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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.
Human-Powered Vehicles and Tissue Engineering
Milica Radisic | Via U. Toronto | April 1, 2016Professor Milica Radisic (IBBME, ChemE) shared several discoveries from her lab, including a new scaffold that supports the growth of realistic heart and liver tissues outside the body. Such tissues provide an ideal platform for testing new drugs for side effects, but the hope is that one day they will allow for the replacement of damaged […]
Professor Michael Sefton receives European Society for Biomaterials International Award
Michael Sefton | Via U. Toronto | April 1, 2016University of Toronto biomedical engineering Professor Michael Sefton has been named the 2016 recipient of the International Award from the European Society for Biomaterials. The award recognizes his scientific profile, major contributions to the field of biomaterials and longstanding active collaboration with the European scientific community. Sefton joins an elite list of internationally renowned recipients, including […]
Endowing Ability in Computers and Classes
Wolfgang Fink | Via University of Arizona | March 30, 2016Planetary exploration and medical diagnostics might seem like topics for researchers in two different fields. But for Wolfgang Fink, the connection between the two is about equipping machines to make judgments normally entrusted to people. “You can’t take the experts everywhere,” Fink says. Consider extreme space environments, where it’s dangerous and costly to send astronauts. […]
Paper Diagnostic Tests Could Save Thousands of Lives
Paul Yager | Via U. Washington | March 29, 2016An article published online March 25 in Scientific American reports on efforts by UW Bioengineering Professor Paul Yager and other researchers to develop paper-based disease diagnostics technology. The tests being developed by Dr. Yager and others offer a fast, inexpensive, highly sensitive and simple testing platform that anyone can use, anywhere, without needing access to […]
Bridging the Gap
Christopher Chen | Via Boston U. | March 25, 2016The 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, 2016The 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, 2016The 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, 2016WASHINGTON, 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, 2016Nerve 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, 2016The 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, […]
AxoGen Featured at UF Celebration of Innovation
Christine Schmidt | Via U. Florida | March 11, 2016A Celebration of Innovation, UF’s 10th annual startup showcase, took place at the Hilton Hotel on March 8, 2016. A Celebration of Innovation highlighted many startup companies commercializing the latest life science, medical device and cutting-edge technologies generated as a result of the more than $700 million in research conducted annually at UF. As part […]
‘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, 2016Researchers 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, 2016WASHINGTON, 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, 2016WASHINGTON, 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, 2016San 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, 2016Precision 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, 2016USC 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, 2016Panos 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, 2016Today’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, 2016Under 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. […]