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Tom Chau Receives March of Dimes Canada Lifetime Achievement Award
Tom Chau | Via U. Toronto | June 15, 2016Professor Tom Chau (IBBME) has won the 2016 Jonas Salk Pioneer Award for his sustained scientific contributions to improving the lives of people with disabilities. Established in 1994, the award is presented annually by March of Dimes Canada to a Canadian scientist, physician or researcher who has made a new and outstanding contribution to prevent, […]
Distinguished Professor Dr. Bir Bhanu Named Inaugural Marlan and Rosemary Bourns Presidential Chair in Engineering
Bir Bhanu | Via UC Riverside | June 14, 2016Distinguished Professor Dr. Bir Bhanu has been appointed the inaugural Marlan and Rosemary Bourns Presidential Endowed Chair, a distinction of high honor within the UC system and affords mutual benefits to the university and the chair holder. Dr. Bhanu is the first founding faculty member of the Bourns College of Engineering and is the Founding […]
Zaman Lab’s Work on the Cover of Biophysical Journal
Muhammad Zaman | Via Boston U. | June 10, 2016Work by the Zaman Lab has been featured on the cover of Biophysical Journal. The article”A Computational Model of YAP/TAZ Mechanosensing” by Meng Sun, Fabian Spill, and BME Professor Muhammad Zaman has also been published in the June 6, 2016 issue.
Inside The Sci-Fi World Of Growing Human Tissue And Organs In The Lab
Robert Langer | Via STAT | June 8, 2016Inside a North Carolina lab, row upon row of plastic bioreactor bags pulsate gently to the beat of an artificial heart. Within each bag, a lab-forged blood vessel slowly expands, feeding off a primordial cocktail of vitamins and proteins. The blood vessels start as individual cells, placed inside a sinewy scaffold. Weeks later, they’ve grown […]
Peter Zandstra named University Professor, U of T’s Highest Academic Rank
Peter Zandstra | Via U. Toronto | June 3, 2016Peter Zandstra, professor in the Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering and Canada Research Chair in Stem Cell Bioengineering, has been appointed to the rank of University Professor. This is U of T’s highest academic rank, recognizing unusual scholarly achievement and pre-eminence in a particular field of knowledge. The number of such appointments is limited […]
Engineering Professor Honored for Commitment to Diversity in STEM
Wolfgang Fink | Via University of Arizona | June 2, 2016Congratulations to these recently honored employees. Wolfgang Fink, UA associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and Keonjian Chair in the College of Engineering, received the 2016 University Excellence in STEM Diversity award from UA Women in Science and Engineering, or WISE, at its annual banquet in Tucson on April 28. As faculty adviser to […]
UA Engineers Zero In on Ovarian Cancer
Jennifer Barton | Via U. Arizona | June 1, 2016University of Arizona researcher Jennifer Barton is leading a two-year, $1 million project funded by the National Cancer Institute to identify imaging biomarkers of ovarian cancer, the most deadly gynecological cancer in the United States. This work may enable the first effective screening system for ovarian cancer, said Barton, interim director of the UA’s BIO5 Institute. […]
Celator Parlays Leukemia Drug Data into $1.5B Buyout From Jazz Pharma
Lawrence Mayer | Via Xconomy | May 31, 2016All it takes to become an acquisition target in biotech is some promising data. Take Ewing, NJ, and Vancouver-based Celator Pharmaceuticals, which Jazz Pharmaceuticals just agreed to buy this morning for $1.5 billion. Celator (NASDAQ: CPXX) was formed in 1999 by a team led by Lawrence Mayer and Marcel Bally, both veterans of the British […]
Simple Attraction: U Of T Engineering Researchers Control Protein Release From Nanoparticles Without Encapsulation
Molly Shoichet | Via U. Toronto | May 27, 2016A U of T Engineering team has designed a simpler way to keep therapeutic proteins where they are needed for long periods of time. The discovery is a potential game-changer for the treatment of chronic illnesses or injuries that often require multiple injections or daily pills. For decades, biomedical engineers have been painstakingly encapsulating proteins […]
No. 1 From the Start
Shu Chien | Via UC San Diego | May 26, 2016Bioengineers at UC San Diego have helped us understand why atherosclerosis develops and how it is impacted by blood flow. They have pioneered the development of very thin, small and flexible sensors that stick to the skin and monitor vital signs, such as the brain activity of a newborn. They also developed injectable hydrogels that […]
Biomedical Engineering Headship To Be Named For Orthopedics Pioneer Dr. Dane A. Miller
Dane Miller | Via Purdue Exponent | May 25, 2016A gift from Mary Louise Miller, wife of the late engineer and entrepreneur Dr. Dane Miller, will name the headship of Purdue’s Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering as part of Ever True: The Campaign for Purdue University. As co-founder and later CEO of Biomet Inc. (now Zimmer Biomet), an orthopedic devices manufacturer in Warsaw, Indiana, […]
InCube, Pitt Building Device to Restore Bladder After Spinal Injury
Mir Imran | Via Xconomy | May 25, 2016San Antonio — There are obvious physical difficulties that people with spinal-cord injuries face. One that may not be top of mind, but can be both physically and emotionally taxing, is the inability to control their bladders, says Pratap Khanwilkar of San Antonio’s InCube Labs. InCube Labs is working with a researcher from the University […]
Researchers Discover Moving, Electrically “silent” Source Initiates Brain Waves
Dominique Durand | Via CWRU Daily | May 24, 2016Researchers at Case Western Reserve University discovered a new way that brain waves spread through the hippocampus—a possible step toward understanding and treating epilepsy. The researchers discovered a traveling spike generator that appears to move across the hippocampus—a part of the brain mainly associated with memory—and change direction, while generating brain waves. The generator itself, […]
This Is the Best Major For Every Wannabe CEO
Kenneth Lutchen | Via Fortune | May 24, 2016Secure the future of America’s leadership in innovation. “I want to be an engineer when I grow up. . .” That was the heartening sentiment in a thank you note I received from a fifth-grader after I spoke at my daughter’s class about engineering and the stories behind America’s most dynamic inventions. Once they learned […]
Rexnord Makes $1 Million Donation To Marquette to Launch Program in Business Fundamentals
Kristina Ropella | Via Fox News | May 24, 2016Marquette University’s Opus College of Engineering College of Business Administration have joined Milwaukee-based manufacturer to develop an immersive, four-week experience to give early career engineers business fundamentals. The new program, Bridge to Business for Engineers, is being launched through a $1 million gift from Rexnord. “Rexnord is making an excellent investment in our region’s future,” […]
National Medal of Science Recipient Rakesh Jain
Rakesh Jain | Via American Bazaar | May 21, 2016WASHINGTON, DC: This year’s National Medal of Science winner Rakesh K. Jain said he was thrilled to receive the prestigious award from President Barack Obama. “It’s an absolute thrill to receive this from President Obama,” he remarked from a general press podium outside of the White House just moments after the award ceremony. “He is […]
Dean Kamen Talks Houston & Building Robotics “Super Bowl” For Kids
Dean Kamen | Via Xconomy | May 20, 2016Houston—Dean Kamen’s inventions include the iBot, a powered wheelchair that can “walk;” the first portable insulin delivery system; and a robotic prosthetic arm made for the military as he built his firm Deka Research and Development. (Also, you may have heard of this other invention he had: the Segway.) Houston played a pivotal role in […]
Mark Humayun Receives the National Medal of Technology and Innovation
Mark Humayun | Via USC | May 20, 2016President Barack Obama awarded University Professor Mark Humayun, co-director of the USC Gayle and Edward Roski Eye Institute and director of the USC Institute for Biomedical Therapeutics, the nation’s highest award for achievement in technology during a ceremony at the White House. Humayun received the prestigious National Medal of Technology and Innovation four months after a […]
DeSimone Receives National Medal in White House Ceremony
Joseph DeSimone | Via NC State U | May 20, 2016At a Thursday, May 19 White House ceremony, Joseph DeSimone, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at NC State and Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Barack Obama. DeSimone won the award […]
Dr. Michael Boninger Expands Role at UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh
Michael Boninger | Via UPMC | May 19, 2016PITTSBURGH, May 19, 2016 – Michael Boninger, M.D., has been named UPMC’s vice president for medical affairs for Community Provider Services. Currently, Dr. Boninger serves as director of the UPMC Rehabilitation Institute and professor and chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. In his […]