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Fortune: Richards-Kortum among ‘World’s Greatest Leaders’
Rebecca Richards-Kortum | Via Rice U. | March 23, 2017Fortune magazine named Rice University global health pioneer Rebecca Richards-Kortum to its prestigious list of World’s 50 Greatest Leaders. The annual list, which was announced March 23, is packed with world-famous people, including Pope Francis, Melinda Gates, Joe Biden and Elon Musk. “I first saw the news on Twitter, and I thought, ‘Wait, what? That can’t […]
Schmidt Named President-Elect of AIMBE
Christine Schmidt | Via U. Florida | March 21, 2017Christine E. Schmidt, Ph.D., Pruitt Family Professor and chair of the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biological Engineering, has been named president-elect of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Schmidt was inducted at AIMBE’s annual event held March 19-20, 2017 in Washington D.C. She will begin her term as president in […]
Grove School Dean Gilda Barabino Receives Top AIMBE Honor
Gilda Barabino | Via CUNY | March 21, 2017Gilda A. Barabino, Berg Professor and Dean of The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, is the winner of the 2017 Pierre Galletti Award presented by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. AIMBE’s highest individual honor, it recognizes a member’s contributions to public awareness of medical and biological engineering, and […]
Duke Engineering Dean Discusses Confronting and Overcoming Biases
Ravi Bellamkonda | Via Duke | March 21, 2017Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering Dean Ravi Bellamkonda explains why diverse university settings can be an important catalyst in helping society confront and overcome biases.
Xiaoliang Zhang, Ph.D. Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Xiaoliang Zhang | Via AIMBE | March 20, 2017WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of Xiaoliang Zhang, Ph.D., Professor of Radiology and Bioengineering, UC Berkeley and UCSF Joint Bioengineering Program, and Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Zhang was nominated, reviewed, elected by […]
Alumnus Develops First Blood Test for Autism
Juergen Hahn | Via U. Texas Austin | March 20, 2017An algorithm based on levels of metabolites found in a blood sample can accurately predict whether a child is on the Autism spectrum of disorder (ASD), based upon a recent study. The algorithm, developed by Texas ChE alumnus Juergen Hahn (Ph.D. ’02) and researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is the first physiological test for autism […]
Replacing Damaged ‘hair’ Cells May Help Treat Hearing Loss
| Via Harvard | March 15, 2017Inside a bony structure that spirals like a snail shell in a human’s inner ear, roughly 15,000 “hair” cells receive, translate, and then ship sound signals to the brain. Damage to these cells from excessive noise, chronic infections, antibiotics, certain drugs, or the simple passing of time can lead to irreparable hearing loss. Harvard Stem […]
UW Center For Dialysis Innovation Gets $15m Grant To Improve Dialysis Technology
| Via Geekwire | March 13, 2017Dialysis can be a life-saving treatment for the millions of people across the globe who face kidney failure. But despite the importance of this treatment, the technology behind it is still essentially the same as when the process was pioneered at the University of Washington in Seattle in the early ’60s. Now, a new UW center […]
Engineering Faculty Among Inaugural Class of Texas A&M’s Presidential Impact Fellows
Arul Jayaraman | Via Texas A&M | March 10, 2017Five engineering faculty members were part of the inaugural class of Presidential Impact Fellows, which were recently announced by Texas A&M University president Michael K. Young. The 2017 honorees from the Texas A&M College of Engineering are Dr. Melissa A. Grunlan, Dr. Arum Han, Dr. Arul Jayaraman, Dr. Raymundo Arroyave and Dr. Zachary Grasley. “Today, […]
Brain-Training App Creators Join In The Genetics Game
| Via Harvard | March 9, 2017Producers of the popular online brain-training program Lumosity will collaborate with Harvard researchers to investigate the relationship between genetics and memory, attention, and reaction speed.Scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and the Harvard Medical School Personal Genome Project (PGP) announced today a new collaboration with Lumos Labs that will leverage the unique […]
New Material Regrows Bone
| Via Northwestern | March 8, 2017A team of researchers repaired a hole in a mouse’s skull by regrowing “quality bone,” a breakthrough that could drastically improve the care of people who suffer severe trauma to the skull or face.The work by a joint team of Northwestern Engineering and University of Chicago researchers was a resounding success, showing that a potent […]
Jeffrey R. Capadona, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Jeffrey Capadona | Via AIMBE | March 8, 2017WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Jeffrey R. Capadona, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate Education / Research Health Scientist, Biomedical Engineering / Rehabilitation Research & Discovery, Case Western Reserve University / Department of Veterans Affair, to its College of Fellows. Dr. […]
Maria Jose Alonso, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Maria Alonso | Via AIMBE | March 7, 2017WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Maria Jose Alonso, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. Pharmacology, Pharmacy And Pharmaceutical Technology, Cimus Research Center, University of Santiago De Compostela, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Alonso was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College […]
Bikramjit Basu, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Bikramjit Basu | Via AIMBE | March 7, 2017WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Bikramjit Basu, Ph.D., Professor, Materials Research Center, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Basu was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For outstanding contributions impacting translational […]
Cory J. Berkland, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Cory Berkland | Via AIMBE | March 7, 2017WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Cory J. Berkland, Ph.D., Solon E. Summerfield Distinguished Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, The University of Kansas, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Berkland was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers […]
Rafael Carbunaru, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Rafael Carbunaru | Via AIMBE | March 7, 2017WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Rafael Carbunaru, Ph.D., Vice President of Research and Development, Neuromodulation Division, Boston Scientific Corporation, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Carbunaru was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For outstanding contributions […]
Xiaoyuan Chen, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Xiaoyuan Chen | Via AIMBE | March 7, 2017WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Xiaoyuan Chen, Ph.D., Senior Investigator and Lab Chief, Laboratory of Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Chen was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of […]
Omolola Eniola-Adefeso, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Omolola Eniola-Adefeso | Via AIMBE | March 7, 2017WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Omolola Eniola-Adefeso, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Eniola-Adefeso was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For outstanding contributions to the […]
Daniel P. Ferris, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Daniel Ferris | Via AIMBE | March 7, 2017WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Daniel P. Ferris, Ph.D., Professor, School of Kinesiology and Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Ferris was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For […]
Charles Alan Gersbach, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
Charles Gersbach | Via AIMBE | March 7, 2017WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Charles Alan Gersbach, Ph.D., Rooney Family Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Gersbach was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows […]