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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 […]
Rebecca Richards-Kortum Wins AIMBE Pierre Galletti Award
Rebecca Richards-Kortum | Via Photonics | May 6, 2016Houston, May 6, 2016 — The American Institute for Medical and Biomedical Engineering (AIMBE) presented its highest honor, the 2016 Pierre Galletti Award, to Rice University bioengineer Rebecca Richards-Kortum. Rebecca Richards-Kortum has been awarded the 2016 Pierre Galletti Award for her contributions to global health care and bioengineering technology. Richards-Kortum was acknowledged for her “global […]
Science AMA Series: I’m Gang Zheng, Senior Scientist
Gang Zheng | Via Reddit | May 6, 2016Hi Reddit! I’m Gang Zheng, Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Center in Toronto, Canada. Our lab focused on creating clinically usable nanotechnology to combat cancer. Inspired by how plants use porphyrins to do photosynthesis, our colourful porphyrins self-assemble into biodegradable nanoparticles called “porphysomes”, which target cancer. Once they’re there, the now-coloured tumours can […]
Finding Zika One Paper Disc at a Time
James Collins | Via PHYS.org | May 6, 2016An international, multi-institutional team of researchers led by synthetic biologist James Collins, Ph.D. at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, has developed a low-cost, rapid paper-based diagnostic system for strain-specific detection of the Zika virus, with the goal that it could soon be used in the field to screen blood, urine, […]
“Back to Health” – Lori Setton’s Collaborative Research
Lori Setton | Via Wash. U St. Louis | May 6, 2016Maybe it happened after you hauled a house’s worth of boxes to and from a moving van while helping a friend move. Maybe it startled you after a seemingly innocuous fender bender. Or maybe you noticed it after spending day in and day out — for years — hunched over your laptop keyboard. Whatever the […]
Albert Folch’s “Art on the Nanoscale and Beyond” featured on Advanced Materials Cover
Albert Folch | Via Washington U. | April 27, 2016A review article recently published by UW Bioengineering Associate Professor Albert Folch and collaborators was featured as the cover article of the March 2016 issue of Advanced Materials. In “Art on the Nanoscale and Beyond,” Dr. Folch and collaborators discuss applications of nano and microscale materials in art, and the medium’s utility in communicating science to […]
Cancer Treatment Goes Local
Mark Grinstaff | Via Boston U. | April 25, 2016When it comes to treating cancer, one BU researcher is going local. Professor Mark Grinstaff (BME, MSE, Chemistry, MED) recently published two studies that offer new approaches to the treatment of two intractable cancers—mesothelioma and esophageal cancer—by delivering therapeutic agents directly to the tumor site. “Local drug delivery allows us to maximize drug dose at […]
Keasling Selected For Membership in American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Jay Keasling | Via Daily Cal | April 22, 2016Nine UC Berkeley professors will join 234 other campus faculty in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, it was announced Wednesday. The nine new members are part of a class of 213 scholars, scientists, artists and leaders selected this year for their contributions to their disciplines. The new members were chosen by current ones, […]
Joshua Jacobs, M.D. Elected as ABOS Director
Joshua Jacobs | Via Ortho | April 20, 2016The Board of Directors of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS) recently elected Joshua Jacobs, M.D., Chairman of Orthopedic Surgery at Rush University Medical Center, as a new director. He begins service on the Board immediately. Dr. Jacobs completed his orthopedic residency training at the Combined Harvard Orthopaedic Residency Program in Boston and his […]
Researchers Discover Moving, Electrically “silent” Source Initiates Brain Waves
Dominique Durand | Via Case THINK | April 20, 2016Brain waves that spread through the hippocampus are initiated by a method not seen before—a possible step toward understanding and treating epilepsy, according to researchers at Case Western Reserve University. 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 […]