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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 […]
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 […]