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White House Honors Dr. Cato Laurencin with National Medal of Technology and Innovation
Cato Laurencin | Via UConn | May 19, 2016UConn’s Dr. Cato Laurencin was honored on May 19 at the White House by President Barack Obama with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the nation’s highest honor for technological achievement. The citation of Laurencin’s award read aloud during the medal ceremony was: For seminal work in the engineering of musculoskeletal tissues, especially for […]
Paul Krebsbach Named New Dean of UCLA Dentistry
Paul Krebsbach | Via UCLA | May 18, 2016Dr. Paul Krebsbach, one of the nation’s leading researchers in tissue engineering and stem cell biology and a respected academic leader, has been appointed dean of the UCLA School of Dentistry. Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh announced today that Krebsbach will become the eighth dean of UCLA Dentistry, effective June 30. He will […]
ENG Graduates Look to Bright Future Ahead
Kenneth Lutchen | Via Boston U. | May 17, 2016Sunshine from the warm, cloudless day penetrated the air of excitement inside the Track and Tennis Center, where faculty, staff, family and friends gathered to celebrate the 63rd commencement of 350 undergraduate students from the College of Engineering on May 14. Dean Kenneth Lutchen began the ceremony by acknowledging the challenges students had to face […]
Larry Mcintire Helping Ensure Scientists Have ‘voice’ In Washington
Larry McIntire | Via AAAS | May 17, 2016For Larry McIntire, biomedical engineering is where new discoveries get turned into products that help people. It’s a field that reaches across subjects—biology, chemistry, medicine—and one that often brings scientists nose-to-nose with regulatory agencies like the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA). “We have a lot of interest because of devices, therapeutics, and drugs, with […]
Larry Mcintire Supporting Aaas Efforts To Ensure ‘scientists And Engineers Have A Real Voice In Washington’
Larry McIntire | Via AAAS | May 17, 2016For Larry McIntire, biomedical engineering is where new discoveries get turned into products that help people. It’s a field that reaches across subjects—biology, chemistry, medicine—and one that often brings scientists nose-to-nose with regulatory agencies like the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA). “We have a lot of interest because of devices, therapeutics, and drugs, with […]
Cwru, Uhcmc To Partner Exclusively With Siemens Healthcare To Bring Mri Research Technique To Clinical Application
Mark Griswold | Via CWRU | May 17, 2016At the recent 24th annual meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) in Singapore, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals Case Medical Center and Siemens Healthcare announced an exclusive research partnership to further develop a quantitative imaging method known as Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF). University and hospital researchers and Siemens’ developers will […]
Sharmila Majumdar Awarded Gold Medal by Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Group
Sharmila Majumdar | Via UCSF | May 17, 2016Sharmila Majumdar, PhD, has been awarded the 2016 Gold Medal of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) for her innovative contributions to the development of quantitative imaging methods. Her research has potential for personalizing treatments for patients, and it is a significant step forward in setting up the precision medicine framework for […]
Printing Metal In Midair
Donald Ingber | Via Harvard | May 16, 2016“Flat” and “rigid” are terms typically used to describe electronic devices. But the increasing demand for flexible, wearable electronics, sensors, antennas, and biomedical devices has led a research team to innovate an eye-popping way of printing complex metallic architectures as though seemingly suspended in midair.The work was conducted by researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for […]
University Creates $1 Million Innovation Fund
Rory Cooper | Via Pitt Chronicle | May 16, 2016The University of Pittsburgh has dedicated $1 million in gap funding over the next two years to assist Pitt innovators who want to commercialize their research discoveries. Coordinated through the University’s Innovation Institute, the Chancellor’s Innovation Commercialization Funds will assist faculty and students with Pitt discoveries in several ways: identifying unmet needs in the market […]
Guiseppi-Elie Named Chair-Elect of AIMBE College of Fellows
Anthony Guiseppi-Elie | Via TAMU | May 13, 2016Anthony Guiseppi-Elie, TEES professor and head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been named chair-elect of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows. Guiseppi-Elie, a class of 2006 inductee of the College of Fellows for bio-smart materials based on electroconductive hydrogels, was elected to the […]
What’s Missing From Engineering and How to Solve It
Sangeeta Bhatia | Via TEDMED | May 12, 2016In her TEDMED talk, Harvard-MIT physician, bioengineer and entrepreneur Sangeeta Bhatia showed how miniaturization, through the convergence of engineering and medicine, is transforming health– specifically, through the promise of nanotechnology for early detection of cancer. She’s also been a huge advocate for the participation of women and girls in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics […]
When Do You Give Up on Treating a Child With Cancer?
Michael Loken | Via New York Times | May 12, 2016When Esther and Dan Levy’s son Andrew was 14 months old, he received a diagnosis of a kind of leukemia so rare that their medical team said getting it was like being bitten by a shark and struck by lightning at the same time. Leukemia, a cancer of those cells in the bone marrow that […]
Wheeler receives the prestigious Distinguished Service Award from the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Bruce Wheeler | Via U. Florida | May 11, 2016Congratulations to Dr. Bruce Wheeler, emeritus professor, in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering for receiving the prestigious Distinguished Service Award from the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), one of the world’s largest professional societies in bioengineering. This award is given annually to an individual “For outstanding service and […]
Radiology’s Mark Griswold Discusses How Hololens Can Transform Education
Mark Griswold | Via CWRU | May 11, 2016Could HoloLens’ augmented reality change how we study the human body? Mark Griswold, professor of radiology, discussed how HoloLens could transform education. “This is a curriculum that hasn’t drastically changed in more than 100 years, because there simply hasn’t been another way,” he said. “The mixed-reality of the HoloLens has the potential to revolutionize this […]
Guiseppi-Elie Named Chair-Elect of AIMBE’s College of Fellows
Anthony Guiseppi-Elie | Via AIMBE | May 10, 2016WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) named its 2016 Board of Directors at its 25th Annual Event, April 3-4, 2016 in Washington, DC. Anthony “Tony” Guiseppi-Elie, Sc.D., FRSC, FAIMBE, FIEEE, the head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, director of the Biomedical Engineering Division of the Texas A&M Engineering […]
Personalized Virtual Heart Can Predict the Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death
Natalia Trayanova | Via Johns Hopkins | May 10, 2016When electrical waves in the heart run amok, the results can be deadly. Current treatment for the condition, called arrhythmia, includes implanting a small defibrillator which senses the onset of arrhythmia and jolts the heart back to a normal rhythm. But a thorny question remains: How should doctors decide which patients truly need an invasive, […]
Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert Named New Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert | Via U. Texas Austin | May 10, 2016The Cockrell School of Engineering has named Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, an accomplished biomedical engineer and university administrator, as the next chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. Sakiyama-Elbert currently serves as vice dean for research at the Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science in St. Louis, where […]
‘Second Skin’ May Reduce Wrinkles, Eyebags, Scientists Say
Robert Langer | Via New York Times | May 9, 2016The idea sounds like fantasy: an invisible film that can be painted on your skin and give it the elasticity of youth. Bags under the eyes vanish in seconds. Wrinkles disappear. Scientists at Harvard and M.I.T. have discovered that it is not fantasy at all. Reporting on Monday in the journal Nature Materials on pilot […]
Gilda Barabino Awarded Honorary Degree by Xavier University
Gilda Barabino | Via Xavier | May 7, 2016Dr. Barabino is Berg Professor and Dean of The Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY). She holds appointments in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering and the Sophie Davis School of Medicine. She is a noted investigator in the areas of sickle cell disease, cellular and tissue […]