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Fellowbook News

AIMBE Fellowbook collects news stories highlighting the members of the AIMBE College of Fellows. Read the latest stories, jump to the College Directory, or search below to find the newest research, awards, announcements and more for the leaders of the medical and biological engineering community.

 

 

Bridging the Gap

Christopher Chen | Via Boston U. | March 25, 2016

The world can be a dangerous place. With more than 41 million visits to the emergency department due to trauma in the U.S. each year, it is crucial to study the process of wound healing and how medical intervention might facilitate it. A study led by Professor Christopher Chen (BME), published inNature Communications, points to […]

Microsoft Pioneer Invests Big, Again, in Bioscience

Thomas Skalak | Via Science | March 23, 2016

The newly created Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group has selected four initial researchers—Jennifer Doudna of the University of California (UC), Berkeley, Ethan Bier of UC San Diego, James Collins of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and Bassem Hassan of the Brain and Spine Institute in Paris—to receive $1.5 million each to study topics […]

ENG Makes Highest-Ever Grade in US News Rankins

Kenneth Lutchen | Via Boston U. | March 22, 2016

The College of Engineering has earned its highest-ever ranking from US News & World Report, placing 35th among its peer American schools in the magazine’s latest rankings. It’s a two-slot advance from last year and a long jump from a decade ago, when the school placed 52nd, says Kenneth Lutchen, dean of ENG. Additionally, ENG’s biomedical engineering […]

Cynthia Reinhart-King, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite

Cynthia Reinhart-King | Via AIMBE | March 22, 2016

WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Cynthia Reinhart-King, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Reinhart-King was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For outstanding contributions in cellular and tissue mechanics […]

Moving Inventions Beyond the Lab

Christine Schmidt | Via U. Florida | March 21, 2016

Nerve transplants from a patient’s own body have a major drawback: The area where the donor nerve is taken loses feeling. Cadaver nerves eliminate the need for a donor site, but faced some obstacles of their own. A thousand miles apart, two scientists were tackling those hurdles from two different angles. UF biomedical engineer Christine […]

Institute for Systems Biology, Providence Team Up for Preventive Care

Leroy Hood | Via Xconomy | March 14, 2016

The principles and practices of scientific wellness and personalized medicine developed over the last 15 years at genomics pioneer Leroy Hood’s Institute for Systems Biology will get what Hood says is a first application in a large patient population, through an affiliation with Providence Health & Services. The 3.3 million Providence patients—in Alaska, California, Montana, […]

‘Person-on-a-chip’ — U of T engineers Create Lab-Grown Heart and Liver Tissue for Drug Testing and More

Milica Radisic | Via U. Toronto | March 7, 2016

Researchers at U of T Engineering have developed a new way of growing realistic human tissues outside the body. Their “person-on-a-chip” technology, called AngioChip, is a powerful platform for discovering and testing new drugs, and could eventually be used to repair or replace damaged organs. Professor Milica Radisic (IBBME, ChemE), graduate student Boyang Zhang and […]

Rebecca Kuntz Willits, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite

Rebecca Willits | Via AIMBE | March 7, 2016

WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Rebecca Kuntz Willits, Ph.D., Margaret F. Donovan Endowed Chair for Women in Engineering Professor of Biomedical Engineering Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, Biomedical Engineering, University of Akron, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Willits was nominated, reviewed, and […]

Ingrid H. Sarelius, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite

Ingrid Sarelius | Via AIMBE | March 7, 2016

WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Ingrid H. Sarelius, Ph.D., , , University of Rochester Medical Center, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Sarelius was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For pioneering intravital confocal microscopic imaging […]

InCube Labs Startup Fe3 Plans Iron-Delivering Patch For Anemia

Mir Imran | Via Xconomy | March 4, 2016

San Antonio — Mir Imran, the founder and CEO of InCube Labs, has more than 200 patents to his name and has created more than 20 companies through InCube, a healthcare-focused research and development business that invents new technology with the goal of spinning them into separate businesses. Maybe, then, it’s not surprising that Imran […]

Precision Medicine For Understudied Populations

Russ Altman | Via TEDMED | March 2, 2016

Precision medicine, which leverages a patient’s genetics to help make medical decisions, has the potential to revolutionize medicine. Its applications are numerous: from predicting who may have an adverse reaction to a medication, to allowing targeted therapies of cancer with particular mutations. In 2015, President Obama’s State of the Union announced an initiative to further […]

In Memoriam: USC Trustee, Entrepreneur Alfred E. Mann, 90

Alfred Mann | Via U. Southern California | February 26, 2016

USC Life Trustee Alfred E. Mann, a world-renowned humanitarian and entrepreneur who founded 17 companies in the aerospace and biomedical technology industries, died Feb. 25. He was 90.Throughout his distinguished career, Mann dedicated himself to developing technologies that dramatically improve patients’ lives. His companies produced and marketed products such as pacemakers, cochlear implants and retinal […]

Panos Pardalos to be inducted into AIMBE College of Fellows

Panos Pardalos | Via U. Florida | February 24, 2016

Panos Pardalos, a Genetics Institute faculty member, has been chosen by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering for induction into its College of Fellows. Pardalos, distinguished professor in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, is a Paul and Heidi Brown Preeminent Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering. He also serves as director for […]

Sinister Shock: ONR Researcher Studies How Explosive Shock Waves Harm the Brain

Michael Cho | Via Office of Naval Research | February 23, 2016

Today’s warfighters are outfitted with body armor strong enough to withstand shrapnel from a bomb or other explosive device. One debilitating threat from a blast, however, is a force they can’t see—the explosive shock wave itself. “Shock waves travel faster than the speed of sound,” said Dr. Timothy Bentley, a program manager in the Office […]

Lab-Grown Heart Cells To Improve Drug Safety

Milica Radisic | Via U. Toronto | February 22, 2016

Under a microscope at U of T Engineering, heart cells are pulsing together in a petri dish. For Professor Milica Radisic (IBBME, ChemE) and her team, it’s just another day in the lab. Although they are grown outside the body, the human tissues engineered in Radisic’s lab look and behave just like the real thing. […]

Not Every Drop of a Person’s Blood Is the Same, a Study Says

Rebecca Richards-Kortum | Via New York Times | February 22, 2016

As diagnostic tests rely on ever-tinier amounts of blood, some scientists are striking a note of caution. As it turns out, not all drops of blood are identical. Bioengineers at Rice University recently found that different drops from single fingerpricks on multiple subjects varied substantially on results for basic health measures like hemoglobin, white blood […]

Dobson’s paper highlighted in Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Jon Dobson | Via U. Florida | February 19, 2016

Two professors in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Engineering’s work has been highlighted in Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME). The goal of TBME is to publish original contributions in any area of biomedical engineering that report novel engineering methods with demonstrated biomedical significance. Congratulations to Jon Dobson, professor of biomedical engineering and Kyle […]

New Image Analytics May Offer Quick Guidance For Breast Cancer Treatment

Anant Madabhushi | Via Case THINK | February 18, 2016

CLEVELAND—For women with the most common type of breast cancer, a new way to analyze magnetic resonance images (MRI) data appears to reliably distinguish between patients who would need only hormonal treatment and those who also need chemotherapy, researchers from Case Western Reserve University report. The analysis may provide women diagnosed with estrogen positive-receptor (ER-positive) […]

TAXI Peptide Shuttles Protein Cargo Into Spinal Cord

Suzie Pun | Via U. Washington | February 17, 2016

Researchers have long sought to develop effective biologic drugs, such as peptides, proteins and nucleic acids, for treating motor neuron diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gerhrig’s disease. However, efforts to develop therapies for these diseases are complicated by the difficulty of bypassing the blood brain barrier. This selectively permeable […]