Workforce Development, Business, Leadership, Management, Chemistry, Biology, Biomedical Engineering, […]
Etta Pisano Named ACR Center for Research and Innovation Chief Science Officer
Etta Pisano | Via 24x7 Magazine | September 1, 2017The American College of Radiology (ACR) has announced the appointment of Etta D. Pisano, MD, as chief science officer of the ACR Center for Research and Innovation. Pisano’s career has led to academic appointments including: founding chief of breast imaging in the department of radiology and vice dean for academic affairs at the University of […]
Wolfgang Fink: Distributed autonomous platform for robotic planetary exploration
Wolfgang Fink | Via SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics | August 22, 2017An interview from SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing 2017. Read the full article at SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.
Mason Welcomes New Bioengineering Chair and Eminent Scholar
Michael Buschmann | Via George Mason University | August 22, 2017Michael Buschmann joined George Mason University on Aug. 1 as Eminent Scholar and chair of the Department of Bioengineering. His groundbreaking work in the field of tissue regeneration meant that Michael Buschmann was no stranger to tantalizing job offers. But it was the vast possibilities he saw in George Mason University that captivated him most, […]
Predicting Brain Surgery Outcomes
Adam W. Anderson | Via Vanderbilt University | August 18, 2017For patients with a common type of epilepsy known as temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), the only treatment choices are anti-seizure drugs or surgery to remove the focus of the seizures in part of the brain known as the hippocampus. Of those patients who have surgery, only about 60 to 70 percent will remain seizure-free after […]
Teresa Woodruff named dean of The Graduate School
Teresa Woodruff | Via Northwestern University | August 18, 2017Also assuming role of associate provost for graduate education, effective Sept. 1 EVANSTON – Teresa K. Woodruff, the Thomas J. Watkins Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and director of the Women’s Health Research Institute at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, has been named dean of The Graduate School and associate provost for graduate education […]
Wyss-developed Antifouling Coating a Boon to Business and Environment
Donald Ingber | Via Harvard University | August 17, 2017It all began with a bet. At a conference in Italy in 2013, Nicolas Vogel, then a postdoctoral fellow in Joanna Aizenberg’s lab at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), gave a talk about the group’s slippery liquid-infused porous […]
New Machine-learning Program Shows Promise for Early Alzheimer’s Diagnosis
Anant Madabhushi | Via Case Western Reserve | August 16, 2017A new machine-learning program developed by researchers at Case Western Reserve University appears to outperform other methods for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease before symptoms begin to interfere with everyday living, initial testing shows. More than 5 million Americans may have Alzheimer’s disease, according to estimates, and the numbers are growing as the population ages. The disease […]
Injectable Tissue Patch Could Help Repair Damaged Organs
Milica Radisic | Via University of Toronto | August 14, 2017A team of U of T Engineering researchers is mending broken hearts with an expanding tissue bandage a little smaller than a postage stamp. Repairing heart tissue destroyed by a heart attack or medical condition with regenerative cells or tissues usually requires invasive open-heart surgery. But now biomedical engineering Professor Milica Radisic (IBBME, ChemE, Toronto […]
The Best Place to Treat Type 1 Diabetes Might Be Just under Your Skin
Michael Sefton | Via University of Toronto | August 14, 2017A group of U of T researchers have demonstrated that the space under our skin might be an optimal location to treat type 1 diabetes (T1D). The new study, led by researchers in the Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering (IBBME), involved transplanting healthy pancreatic cells under the skin to produce insulin for blood glucose […]
BioMed SA Recognizes Leonard Pinchuk, Ph.D., D.Sc. with 2017 Award for Innovation in Healthcare and Bioscience for his transformative biomaterial technologies benefitting hundreds of millions of patients globally
Leonard Pinchuk, Ph.D. | Via BioMed SA | August 2, 2017Dr. Pinchuk’s innovations include the first commercially successful angioplasty balloon catheter, a market-leading drug-eluting stent and a novel microshunt that prevents the progression of vision loss caused by glaucoma. (SAN ANTONIO) August 7, 2017 – BioMed SA, the non-profit corporation founded in 2005 to help promote and grow San Antonio’s leading industry, healthcare and bioscience, […]